Project management
This project aims to investigate how listeners grow accustomed to non-native varieties of their native language.
While most extant research on adaptation to regional and non-native varieties focuses on pronunciation, our focus is on listeners’ adaptation to non-native morphosyntax. Specifically, we will investigate if and how listeners pick up on the fact that a morphosyntactic cue for interpreting sentences as Subject-Verb-Object or Object-Verb-Subject (viz., German case-marking) is...
Information structure in bilingual speakers
Cross-linguistic influences and language dominance
Project management
Swiss National Science Foundation, project funding, project no. 176338
The aim of the project is to examine the different ways in which French, German and Italian speakers achieve cohesion in narrative spoken discourse. Our approach is derived from theories and methods developed in research on information structure.
Giulia Berchio
- Berchio, G. (2017). La promozione dell’italiano in Germania. Aggiornamenti, 10. ADI e V. C/O Sprachenzentrum der Universität Bamberg, Bamberg, S. 37-43.
- Berchio, G., & Berthele, R. (2022). Struttura informativa e dominanza linguistica: Operazionalizzazione nell’ambito del bilinguismo individuale italiano/svizzero tedesco. In M. Casoni (Ed.), Linguisti in contatto 3. Ricerche di linguistica italiana in Svizzera e sulla Svizzera (pp. 173–188). OLSI.
Naomi Shafer
Shafer, Naomi (2018): Varietäten und Varianten verstehen lernen: Zum Umgang mit Standardvariation in Deutsch als Fremdsprache. Göttingen: Universitätsverlag. Online (View Document): https://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-978-3-86395-383-6.