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Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz / Fachbereich Linguistik, Universität Konstanz. Posts in English and German.

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03/06/2026

Department Colloquium in June 2026

29/05/2026

May 2026 publications by Members of the Linguistic Department:

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to "Diachronic and Historical Linguistics" is now out, containing several contributions by current and former Konstanz linguists, including:

* Joel Wallenberg, Henri Kauhanen, George Walkden, Caroline Heycock: Grammar Competition and Variational Learning
* Regine Eckardt: Pragmatic Strengthening and Conventionalized Implicature
* Henri Kauhanen: Propagation of Change: Computational Models
* Chiara Gianollo: Semantic Universals
* Holly Kennard, Aditi Lahiri: At the Interfaces: Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Sources of Phonological Change
(online access)
Andreou, M., Lampri, S., Marinis, T., & Peristeri, E. (2025). Bilingualism effects in Metaphor and Simile Comprehension and Production in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, "Autism Research", 18 (3), 632–647. (online access)

Bentea, A. & Marinis, T. (2025). Complex syntactic structures in the heritage language vs. the majority language: A comprehension study with Romanian-German bilinguals. Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics (BWPL) 27 (1), 21-44. (online access)

Durrleman, S. & Marinis, T. (2025). Morphosyntax in autism. In: Novogrodsky, R., Perovic, A., Prévost, P., Schaeffer, J., & Tuller, L. (Eds). "Language in autism". Wiley Blackwell.

Ferin, M., Marinis, T., & Kupisch, T. (2025). The acquisition of Italian rhetorical questions in bilingual children. "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition", 28 (1), 1-14. (online acces)

Marinis, T. (2025). Behavioural Measures of Bilingual Processing and Comprehension. In: Chapelle, C. A. (Ed). "The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics". Wiley Blackwell. (online access)

Paspali, A., Marinis, T. & Alexiadou, A (2025): When morphology is not enough: The acquisition of voice in monolingual Greek children and bilingual children with Greek as a heritage language, "Language Acquisition", 2 (3), 297-327. (online access)

Patra, A., Bose, A. and Marinis, T. (2025-online). Cognate Picture Naming in Bilingual Aphasia. "Clinic

18/05/2026

in May 2026

🗣️On May 8th, Dr. Clara Fridman spoke at a workshop on Inter- and Multicultural Communication at the University of Vic (Spain).

🗣️At the conference Prosody at the crossroads of disciplinary pathways, held in Grenoble, France, 21st-22nd May 2027, Nicole Dehé and Marieke Einfeldt will present a talk titled Intonation and voice quality in Icelandic wh-exclamatives.

🗣️Mila Freiseis, Tianyi Zhao and Tina Bögel have been accepted to present at the Speech Prosody Conference 2026, which will take place from 26th to 29th May 2026 in Philadelphia. They will be giving a poster presentation titled Signalling language redundancy: The acoustic salience of in/definite articles in German.

🗣️As well Tianyi Zhao, Alice Turk and Tina Bögel will present a poster Effects of lexical frequency and semantic priming on durational patterns in German at the Speech Prosody Conference 2026, 26th-29th May at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

🗣️Marc Meisezahl and George Walkden will be giving a talk on their work on Complementation in the history of English at the RTG/LinG Colloquium in Göttingen on 27th May 2026.

15/05/2026

It's Back!
For all linguistics students: Enjoy some coffee, tea, and cookies with other linguistics students, hosted by your diversiTEAM. Come by and hang out on Wednesday, the 20.5. between 15:00 and 17:00 in the Linguistics common room (G119)!

10/05/2026

With the conclusion of our first workshop on sociocognition in multilingual communication. We are excited to introduce the first official post for the SFB 1760 project Silence, Noise, and Signal in Language (SiNoSi). The link to the full article below: https://sinosi.substack.com/p/giving-silence-and-noise-the-linguistic

06/05/2026

Department Colloquium in May

05/05/2026

April 2026 publications by Members of the Linguistic Department:

📝Tamara Rathcke and Massimiliano Canzi published a new article in "Scientific Reports", titled Individual differences in musical melody perception moderate the speech-to-song illusion in Mandarin Chinese listeners.

📝 Riegger, Chiara. 2026. Old Saxon Vowel Insertion, „Journal of Germanic Linguistics“

📝 Schwarzer, Luise. 2026. The law and order of selection-violating coordination: German DP-CP-coordination is not sensitive to linear or temporal order. "Glossa: a journal of general linguistics"

30/04/2026

Congratulations to Professor Dr. Nicole Dehé for making the front page of the 🎉🎉🎉🎉.

The feature highlights her research on the Icelandic heritage in Manitoba, tracing its migration to the late-19th century. Raising the question, "How much does a language change across generations?"

Her latest study focuses on preaspiration and word stress.

Congratulations again!

29/04/2026

April's speaking engagements across Europe:

🗣️Anna Czypionka presented at the Communication and Neurodiversity Conference (April 17th 2026, University of Oslo, Norway): Autism-related measures reveal systematic interindividual variation in language processing among neurotypical speakers.

🗣️Aylin Coşkun Kunduz gave an oral presentation at the "18th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition" (GASLA-18) that will take place in Cambridge, U.K. from Thursday 16th to Saturday 18th April 2026. The title of the talk is Reactivation of Turkish morphosyntax in Turkish-American and Turkish-German returnees.

🗣️Luise Schwarzer presented a poster titled Solving Hartman’s puzzle at GLOW48, at the University of Siena, 21st-23rd April 2026.

🗣️Anna Czypionka with Pauline Wolfer, Franziska Baumeister, Natalia Mitrofanova, Sergey Minor, Jean-Marie Annoni, Evelina Leivada, Antonella Sorace and Stephanie Durrleman gave a talk titled The interplay of linguistic distance and exposure entropy in bilingual children’s verbal fluency task performance at the Bilingualism Matters Symposium, April 28th - 30th 2026 in Milan (Italy).

22/04/2026

This year's Erasmus+ programme took the Konstanz students to Tromsø, Norway! The intensive 7-day course took place earlier this month in collaboration with the Arctic University of Tromsø, the University of Iceland, and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

This course offers an in-depth introduction to the theories and models of first, second, third, and multilingual language acquisition. We will explore topics related to language contact, such as progressive and reverse cross-linguistic influence, the effects of exposure and age, language attrition, metalinguistic awareness, and phenomena related to language distance. For instance, we will consider whether multilinguals who speak closely related varieties (e.g., dialects) differ from those who speak more distantly related varieties (e.g., languages from different language families).

Additionally, the course will examine multilingual contexts involving both globally dominant and globally less widespread languages, with a particular focus on how L2 English influences the vocabulary and grammar of domestically dominant but globally smaller L1s. We will analyze a range of multilingual scenarios, including heritage language acquisition, second and third language acquisition, and language combinations involving English, Icelandic, German, Polish, and Norwegian. The course will also delve into neurolinguistics, exploring the cognitive and neurological effects of multilingualism on the brain.

Congrats to all participants, and check out the photos!

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