Britta Stolterfoht

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Britta Stolterfoht (born August 21, 1970 in Stuttgart ) is a German linguist and psycholinguist . She is Professor of German Linguistics / Psycholinguistics at the University of Tübingen .

Life

Britta Stolterfoht attended the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart . From 1990 to 1999 she studied German, Scandinavian studies, theater studies, philosophy and psychology at the Free University of Berlin . In 1999 she obtained her master's degree in linguistics, philosophy and psychology. From 2000 to 2004 she was a doctoral candidate in the neuropsychology department at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Neurosciences in Leipzig and an associated member of the graduate college “Universality and Diversity: Linguistic Structures and Processes” at the University of Leipzig . They received his doctorate in 2004 at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Leipzig Dr. phil.

During 2005, Stolterfoht was visiting professor at the Department of Linguistics and Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, USA. From January to September 2006 she worked at the Institute of Linguistics of the University of Leipzig, subsequently at the University of Tübingen as a Research Associate or Assistant Professor . In 2010 she was initially appointed a substitute professor and then until 2016 the junior professorship for German linguistics / psycholinguistics. In the 2016/17 winter semester she became a full professor for German linguistics / psycholinguistics at the University of Tübingen.

Stolterfoht's main focus in psycholinguistics is language understanding , which she examines with regard to the processing of arguments and adjuncts , syntactic , semantic and pragmatic processes as well as information-structural and prosodic factors. Her methods include reaction time measurements , event-related brain potentials (EKPs) and eye movement measurements .

Awards

  • 2005 Postdoctoral fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a one-year research stay at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
  • 2003 Jerrold J. Katz Young Scholar Award, 16th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Publications (selection)

monograph

  • 2005: Processing word order variations and ellipses: The interplay of syntax and information structure during sentence comprehension . Leipzig: MPI Series in Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

Editing

  • 2012: Empirical Approaches to Linguistic Theory: Studies in Meaning and Structure (together with S. Featherston). Berlin: De Gruyter.

Articles in magazines and compilations

  • 2019: B. Stolterfoht, H. Gauza, M. Störzer: Incrementality in Processing Complements and Adjuncts: Construal Revisited . In: K. Carlson, C. Clifton, Jr., J. Fodor (Eds.): Grammatical Approaches to Language Processing. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics , vol 48. Berlin: Springer International Publishing, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-030-01563-3_12 .
  • 2013: M. Störzer, B. Stolterfoht: Syntactic Base Positions for Adjuncts? Psycholinguistic Studies on Frame and Sentence Adverbials . In: Questions and Answers in Linguistics , 1 (2), pp. 57-72, link .
  • 2007: B. Stolterfoht, L. Frazier, C. Clifton: Adverbs and sentence topics in processing English . In: S. Featherston, W. Sternefeld (eds.): Roots - Linguistics in Search of its Evidential Base . Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 361–374.
  • 2007: B. Stolterfoht, AD Friederici, K. Alter, A. Steube: Processing focus structure and implicit prosody: differential ERP effects . In: Cognition , 104, pp. 565-590, PMID 16989798 .
  • 2004: B. Stolterfoht, M. Bader: Focus structure and the processing of word order variations in German . In: A. Steube (Ed.): Information Structure: Theoretical and Empirical Aspects . Berlin: De Gruyter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Processing Word Order Variations and Ellipses: The Interplay of Syntax and Information Structure during Sentence Comprehension . (PDF) Dissertation, Philological Faculty of the University of Leipzig; accessed on May 23, 2019
  2. ↑ Britta Stolterfoht . stayfriends.de, accessed on May 23, 2019
  3. ↑ Britta Stolterfoht . University of Tübingen, accessed on July 3, 2019
  4. ^ Young Scholar Award . Conference on Human Sentence Processing (2008). Memento from the Internet Archive of March 21, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Stolterfoht, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist, psycholinguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart