SprachLabor: Laboratory for Speech Studies
The Laboratory for Speech Studies (SprachLabor) connects theoretical and experimental linguistic research. We focus mostly on Romance languages.
The laboratory also serves as a forum for discussion, offering colloquia and reading groups on a regular basis.
It belongs to the network of linguistic laboratories at the Interdisciplinary Centre European Languages.
Research topics
Phonology
- Intonation and Pragmatics
- Variation in intonation
- Variation and evolution of word accent
- Prosody of function words
Semantics
- Semantics of motion verbs
- Verbal argument structure in language contact
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Semantics of nominalizations
Contact linguistics
- Spanish, Portugese and French outside of Europe
- Prosody of Spanish in contact with Quechua
- Prosody of French in contact with Vietnamese
- Motion verbs in Romance based creole languages