Conceptual shifts: Psycholinguistic evidence (C03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Human Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 192776181

Based on the evidence on CT-shifts obtained so far, C03 will study the precise nature of the post-lexical facilita-tion of NP formation in the case of CT-congruent compared to incongruent NPs by investigating the processing of such NPs embedded in sentences providing a situational context. Corresponding frame-theoretical work will be conducted in collaboration with A01. C03 will furthermore investigate in a word learning paradigm whether the categorization of count vs. mass nouns is based on conceptual or syntactic information. In collaboration with C11, C03 will conduct eye-tracking and EEG work on the processing of coercion and copredication.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 991: The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition and Science
• Applicant Institution: Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Peter Indefrey