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Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign language accent. A comparison of German and Polish
Grammatical tinnitus and its role in the perception of foreign language accent. A comparison of German and Polish
https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/research/research-areas/laboratory-phonology/granitus/
Project coordinators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Dr Marzena Żygis PD (Leibniz-ZAS & Humboldt University of Berlin)
Team
Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
PD Dr. Marzena Żygis, PI Germany
Sarah Wesolek, MA
University of Wrocław
Prof. Dr hab. Joanna Błaszczak, PI Poland,
Dr Piotr Gulgowski
Funding institution: Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung / Polsko-Niemiecka Fundacja na rzecz Nauki
Aims: Our project has the overarching goal of gaining more insight into the perception processes of foreign language accents. We aim to show that perception is not only based on the linguistic signal, but is a much more complex phenomenon. In our study we will examine factors that relate to (i) the signal, (ii) the speaker, and (iii) the listener in the German-Polish context. Of particular importance are the following questions:
Question 1: If both phonetic and grammatical features influence the perception of foreign language accent, are there differences in their weighting? Are we more sensitive to phonetic pecularities and do we turn a deaf ear to grammatical mistakes?
Question 2: To what extent does the attitude of the listener towards the speaker play a role in the perception of the foreign language accent? Does the information about the speaker's origin also influence perception?
Question 3: What role does the linguistic background of the listener play in the perception of the foreign language accent? Is there a difference between mono- and multilingual listeners?
To answer these questions, we are planning a series of perception and event-related potentials (ERP) experiments.
Dates: 01.10.2020-31.12.2023
The perception and processing of foreign accent from a German-Polish perspective
The perception and processing of foreign accent from a German-Polish perspective
Project coordinators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Dr Marzena Żygis PD (Leibniz-ZAS & Humboldt University of Berlin)
Participants (of the Polish part of the project): Hanna Kędzierska, MA (University of Wrocław), Piotr Gulgowski, MA (University of Wrocław), students of the ETHEL Master programme in linguistics (“Empirical and Theoretical Linguistics”)
Funding institution: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) and MNiSW (PPP – Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange)
Aims: The goal of this project is to investigate the perception and neural processing of foreign accented speech by making use of a novel combination of experimental methods (perceptual tests based on Likert scale, EEG experiments, interviews, questionnaires). In particular, the project investigates how Polish native speakers perceive and process the German accent in Polish speech and, conversely, how German native speakers perceive and process the Polish accent in German speech. The aim of this study is to gain more insight into the role of a listener’s attitude towards other speaker groups. We are particularly interested in determining the extent to which a speaker’s background information shapes his/her perception and processing of a foreign accent (to this end we shall consider stereotypes about the ancestry of the speaker). Our study aims to clarify a possible discrepancy between perception and brain reactions to foreign accents (objective component), on the one hand, and subjective attitudes towards foreign accents (subjective component), on the other.
Dates: 01.01.2018-31.12.2019
Linguistic predictions in context: Collocations and selection from a psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic perspective
Linguistic predictions in context: Collocations and selection from a psycholinguistic and corpus linguistic perspective
The EEG laboratory
Project coordinators: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak (University of Wrocław) and Prof. Roland Meyer (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Participants (of the Polish part of the project): Dr Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (University of Wrocław), Hanna Kędzierska, MA (University of Wrocław), Paula Liczbańska (University of Wrocław), Piotr Gulgowski, MA (University of Wrocław), Dr Jerzy Gaszewski (University of Wrocław), Dr Wojciech Witkowski (University of Wrocław)
Funding institution: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service) and MNiSW (PPP – Programme for Project-Related Personal Exchange)
Aims: This project aims – by investigating corpora and conducting psycholinguistic experiments – to answer the following research question: How strong is the relation between regular cooccurrences in large text corpora on the one hand, and psycho-/neurolinguistic measures of collocation and selectional restrictions on the other? Answers to this question will have strong implications for the more general issue of whether textual corpus data actually mirror our "thinking", i.e., our psycholinguistic reality.
Dates: 01.01.2017-31.12.2018
OPUS 5 / NCN
OPUS 5 / NCN
The eye-tracking laboratory
The project Psycholinguistic investigations into number and quantification in natural language is funded by The National Science Centre within the programme OPUS 5.
Project coordinator: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak
Participants: Dr Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (University of Wrocław), Piotr Gulgowski, MA (University of Wrocław), Dr Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of Cologne)
Funding institution: National Science Centre (OPUS 5)
Aims: The overarching goal of the project is to provide detailed insights into the nature of the processing of number and quantification in natural language through a series of psycholinguistic experiments investigating three specific research problems: (i) number interpretation of nouns and verbs based on morphology, context and lexical semantics (using the technique of reaction time measuring in a variant of a Stroop test), (ii) the interpretation of imperfective aspect with a special focus on the composition of its iterative (plural) and progressive (single-event) readings (using the techniques of lexical decision, cross-modal study, self-paced reading, eyetracking during reading), (iii) the mental representation of lexical properties of quantifier terms (using the technique of eyetracking – the visual-world paradigm).
Dates: 28.03.2014-27.03.2019
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Completed Projects
Completed Projects
Focus / FNP
Focus / FNP
The project Decomposing categories in the brain: Focus on linguistic categories expressing eventualities is funded by The Foundation for Polish Science within the programme FOCUS.
Project coordinator: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak
Participants: Dr Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (University of Wrocław), Piotr Gulgowski, MA (University of Wrocław), Dr Anna Czypionka (University of Konstanz), Dr Barbara Tomaszewicz (University of Cologne)
Funding institution: Foundation for Polish Science (FOCUS)
Aims: i) processing the grammatical categories of noun and verb with a special focus on nominalizations (using the technique of event-related potentials); ii) processing perfective and imperfective verbal aspect with a particular focus on context-driven aspectual coercion (using the technique of event-related potentials); iii) processing German verbs with separable prefixes (particles) and the role of such prefixes in selecting for the Genitive case (using the techniques of event-related potentials, self-paced reading, acceptability test (based on Magnitude Estimation), sentence completion task); iv) selectional restrictions of verbs including the phenomenon of complement coercion (using the technique of self-paced reading); v) relations between the category of number in the nominal domain and the category of aspect in the verbal domain (using acceptability questionnaires); mechanisms of morphological decomposition in nouns and verbs (using the technique of priming).
Dates: 01.01.2014-31.03.2016
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TRAIT / Temporal Relations at the Interfaces
TRAIT / Temporal Relations at the Interfaces
The project Understanding Categories: Three approaches to temporality was funded by The Foundation for Polish Science within the programme FOCUS edition 2009 Językowa Kategoryzacja Świata (Linguistic Categorization of the World).
Project coordinator: Prof. Joanna Błaszczak
Participants: Dr Patrycja Jabłońska (University of Wrocław), Dr Dorota Klimek-Jankowska (University of Wrocław), Dr Krzysztof Migdalski (University of Wrocław)
Funding institution: Foundation for Polish Science (FOCUS)
Aims: The project investigates the phenomenon of temporality in connection with relations between the main components of the language system. The project consists of three sub-projects, each investigating a separate relation:
Sub-project 1 “Breaking down temporality to its building blocks: Tense, Aspect and Modality”; research subject: syntax-semantics relation; secondary discipline: linguistic typology
Sub-project 2 “Tense changes over time”; research subject: syntax-phonology relation; secondary discipline: diachronic linguistics
Sub-project 3 “Temporal relations across sentences and languages: A case study of temporal converbs”; research subject: syntax-morphology relation; secondary discipline: psycholinguistics (using the technique of event-related potentials)
Dates: 01.10.2010-30.09.2013
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