In our next LangSci talk, Aine Ito, Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore, will give a talk on „The Limits and Mechanisms of Prediction in Language Comprehension„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams May 7th at 16:15!
In our next LangSci talk, Katharina Ehret, Assistant Professor at the Department of English of the University of Freiburg, will give a talk on „Language contact and morphosyntactic variation in English: towards robust and incremental corpus evidence„.
Please note that the hybrid talk will take place at an unusual time and room! In building C7 4, conference room 1.17 and on MS Teams Wednesday April 30th at 16:15!
In our next LangSci talk, João Veríssimo, Assistant professor at the Laboratory of Psycholinguistics at Center of Linguistics of the University of Lisbon, will give a talk on „A novel method for detecting the onset of experimental effects in visual world eye-tracking (and other time series) data„.
Please note that the hybrid talk will take place at an unusual time and room! In building C7 4, conference room 1.17 and on MS Teams Wednesday April 15th at 16:15!
On behalf of project B7, we hereby announce the forthcoming colloquium on „Prediction in interpreting: Advances in experimental and corpus-based methods“ on Friday, 6 February. The goal is to create a space where researchers can discuss methodological challenges and best practises on building spoken corpora with ASR, as well as to explore how experimental and corpus-based approaches can complement one another in studying predictability in interpreting. Several outstanding researchers have been invited to present their work and share their best practices. The detailed programme is attached.
One of the guests is Thomas Clark (MIT, https://thomashikaru.github.io/). He will already be in Saarbrücken on Thursday, 5 February. If you are interested in meeting him, please get in touch with Christina Pollkläsener (christina.pollklaesener@uni-saarland.de).
In our next LangSci talk, Nikolette Mus, PhD at the Institute for General and Hungarian Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), will give a talk on „The role of Information Structure in the OV-to-VO shift in West-Siberian languages„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams January 29th at 16:15!
After the talk we would like to invite you all to celebrate the start of the new year together in building A2.2, room 2.07.1.
Dear all,
please note that the talk by Roland Meyer – originally scheduled for January 22nd – will be postponed.
In our next LangSci talk, Roland Meyer, Guest professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, will give a talk on „Measuring multilingualism and language mixing in corpus texts„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams January 22nd at 16:15!
We are pleased to announce that the SAARTEC project, based at the Chair of English Linguistics and Translation Studies of our department, has been awarded start-up funding from Saarland University. The project will begin in January 2026 and will run for 12 months, structured into five working phases. A total of approximately 15.000 EUR has been granted to support its development.
SAARTEC aims to build a naturalistic-eye-tracking-while-reading corpus of English scientific texts that will provide new insights into the cognitive processing of various features of English academic writing. Once completed, the corpus will be made available online and is expected to become a valuable resource for research in English linguistics and psycholinguistics.
Project T1 is organising a workshop on Easy German comparing research to real-life experiences today, December 8th, from 14:00 to 18:00. More information here.
Dear all,
please note that the talk by Louis ten Bosch – originally scheduled for Thursday December 18th – will be postponed to a later date in the summer semester.
In our next LangSci talk, Louis ten Bosch, Guest researcher at the Department of Language and Communication and at the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University, will give a talk on „AI, Automatic Speech Recognition and phonetics„.
The hybrid talk will take place in building A 2.2, room 2.02. and on MS Teams December 18th at 16:15!