Faculty/Staff
English Language and Linguistics
The English Language and Linguistics department proudly presents three professors, Ingo Plag, Tania Kouteva, and Kevin Tang, as well as a number of post-doctoral researchers and PhD students. Ingo Plag is a leading researcher in morphology, syntax and creole studies with over a hundred publications, Tania Kouteva is internationally renowned for her expertise in language development, grammaticalisation and language typology, and Kevin Tang focuses on phonetics, phonology and morphology with a special interest in computational linguistics, laboratory phonology and psycholinguistics.
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Research and teaching covers a broad range of topics in all linguistic subsystems: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics and text linguistics.
Phonetics and Phonology
- Laboratory phonology (Ingo Plag, Kevin Tang, Dominic Schmitz)
- Morphophonetics (Ingo Plag, Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein)
- Morphophonology (Jennifer Keller)
- Phonetics (Ingo Plag, Kevin Tang, Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein)
- Phonological theory (Ingo Plag, Kevin Tang, Christian Uffmann)
- Sound symbolism (Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein)
Morphology and Syntax
- Analogical modeling of language (Ingo Plag)
- Functional syntax and text linguistics (Heidrun Dorgeloh)
- Word-formation (Ingo Plag, Viktoria Schneider)
Semantics and Pragmatics
- Discourse grammar (Heidrun Dorgeloh)
- Empirical pragmatics (Julia Muschalik)
- Language and argumentation (Heidrun Dorgeloh)
- Semantics (Ingo Plag, Viktoria Schneider)
Language Variation, Change, and Contact
- Language change (Christian Uffmann)
- Language contact (Ingo Plag, Christian Uffmann)
- Language revitalization (Ingo Plag, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao)
- Varieties of English (Ingo Plag, Kevin Tang, Christian Uffmann, Hamid Mojarad)
Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition
- Psycholinguistics (Ingo Plag, Kevin Tang, Julia Muschalik, Dominic Schmitz, Simon David Stein, Jennifer Keller)
- Second language acquisition (Ingo Plag, Christian Uffmann, Hamid Mojarad, Julika Weber)
Sociolinguistics
- Language attitudes (Simon David Stein)
- Gender linguistics (Dominic Schmitz)
Modalities and Domains
- English in professional domains (Heidrun Dorgeloh)
- Human health – linguistic biomarkers, precision health & speech pathology (Kevin Tang)
- Language and music (Ingo Plag)
- Spelling and morphology (Ingo Plag, Julia Muschalik)
- Typing (Julia Muschalik)
- Written language processing (Julia Muschalik, Hamid Mojarad)
Computational and Technological Approaches
- Automatic Speech Recognition (Hamid Mojarad)
- Computational linguistics (Kevin Tang, Dominic Schmitz, Jennifer Keller, Hamid Mojarad, Akhilesh Kakolu Ramarao, Viktoria Schneider)
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (Hamid Mojarad)
An overview of the department's publications can be found in the university bibliography.