• variationist linguistics: variey contact, variety acquisition, perception & production of syntactic variation
  • german as a second/foreign language: L2-learning of syntax & pragmatics in physical and vr-tandem interactions, visual attention and language learning
  • cognitive linguistics: grounded cognition, multimodality in semantics & pragmatics
  • theory of grammar: relative clauses, complex verbs, word formation, cultural evolution of grammar

Experiments & surveys 

Tandem-Learning in Social Virtual Reality
https://hololingo.blog.uni-hildesheim.de
Survey period May 2019 (closed)
SVR-App "Hololingo!"
Workgroup on Digital Game-Based Language Learning (DGBLL) in Social Virtual Reality (SVR)
Survey on learning German in a foreign country
https://www.soscisurvey.de/daf-erwerb
Survey period: 01.09.-30.10.2018 (closed)
Eye-tracking experiment: Variation of eye-hand coordination in action verbs.
Survey period: June 2016 (closed)
Team dialogues in computer games: "chicken challenge".
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Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Variation in the motor-semantics of action verbs in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
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Survey period: May - June 2015 (closed) 
Evolution of Grammar in Non-Verbal Communication. The Turtle Game.
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Survey period: June 2015 (closed)
Eye tracking: Visual behavior in relative-clause perception
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Survey period: October 2014 (closed)
Equipment: http://www.pupil-labs.com/pupil/
Online experiment: Syntactic saliency in Austrian dialects
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Survey period: March - June 2013 (closed)