I’m a doctoral researcher in the Cognitive Modeling group at the Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück University, and in the Semantics and Pragmatics group at the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS). In my PhD, supervised by Michael Franke and Manfred Krifka, I’m investigating discourse-based prediction in the processing of utterances with epistemicity markers in English and German.
I’m broadly interested in the interplay between language, cognition, and interaction. I’m particularly interested in how people create and manage meaning using language. In my research I use primarily experimental methods to investigate:
how linguistic and extralinguistic cues modulate people’s discourse expectations and in turn affect their understanding and their ascription of actions and mental states;
how pragmatic and interactional aspects of human communication affect the emergence and evolution of linguistic meaning and structure.
I’m also interested in issues related to research design and methodology and data analysis.