Austrian Academy of Sciences

Department of Linguistics and Communication Research

RESEARCH UNIT CHILD LANGUAGE

Our research in child language focusses on children’s development of spoken language, from early childhood to pre-adolescence. One main research area is children’s development of morphology in German, in comparison with other languages. For that purpose, different types of methodologies are used, such as longitudinal spontaneous speech, cross-sectional naturalistic elicitations, and different kinds of experimental tasks. 

Current projects:

• Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition
• CLAD - Crosslinguistic Language Diagnosis (Leonardo da Vinci Programme)
• INPUT - Investigating Parental and Other Caretakers' Utterances to Kindergarten Children (WWTF)
• NETWORDS - The European Network on Word Structure (ESF)
• Relations between language and perception/cognition from infancy to adulthood: spatial language

Past projects:

• Noun development in a crosslinguistic perspective (FWF P17276-G03)
• Grammaticization processes in language acquisition (ANR, Programme blanc 2006)
• COST Action 33 - Cross-linguistically robust stages of children’s linguistic performance