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Faculties
Faculty of Humanities and Education
Institutes
English and American Studies
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English Linguistics
Team
Hopp, Holger, Prof. Dr.
Research and Teaching
Hopp, Holger, Prof. Dr.
CV
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Research Interests
Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism
Language Processing, in particular Eye-Tracking
Syntax and its Interfaces
Projects
Director of
LingLabTU
Principal Investigator (with
Sarah Schimke
): "
Learning to Process and Processing to Learn: How linguistic and cognitive processing shapes grammar acquisition
”, funded by DFG (2020-2023)
Principal Investigator:
"
SILPAC – Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change
”, a research unit funded by DFG (2022-2026)
Principal Investigator (with
Katie Von Holzen
):
"Ini-Seg - Initial foreign speech segmentation in school-aged children”
, funded by DFG (2022-2025)
Principal Investigator (with
Monika S. Schmid
and
Barbara Köpke
):
"
BILDEV – Modelling bottom-up and top-down linguistic knowledge across different contexts of bilingual development
”, funded by DFG (2023-2026), ANR and ESRC
Principal Investigator:
"
MEG-SKoRe - Sprachliche und kognitive Ressourcen der Mehrsprachigkeit im Englischerwerb in der Grundschule
", funded by BMBF (2014-2020)
International Co-operations
since 09.2013: Associate member of the
Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism
at the University of Reading, UK
since 06.2013: International Partner, PIRE Project
"PIRE: Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience"
, National Science Foundation.
2019-2020: Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (CAS), Project: “
MultiGender: A Multilingual Approach to Grammatical Gender”
Teaching
Quantitative Research in Linguistics
First Language Acquisition
Second Language Acquisition
Child Multilingualism
Second Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory
Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism
Interfaces in Language Development
Language Across the Lifespan: Acquisition, Aging and Attrition
Multilingualism Across the Lifespan
Cross-Linguistic Syntax
Minimalist Syntax
Semantics and Pragmatics of English
Academic English
Psycholinguistics
Seeing Language: Eye Tracking in Linguistic Research
Grammatical Processing in L1 and L2 Acquisition
Topics in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
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