Prof. Jürgen Weissenborn
Prof. Jürgen Weissenborn
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Work: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49-30-20939672 |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Romance Linguistics, French Language and Literature, German
Language and Literature, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 1978
RESEARCH AREAS
Impaired and unimpaired language acquisition and linguistic theory
| 2003- | Honorary Professor, Department of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin |
| 1994-2002 | Full Professor, Department of Linguistics, Universität Potsdam. |
| 1991-1995 | Faculty member of the "Center for Language Studies", University of Tilburg, University of Nijmegen, Max-Planck-Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen |
| 1977-1995 | Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Holland |
| 1974-1977 | Lecturer, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken: Linguistics, Romance Linguistics |
| 1970-1977 | Researcher, Romanistisches Institut & Sonderforschungs-Bereich "Elektronische Sprachforschung" [Research in Computational Linguistics], Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany |
AWARDS
| 1992 | Max-Planck Research Award |
GRANTS
| 1988-1991 | Continuity and discontinuity in language acquisition: A crosslinguistic study. DFG, German Research Foundation. |
| 1988-1991 | The acquisition of word order in French, German, and Hebrew (with Ruth Berman, Tel Aviv University). GIF German-Israelian Foundation for Scientific Development. |
| 1992-1994 | The acquisition of verb-argument structure in French, German, Hebrew. DFG, German Research Foundation. |
| 1994-1997 | Rule knowledge and rule learning in biological systems: The identification of input information for the acquisition of syntactic knowledge in children. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science. |
| 1994-1999 | Formal models of cognitive complexity: the structure and development of early syntactic knowledge. DFG, German Research Foundation. |
| 1999-2003 | Grammatical morphemes in early language acquisition. DFG, German Research Foundation. (with Barbara Höhle) |
| 2000-2002 | „Syntactic consequences of the acquisition of morphology’“ (DFG) German Research Foundation (with Ewald Lang, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin) |
| 1996- | Member of the Graduate College „Economy and Complexity of Language“ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Universität Potsdam. DFG, German Research Foundation. |
| 2000-2004 | Early Language Development and Specific Developmental Language Disorders. DFG, Research Group of the German research Foundation. Speaker of the Research Group and principal investigator of the subproject ‘The development of language processing in language impaired and unimpaired children (with Barbara Höhle) |
| 2002-2005 | The acquisition of linguistic markers for +/-boundednes. DFG, German Research Foundation (with Manfred Krifka, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin and Humboldt-Universität,Berlin) |
| 2003-2007 | The acquisition of focus marking in unimpaired and impaired first
language acquisition: prosodic, syntactic, and lexical aspects. DFG,
German Research Foundation (Subproject C3 of the Special Research Group
“Information structure: The linguistic means for structuring
utterances, sentences and texts.” (with Barbara Höhle). |
INVITED RESEARCH POSITIONS
| 1982 | Chef de Travaux, CNRS, Paris, Laboratoire de Pychologie Expérimentale |
| 1988 | Directeur d'Études, École des Hautes Études, Paris, Laboratoire de Psychologie |
| 1988-1989 | Visiting Scientist, MIT Center for Cognitive Science, Cambridge, MA |
| 2001- | Research Associate Max-Planck-Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig |
INVITED TEACHING
| 1976-1977 | Universität Heidelberg: Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Computational Linguistics |
| 1980-1982 | Freie Universität Berlin: Psycholinguistics |
| 1981-1982 | Technische Universität Berlin: First language acquisition |
| 1983-1984 | Universität Köln: Acquisition of syntax |
| 1984-1985 | Universität Hamburg: First language acquisition, Romance linguistics |
| 1985 | Peking University (Beida):Psycholinguistics |
| 1989-1990 | Universität Düsseldorf: First language acquisition |
| 1990 | Northeastern University, Boston: Child Language |
| 1997 | LOT Summerschool, Amsterdam: First Language Acquisition |
Editorial Board Member:
| Journals: | |
| 1979- | Linguistics |
| 1990- | Language Acquisition |
| 1998- | Syntax |
| 2003- | Language Learning and Development |
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| 1989- | Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, Benjamins |
PUBLICATIONS SINCE 1998
Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (1998)
Sensitivity to closed-class-elements in preverbal children. In Proceedings
of the 22 Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, Vol.1,
A.Greenhill, M.Hughes, H.Littlefield, and H. Walsh, eds. (Somerville,
Mass.: Cascadilla Press), pp.348-359.
Weissenborn, J., Höhle, B., Kiefer, D. & Cavar, D. (1998)
Children's sensitivity to word-order violations in German: Evidence for
very early parameter-setting. In A.Greenhill, M.Hughes, H.Littlefield, and
H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings of the 22 Annual Boston Conference on Language
Development, Vol.2 , Somerville, Mass., Cascadilla Press, 756-767.
Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (1999) Discovering grammar.
Prosodic and morphosyntactic aspects of rule formation in first language
acquisition. In A. Friederici & R. Menzel (eds.) Learning: Rule
Abstraction and Representation. W. de Gruyter, Berlin., 37-69.
Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J., Wermke, K. & Wymann, K. (1999)
Prävention, Früherkennung und Frühintervention bei Spracherwerbsstörungen.
Paediatrica 10 (5),19-26.
Haverkort, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2000) Parameters and
cliticization in early child German. In C.Hamann & S. Powers (eds.)
The Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Dordrecht, Kluwer,
187-206.
Penner, Z., Tracy, R. & Weissenborn, J. (2000) Where
scrambling begins: Triggering object scrambling at the early stage in
German and Bernese Swiss German. In C.Hamann & S. Powers (eds.) The
Acquisition of Scrambling and Cliticization. Dordrecht, Kluwer,
127-164.
Höhle, B., & Weissenborn, J. (2000) The origins of syntactic
knowledge: Recognition of determiners in one year old German children. In
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development,
Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press.
Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2000) Lauter Laute? Lautsegmente
und Silben in der Sprachperzeption und im Spracherwerb. In R. Thieroff, M.
Tamrath, N. Fuhrhop & O.Teuber (Hsg.) Deutsche Grammatik in Theorie
und Praxis. Tübingen, M. Niemeyer Verlag, 1-11.
Weissenborn, Jürgen (2000) Der Erwerb von Morphologie und Syntax.
In Hannelore Grimm (Hg.) Sprachentwicklung ( Enzyklopädie der Psychologie,
Themenbereich C: Theorie und Forschung, Serie III: Sprache), Göttingen,
Bern, Toronto, Seattle, Hogrefe. Verlag für Psychologie., 141-169.
Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Schmitz, M. & Ischebeck, A. (2001)
Discovering word order regularities: The role of prosodic information for
early parameter setting. In: J. Weissenborn und B. Höhle (eds.) Approaches
to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic, and Neurophysiological
Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Amsterdam: Benjamins,
251-267.
Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J. & Wymann, K. (2001) On the
prosody/ lexicon interface in learning word order. A study of normally
developing and language impaired children. In J. Weissenborn und B. Höhle
(eds.) Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic, and
Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Amsterdam:
Benjamins, 269-294.
Meißner, S., Fischer, A., Weissenborn, J. & Wermke, K. (2001)
Spracherwerb bei Kindern mit Lippen-Kiefer-Gaumen-Spalte Eine
Längsschnittstudie an drei Kindern im Alter von 7 bis 24 Monaten.
Anthropologie im 21.Jahrhundert: Kind und Kindheit als biologisches und
kulturelles Konstrukt. Mainz, S.39.
Weissenborn, J. & Höhle, B. (eds.) (2001) Approaches to
Bootstrapping: Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic, and Neurophysiological
Aspects of Early Language Acquisition. Vol.I, II, Amsterdam,
Benjamins.
Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J., & Friederici, A., (2002)
Sprachentwicklung. In H.-O.Karnath & P.Thier (Hrsg.) Neurospychologie.
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 677-684.
Weissenborn, J. (2002) The acquisition of verb placement in German: A new
look. In: E.Witruk, A. D. Friederici and T. Lachmann (eds.) Basic
Functions of Language, Reading and Reading Disability. Dordrecht: Kluwer,
79-10.
Höhle, B., Weissenborn, J., Kiefer, D., Schulz, A, & Schmitz,
M (2002) The origins of syntactic categorization for lexical elements:
The role of determiners. In J. Costa & M.J. Freitas (eds.) Proceedings
of the GALA 2001 Conference on Language Acquisition. Lisboa, Associação
Portugesa de Linguística, 106-111.
Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2003) German-learning infants'
ability to detect unstressed closed-class elements in continuous speech.
Developmental Science 6 (3), 154-159.
Weissenborn, J., (2003) Untersuchungen zum frühkindlichen
Spracherwerb: Ergebnisse und Konsequenzen für das Verständnis von
Sprachentwicklungsstörungen. In C. Iven (Hg.) Früh genug, zu früh, zu
spät? Modelle und Methoden zur Diagnostik und Therapie sprachlicher
Entwicklungsstörungen von 0-4 Jahren.
Böhning, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2004) Fast-mapping in Williams
syndrome: A single case study In: S. Bartke & J. Siegmüller (eds.)
Williams Syndrome- A Linguistic Profile across Languages, Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
Randall, J., van Hout, A., Weissenborn, J. & Baayen, H. (2004)
Acquiring unaccusativity: a cross-linguistic look. In A. Alexiadou, E.
Angnostopoulou & M. Everaert (eds.) The Unaccusativity Puzzle.
Explorations on the Syntax-Lexicon Interface. Oxford, Oxford UP,
332-353.
Siegmüller, J. & Weissenborn, J. (2004) The comprehension of
long-distance questions in German children with Williams Syndrome: A
multiple case study. In: S. Bartke & J. Siegmüller (eds.) Williams
Syndrome- A Linguistic Profile across Languages, Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2004) Functional elements in
infants’ speech processing: The role of determiners in segmentation and
categorization of lexical elements, Infancy, 5 (3), 341-353.
Dietrich, R., Grommes, P, & Weissenborn, J. (2005) Psycholinguistik. In: U. Ammon, N. Dittmar, N. & K. Mattheier (eds.). Sociolinguistics. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Vol.2, 2nd edition, Berlin: De Gruyter, 457 - 474.
Weissenborn, J. (2005) Sprachentwicklung und Sprachförderung in den ersten drei Lebensjahren. Frühe Kindheit, Heft 1, 2005, 8-13.
Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., Santelmann, L. M., & Weissenborn, J. (2006) The Recognition of Discontinuous Verbal Dependencies by German 19-Month-Olds: Evidence for Lexical and Structural Influences on Children’s Early Processing Capacities, Language and Language Development 2 (3), 277-300
Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R., Barteles, S., & Weissenborn, J. (2006) Phonological Specificity of Early Lexical Representations in German 19-Month-Olds at Risk for SLI. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston Conference on Language Development,Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press.
Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R. & Weissenborn, J. (2006) Word processing at 19 months at its relation to language performance at 30 months: A retrospective analysis of data from German learning children. Advances in Speech and Language Pathology 8, 356-363.
Müller, A., Höhle, B., Schmitz, M., & Weissenborn, J. (2006). Focus-to-Stress Alignment in 4- to 5-year-old German-learning Children. In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di. Domenico & I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of the GALA 2005, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 393-407.
Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J., & Friederici, A. (2006) Sprachentwicklung. In: Karnath & Thier, P. (Hrsg.) Neurospychologie. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 632-639.
Schmitz, M., Höhle, B., Müller, A., & Weissenborn, J. (2006). The Recognition of the Prosodic Focus Position in German-Learning Infants from 4 to 14 Months. In S. Ishihara, M. Schmitz & A. Schwarz (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure - Working Papers of the SFB 632 (Vol. ISIS 05), Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 187-208.
Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) German 4-year-olds’ comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle auch (also): Evidence from eye-tracking. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, I. Woo (eds.) BUCLD 31: Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 1. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press, 105-116.
Friederici, A. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) Mapping sentence form onto meaning: The syntax semantic interface. Brain Research, 1146, 50-58.
Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Nazzi, T., Herold, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) The development of language specific prosodic differences during the first half year of life and its relation to lager lexical development: Evidence from German and French. In: Proceedings of the 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 1529-1532.
Dietrich, R & Weissenborn, J. (2008) Erwerbsprozesse im Erstspracherwerb (2008) Empirische Forschung und Theoriebildung. Beiträge aus Soziolinguistik, Gesprochene-Sprache- und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Festschrift für Norbert Dittmar zum 65. Geburtstag. Lang, Frankfurt/ Main, 217-226.
Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2008) Teaching a new word: Properties of CDS to 12-month-old German learning children. In: Kern, S., Gayraud, F. & Marsico, E. (Eds.) Emergence of linguistic abilities. Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 244-271
Höhle, B., Berger, F., Müller, A., Schmitz, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2009) Focus particles in children’s language: Production and comprehension of auch ‚also’ in German learners from 1 year to 4 years of age. Language Acquisition, 16, 36-66.
Müller, A., Höhle,B., Schmitz, M. & Weissenborn, J. (2009) Information structural constraints on children’s early language production: The acquisition of the focus particle auch (also) in German learning 12-to-36-month olds. First Language 29 (4), References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.
Höhle B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J. & Nazzi, T. (2009) Language specific prosodic preferences during the first half year of life: Evidence from German and French infants, Infant Behavior and Development 32 (3), 262-274.
Dietrich, R., Grommes, P, & Weissenborn, J. (in press) Psycholinguistik. In: U. Ammon, N. Dittmar & K. Mattheier (eds.). Sociolinguistics. An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. 2nd edition, Berlin: De Gruyter, 457 - 474.
