Faculty of Language, Literature and Humanities - German in Multilingual Contexts

Dr. Antje Sauermann


Contact details

Dorotheenstraße 24
10117 Berlin
Room 3.325
 

Email: antje.sauermann(at)hu-berlin.de

Phone: +49 (0)30 2093 9675

 

Consultation hours, summer term 2024 and semester break: TBA and by appointment

 

Postal address
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik
Unter den Linden 6
D-10099 Berlin

 

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Courses summer semester 2024

Mo 8–10 a.m, DOR 24, R. 1.102

Wed 8–10 a.m., DOR 24, R. 1.102

Wed 2–4 p.m., DOR 24, R. 1.401

 


Research

Research interests
  • Language acquisition and multilingualism (esp. information structure, discourse structure, register)
  • Variation in multilingual contexts (esp. German in Namibia)
  • Influence of contextual factors in language acquisition and language processing
  • Language attitudes and social meaning

 

Projects

current

completed

  • 2020-2023: SFB1412 'Register' (Phase I), Teilprojekt C07 'Register perception in a multilingual context of German: Differentiation, awareness, and attitudes', Co-PI, with Heike Wiese
  • 2022 - 2023: HyPE ViSOR - Hybride Präsenz- und E-Lehrkonzepte zur Vielseitigkeit von Sprache, Offline und Remote, Co-PI with Oliver Bunk and Fynn Raphael Dobler

 


Publications

  • Dissertation

Sauermann, A. (2016). Impact of the type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order variation. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

 

  • Articles in journals and book chapters (*peer-reviewed)

*Pescuma, V. N., Serova, D., Lukassek, J., Sauermann, A., Schäfer, R., Adli, A., Bildhauer, F., Egg, M., Hülk, K., Ito, A., Jannedy, S., Kordoni, V., Kühnast, M., Kutscher, S., Lange, R., Lehmann, N., Liu, M., Lütke, B., Maquate, K., Mooshammer, C., Mortezapour, V., Müller, S., Norde, M., Pankratz, E., Patarroyo, A. G., Plesca, A.-M., Ronderos, C. R., Rotter, S., Sauerland, U., Schnelle, G., Schulte, B., Schüppenhauer, G., Sell, B. M., Solt, S., Terada, M., Tsiapou, D., Verhoeven, E., Weirich, M., Wiese, H., Zaruba, K., Zeige, L. R.,Lüdeling, A., & Knoeferle, P. (2023) Situated language register across the ages, languages and modalities, and cultures: Evidence from complementary methods. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 964658. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.964658.

*Sauermann, A., Schulte, B., & Wiese, H. (2023). "Sprachkontakt in Namibia: Registerdifferenzierung im Namdeutschen." In B. Hans-Bianchi, & B. Vogt (Eds.), Deutsch im Kontakt. Neue empirische Studien zu Kontaktphänomenen und -szenarien in der Gegenwart (pp. 127-164). Baden-Baden: Georg Olms Verlag.

Yilmaz, G., & Sauermann, A. (2023). Complete acquisition in the heritage language: Evidence from indefiniteness in Turkish. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, 33, 813-847. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1286008.

*Wiese, H., Sauermann, A., & Bracke Y. (2022). "Coherence and language contact: Orderly heterogeneity and social meaning in Namibian German." In K. V. Beaman, & G. R. Guy (Eds.), The coherence of linguistic communities (pp. 301-318). New York, London: Routledge.

*Burmester, J., Sauermann, A., Spalek, K., & Wartenburger, I. (2018). Sensitivity to salience: linguistic vs. visual cues affect sentence processing and pronoun resolution. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 784-801. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1428758.

*Sauermann, A., & Gagarina, N. (2018). The roles of givenness and type of referring expression in the comprehension of word order in Russian-speaking children. Linguistics Vanguard, 4(s1), 20160094. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2016-0094.

*Sauermann, A., & Höhle, B. (2018). Word order in German child language and child-directed speech: A corpus analysis on the ordering of double objects in the German middlefield. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 3(1), 57. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.281

*Sauermann, A., & Gagarina, N. (2017). Parallelism influences ambiguous pronoun resolution in German. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01205.

*Sekerina, I. A., & Sauermann, A. (2017). Quantifier spreading in child eye movements: A case of the Russian quantifier kazhdyj ‘every’. Glossa, 2(1), 66. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.109.

*Höhle, B., Berger, F., & Sauermann, A. (2016). "First language acquisition." In C. Féry, & S. Ishihara (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Information Structure (pp. 562-580). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Sauermann, A., & Höhle, B. (2016). "Impact of context and type of referring expression on sentence comprehension in German-speaking children." In L. Perkins, R. Dudley, J. Gerard, & K. Hitczenko (Eds.), Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2015) (pp. 90-101). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

*Sekerina, I. A., & Sauermann, A. (2015). Visual attention and quantifier-spreading in heritage Russian bilinguals. Second Language Research, 31(1), 75-104.

*Sauermann, A., Filik, R., & Paterson, K.B. (2013). Processing contextual and lexical cues to focus: Evidence from eye movements in reading. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28, 875-903.

Sauermann, A., & Höhle, B. (2013). Corpus investigation of information-structural ordering preferences in German-speaking children and adults. In S. Stavrakaki, M. Lalioti, & P. Konstantinopoulou (Eds.), Advances in Language Acquisition (pp. 173-181). Newcastle upon Tyn: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

*Filik, R., Paterson, K.B., & Sauermann, A. (2011). "The influence of focus on eye movements during reading." In S. P. Liversedge, I. D. Gilchrist, & S. Everling (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements (S. 925-941). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Sauermann, A., Höhle, B., Chen, A., & Järvikivi, J. (2011). Intonational marking of focus in different word orders in German children. In M. Byram Washburn et al (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 313-322). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Stede, M., & Sauermann, A. (2008). Linearization of arguments in commentary text. In W. Ramm & C. Fabricius-Hansen (Eds.), Linearisation and Segmentation in Discourse. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008 (MAD 08), Feb 20-23 2008, Lysebu, Oslo. Oslo: Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo.

Haack, J., & Sauermann, A. (2004). Zum Instruktionsdesign von problembasierten Lernumgebungen. In K. Rebensburg (Eds.), Grundfragen Multimedialen Lehrens und Lernens (GML2 2004) (pp. 173-181). Berlin: SEL Alcatel Stiftung für Kommunikationsforschung.

 

Presentations

  • Talks

(*presented by)

Schulte, B.*, Sauermann, A., & Wiese, H. Register perception in multilingual speakers of German in a minority context: An open guise addressee identification study. 48th Annual Conference of the German Association for Linguistics (DGfS). 1.2. - 1.3.2024, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Bunk, O.*, Sauermann, A.*, Dobler, F. R., & Wiese, H. Sociolinguistic variation in Kiezdeutsch and Namdeutsch. Methods XVII. 1.8. - 5.8.2022, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.

Wiese, H., Sauermann, A.*, & Schulte, B.* Lexical vs. grammatical features in the perception of Namibian German. German Abroad. 27. - 28.09.2021, online conference.

Sekerina, I.A., Mitrofanova, N., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M.* Crosslinguistic transfer of case cues in anticipating non-canonical word orders. International Symposium on Bilingualism. 23. - 28.06.2019, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Yilmaz, G.*, & Sauermann, A. An intergenerational look into referentiality: the bare object in Turkish. International Symposium on Bilingualism. 23. - 28.06.2019, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Sauermann, A.* Impact of type of referring expression on the acquisition of word order in German. IGRA colloquium. 04.05.2017, Universität Leipzig. (invited talk)

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Anaphor resolution strategies in bilingual Russian-German preschoolers and monolingual adults. Workshop “Heritage languages in adults and children”. 27.01.2017, ZAS Berlin.

Sauermann, A.* Impact of topic status and type of referring expression on OVS sentence comprehension in German-speaking pre-schoolers. CASTL colloquium. 29.04.2016, University of Tromsø. (eingeladener Vortrag)

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Anaphor resolution strategies in bilingual Russian-German preschoolers and monolingual adults. International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). 14. - 15.04.2016, Kaiserslautern.

Sauermann, A.*, & Höhle, B. Impact of topic status and type of referring expression on OVS sentence comprehension in German-speaking pre-schoolers. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA). 19. - 21.02.2015, College Park, MD.

Sekerina, I., & Sauermann, A.* The ‘signature’ of q-spreading errors in children and bilingual heritage adults. Workshop on the Acquisition of Quantification. 04. - 05.10.2013, Amherst, MA.

Sauermann, A.*, & Höhle, B. Language acquisition at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Evidence from German child language and child-directed speech. Workshop on the Acquisition at the Interface. 22. - 23.10.2012, University of Tromsø.

Sauermann, A.*, & Höhle, B. Information structural ordering preferences in German-speaking children and adults. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA). 06. - 08.09.2011, Thessaloniki.

Sauermann, A.* A corpus analysis of word order variation in child language. 32nd Annual Conference of the German Association for Linguistics (DGfS). 23. - 26.02.2010, Berlin.

Chen, A., Höhle, B., Sauermann, A.*, Fleischhauer, E., & Järvikivi, J. Intonational marking of focus in different word orders in children. 28th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, 19. - 21.02.2010, Los Angeles.

 

  • Posters

(*presented by)

Schulte, B.*, Sauermann, A., & Wiese, H. Social meaning of lexical and grammatical features in Namibian German. Social Meaning Berlin. 14. - 15.11.2023, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS).

Mitrofanova, N.*, Sekerina, I.A., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M. Language-specific morphology facilitates predictive use of case marking in bilingual children. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. 06. - 08.09.2019, Moskau.

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Pronouns and proficiency influence OVS comprehension in bilingual preschoolers. Child Language Symposium (CLS) 2018. 25. - 26.06.2018, Reading.

Sauermann, A.*, & Gagarina, N. Pronouns and proficiency affect OVS comprehension in bilingual preschoolers. International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). 24. - 25.05.2018, Braunschweig.

Sekerina, I.A.*, Mitrofanova, N., Sauermann, A., Gagarina, N., & Westergaard, M. Predictive use of grammatical case in bilingual children is modulated by task. International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC). 24. - 25.05.2018, Braunschweig.

Yilmaz, G.*, & Sauermann, A. The interpretation of indefiniteness by Turkish heritage speakers: Is there transfer from the dominant language? Linguistic Evidence. 15. - 17.02.2018, Tübingen.

Sauermann, A.* Impact of referring expressions on the acquisition of word order variation. International conference of the SFB 632. 08. - 09.05.2015, Berlin.

Sekerina, I., & Sauermann, A.* Path of acquisition of the quantifier kazhdyj ‘every’ in Russian. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. 06. - 08.09.2010, York.

Sauermann, A.*, Paterson, K. B., & Filik, R. Context influences association with focus in reading. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. 07. - 09.09.2009, Barcelona.

Sauermann, A.*, Kügler, F., Drenhaus, H., & Paterson, K. B. On the interpretation and processing of ‘only’. Experimental Psychological Society Meeting. 15. - 17.04.2009, Leicester.

Sauermann, A.*, Kügler, F., & Drenhaus, H. Zur Verarbeitung und Interpretation von ‘only‘. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP). 30.03. - 01.04.2009, Jena.

Knowledge transfer: activities for wider audiences

Sauermann, A., Bartz, D., & Gagarina, N. (2018). Erwerb diskursiver Fähigkeiten. In Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Das Forschungsjahr 2017 (S. 19-30).

Gagarina, N. & Sauermann, A.* Typische, auffällige oder gestörte Mehrsprachigkeit. Arbeitskreis Lingua Pankow. 14.06.2017, Berlin. Vortrag.

 


Previous courses

Winter semester 2023/2024 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Erwerb sprachlicher Variation (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • SE Zweitspracherwerb (Master Linguistik)

Summer semester 2023 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • Sprache im Wandel: Variation in Erwerbskontexte (MA Education)
  • SE Zweit- und Fremdspracherwerb (Zertifikatsstudium Deutsch im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext)

Winter semester 2022/2023 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • SE Erwerb sprachlicher Variation (Master Linguistik)
  • SE Zweit- und Fremdspracherwerb (Zertifikatsstudium Deutsch im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext)

Summer semester 2022 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • SE Meilensteine des Spracherwerbs (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)

Winter semester 2021/22 (HU Berlin, digital + hybrid)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Variation in Erwerbskontexten (MA Education)
  • SE Erwerb sprachlicher Variation (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)

Summer semester 2021 (HU Berlin, digital)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Variation in Erwerbskontexten (MA Education)
  • SE Erwerb sprachlicher Variation (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • SE Registererwerb (Master Linguistik)

Winter semester 2020/21 (HU Berlin, digital)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Variation in Erwerbskontexten (MA Education)
  • SE Meilensteine des Spracherwerbs (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)

Summer semester 2020 (HU Berlin, digital)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Variation in Erwerbskontexten (MA Education)
  • SE Meilensteine des Erstspracherwerbs (BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)
  • GK Linguistik (mit Dr. Lars Zeige, BA Germanistische Linguistik, BA Deutsch)

Winter semester 2019/2020 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprachstrukturen von Herkunftssprachen (Zertifikatsstudium Deutsch im Mehrsprachigkeitskontext)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Wandel durch Mehrsprachigkeit (MA Education)

Summer semester 2019 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Das Wort (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • SE Sprache im Wandel: Wandel durch Mehrsprachigkeit (MA Education)

Winter semester 2018/2019 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Der Satz (BA Bildung an Grundschulen)
  • Ü Deutsche Grammatik (BA Germanistische Linguistik)
  • SE Erstspracherwerb von Informationsstruktur (BA Germanistische Linguistik)

Summer semester 2018 (HU Berlin)

  • SE Second Language Acquisition (BA Englisch)

Summer semester 2017 (HU Berlin)

  • SE (Erst)Spracherwerb von Informationsstruktur (BA Germanistische Linguistik)

09/2017, 09/2018, 10/2019, 10/2020 (digital) (University Wroclaw)

  • BS Language Acquisition of information structure (MA English)