Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Weissenborn

 

Humboldt University

Institute for German Language and Linguistics

Psycholinguistics

Unter den Linden 6

10099 Berlin, Germany

Tel:  20939673

Fax: 20939729

email: juergen.weissenborn (at) rz.hu-berlin.de

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

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

 

POSITIONS

2003  -          Honorary Professor, Department of German Language and Linguistics,

                     Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

1994-2002     Full Professor, Department of Linguistics, Universität  Potsdam,

Chair in Psycholinguistics

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- 2008     Member of the Graduate School„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.")

2006-2007      Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference. DFG,
                      German Research Foundation (with Dagmar Bittner, Zentrum
                      für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin and Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)

2006-2009      Cross-linguistically robust stages of children’s linguistic performance. COST Action A33, ESF
                      (Fondation européenne de la science)
                      COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme  (German member
                      of the Management Committee)

 

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 Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, 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

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Advisory Board of the Dutch National Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT)

Member of the Scientific Board of the German Federal Association for Willliams Syndrome

 

Board Member:

Journals:

1979- 2006     Linguistics

1990- 2008     Language Acquisition

1998- 2009     Syntax

2003-             Language Learning and Development

 

Series:

1989-             Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, Benjamins

 

Member:

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft

Deutscher Romanistenverband

International Association for the Study of Child Language

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

Weissenborn, J. (1964) Recherches statistiques sur la structure de la phrase allemande. Études de linguistique appliquée. 75‑87.

Weissenborn, J. (1973) Zum Problem der Textgrammatik. Kritik an dem  strukturalistischen Modell von Z. S. Harris und Ideen zu einer  generativen Grammatik französischer Texte. MA Thesis. Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.

Dietrich, R. & Weissenborn, J. (1973) Einige formale Modelle in der Syntax.  In C.Eckensberger & E.Eckensberger (Eds.) Bericht über den 28. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. Vol.1:  Wissenschaftstheorie und Psycholinguistik. Göttingen: Hogrefe. 81‑102.

Weissenborn, J. (1976) Elemente einer automatischen morphologischen und syntaktischen Analyse des  Französischen. In Arbeiten zur automatischen Analyse des Französischen 1. Saarbrücken:  Sonderforschungsbereich 100 'Elektronische Sprachforschung'. 1‑34.

Weissenborn, J. (1977) Zur Rolle und Form der Analyse in der maschinellen Übersetzung. Die  automatische Analyse des Französischen in Saarbrücken. In Kommission der Europäischen  Gemeinschaften (Ed.) 3. Europäischer Kongress über Dokumentationssysteme und ‑netze.  Die  Überwindung der Sprachbarrieren. Vol.1. München: Verlag Dokumentation. 553‑584.

Weissenborn, J. (1978) Eine Basisgrammatik für die automatische Analyse des Französischen im Hinblick  auf  die maschinelle Übersetzung. PhD Thesis. Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes.

Miller, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1978) Pragmatic conditions on learning how to refer to localities. Papers and reports on child language development 15, 68‑77. Stanford: Stanford University.

Miller, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1979) Pragmatische Voraussetzungen für den  Erwerb lokaler Referenz.  In K. Martens (Ed.) Kindliche Kommunikation. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. 61‑75.

Weissenborn, J. (1981) L'acquisition des prépositions spatiales. Problèmes cognitifs et linguistiques. In C.Schwarze (Ed.) Analyse des prépositions. IIIème Colloque Franco‑Allemand de Linguistique  Théorique. Constance. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 251‑285.

Weissenborn, J. & Klein, W. (eds.) (1982) Here and there. Crosslinguistic studies on deixis and demonstration. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Weissenborn, J. (1982) Ergänzungsbibliographie 'Kognitive Karten' bis 1981. In R. Downs & D. Stea. Kognitive Karten. Die Welt in unseren Köpfen. (German translation of: Maps in minds. New York:  Harper and Row, 1977) New York: Harper and Row. 371‑377.

Klein, W. & Weissenborn, J. (eds.) (1982) Zweitsprachenerwerb. Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und  Linguistik 45. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht.

Kail, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1984) A developmental cross‑ linguistic study of adversative connectives: French  'mais' and German 'aber/sondern'. Journal of Child Language 11, 143‑158.

Weissenborn, J. & Stralka, R. (1984) Das Verstehen von Missverständnissen. Eine ontogenetische Studie. In W. Klein (ed.) Textverständlichkeit ‑ Textverstehen. Zeitschrift für  Literaturwissenschaft und  Linguistik 55. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. 113 ‑134.

Weissenborn, J. (1984) La genèse de la référence spatiale en langue maternelle et en langue seconde:  Similarités et différences. In G. Extra & M. Mittner (eds.) Studies in Second Language Acquisition by Adult Immigrants (Tilburg Studies in Language and Literature 6 ). Tilburg: Tilburg University. 262‑272.

Kail, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1984) L'acquisition des connecteurs: critiques et perspectives. In M. Moscato  &  G. Pierault Le Bonniec (eds.) Le langage: construction et actualisation. Rouen: Presses   Universitaires de Rouen. 101‑120.

Weissenborn, J., Friederici, A. & Kail, M. (1985) Zur Rolle sprachspezifischer Faktoren bei der Verarbeitung  von Pronomina: Eine ontogenetische Studie. Bericht über den 34.Kongress der  Deutschen  Gesellschaft für Psychologie in Wien 1984. Göttingen: Hogrefe, 285‑288.

Weissenborn, J. (1985) "Ich weiss ja nicht von hier aus, wie weit es von dahinten aus ist". Makroräume in der kognitiven und in der sprachlichen Entwicklung des Kindes. In H. Schweizer (ed.) Sprache  und Raum, Stuttgart: Metzler, 209‑244.

Weissenborn, J. (1986) Learning how to become an interlocutor. The verbal  negotiation of common frames of reference and action in dyads of  7‑14 year old children. In J.Cook‑Gumperz, W.Corsaro & J.Streeck  (eds.) Children's world and children's language. Berlin: Mouton ‑ De  Gruyter, 377‑404.

Weissenborn, J. & Meisel, J.(eds.) (1986) Studies on Syntactic and  Morphological Development. The Hague ‑ Berlin: Mouton‑De Gruyter.

Weissenborn, J. & Schriefers, H. (1987) Psycholinguistics. In Ammon, U.,  Dittmar, N. & Mattheier, K. (eds.). Sociolinguistics. An International  Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. Berlin: De  Gruyter, 457‑474.

Weissenborn, J. (1988) Von der 'demonstratio ad oculos' zur 'Deixis am  Phantasma': Eine ontogenetische Untersuchung. In Eschbach, A.(ed.)  Karl Bühler's theory of language. Amsterdam ‑ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 257-276.

Weissenborn, J., Kail, M. & Friederici, A. (1990) Language particular or  language independent factors in acquisition? Children's  comprehension of object pronouns in Dutch, French and German. First Language 10, 141-166

Weissenborn, J. (1990) Subjektlose Sätze in der frühen Kindersprache. Ein  theoretisches und empirisches Problem der  Spracherwerbsforschung. Der Deutschunterricht 42, 35-47.

Roeper, T. & Weissenborn, J. (1990) How to make parameters work. In  Frazier, L. & deVilliers, J.(eds.) Language Processing and Language  Acquisition, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 147-162.

Weissenborn, J. (1990) Functional categories and verb movement in early  German. The acquisition of German syntax reconsidered. In Rothweiler, M. (ed.) Spracherwerb und Grammatik. Untersuchungen zum Erwerb von Syntax und Morphologie. Linguistische Berichte, Special Issue 3/1990, 190-224.

Weissenborn, J., Roeper, T. & de Villiers, J. (1991) The acquisition of Wh- movement in German and French. In: Maxfield, T.L. & Plunkett, B. (eds.) Papers in the Acquisition of WH. Proceedings of the University of Massuchusetts Roundtable, May 1990. University of  Massachusetts Occasional Papers. Special Edition, 43-78.

Friederici, A., Weissenborn, J., Lewandowski, C. & Stralka, R. (1991) Über  den Einfluss perzeptueller Defizite auf den Erwerb von  Raumausdrücken. Z. f. Entwicklungs- und Pädagogische Psychologie  23, 48-65.

Friederici, A., Weissenborn, J. & Kail, M. (1991) Phonological and syntactic  aspects in aphasics' pronoun comprehension. A crosslinguistic  analysis. Brain and Language 41, 289-310. 

Kail, M. & Weissenborn,J. (1991) Connnectives: Developmental issues. In  Pieraut‑Le Bonniec & Dolitsky (eds.) Language Basis: Discourse  Basis. Amsterdam ‑ Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 125-142.

Miller, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1991) Sprachliche Sozialisation. In:  Hurrelmann, K. & Ulich, D. (eds.) Handbuch der  Sozialisationsforschung. München: Psychologie Verlagsunion, 531- 549.

Weissenborn, J. (1992) Null subjects in early grammars: Implications for  parameter setting theories. In: Weissenborn, J., Goodluck, H. &  Roeper, T.(eds.) Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition.  Hillsdale, N.J.:Lawrence Erlbaum, 269-299.

Weissenborn, J., Goodluck, H. & Roeper, T. (1992) Introduction: Old and new  problems in the study of language acquisition. In: Weissenborn, J.,  Goodluck, H. & Roeper, T.(eds.) Theoretical Issues in Language  Acquisition. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1-23.

Weissenborn, J., Goodluck, H. & Roeper, T. (eds.) (1992) Theoretical Issues  in Language Acquisition. Continuity and Change in Development.  Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Verrips, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1992) Routes to verb placement in early German and French: The independence of finiteness and agreement. In Meisel, J.M. (ed.) The Acquisition of Verb Placement: Functional  Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Development. (Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics) Kluwer:Dordrecht, 283-331.

van Hout, A., Randall, J. & Weissenborn, J. (1993) Acquiring the  unergative-unaccusative distinction. In Verrips, M. & F. Wijnen, (eds.) The Acquisition of Dutch. Amsterdam Series in Child Language  Development, 1, 79-118.

Weissenborn, J. (1994) Constraining the child's grammar: Local wellformedness in the development of verb movement in German and  French. In Lust, B., Whitman, J., & Kornfilt, J. (eds.) Syntactic Theory  and Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic Pespectives. Vol.1:  Phrase Structure. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 215-247.

Penner, Z., Schönenberger, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1994) The acquisition of object placement in Early German and Swiss German. Linguistik in Potsdam 1, 93-108. Potsdam: Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.

Bennis, H., den Dikken, M., Jordens, P., Powers, S. & Weissenborn, J. (1995), Picking up particles. In D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Vol.1, 70-81. Boston, Cascadilla Press.

Weissenborn, J., Roeper, T., & de Villiers, J. (1995) WH-acquisition in French and German: Connections between case, wh-features and unique triggers. In Jakubowicz, C. (ed.) Grammaire Universelle et Acquisition du language (Recherches linguistiques de Vincennes, No.  25), Paris, PUF, 125-155.

Haverkort, M. & Weissenborn, J. (1995/96) Parameters and cliticization in early child German. Linguistics in Potsdam 2/3, 151-167.

Penner, Z. & Weissenborn, J. (1996) Strong continuity, parameter setting and the trigger hierarchy. On the acquisition of the DP in Bernese Swiss German and High German. In H. Clahsen (ed.) Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical Findings, Theoretical Considerations, Crosslinguistic Comparisons. Amsterdam, John Benjamins, 161-200.

Schönenberger, M., Penner, Z. & Weissenborn, J. (1997) Object placement and early German grammar. In M. Hu­ghes & A. Greenhill (Eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Annual Boston University  Conference on Language  Develop­ment, Vo­l.2. Somerv­ille, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 539-549. 

Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (1998) Sensitivity to closed‑class‑elements in preverbal children. In: A.Greenhill, M.Hughes, H.Littlefield, and H. Walsh (eds.) Proceedings of the 22 Annual Boston Conference on Language Development, Vol.1, Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 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, Learning: Rule Abstraction and Representation. W. de Gruyter, Berlin., 37-69.

Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J.,  Wermke, K. &  Wymann, K. (1999) Prävention, Früherkennung 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.) 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, Barbara, & Weissenborn, Jürgen (2000) The origins of syntactic knowledge: Recognition of determiners in one year old German children. In  Catherine Howell, Sarah Fish, & Thea Keth-Lucas (Eds.) Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston Conference on Language  Development, Somerville, Mass.: Cascadilla Press, 418-429.

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. Köln: Prolog, 29-50.

Nubel, K., Kruck, S., Höhle, B., Suhl, U., Weissenborn, J., Gross, M. (2003) Interaktion behavioraler und elektrophysiologischer Ergebnisse zur Phonemdiskrimination bei Säuglingen. In M. Gross & E. Kruse (Hrsg.) Aktuelle phoniatrisch-pädaudiologische Aspekte 2003/2004, Band 11. Heidelberg 2003: Median Verlag.

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, Barbara, Weissenborn, Jürgen, Dorothea Kiefer, Antje Schulz, & Michaela Schmitz (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, 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, 269-280.

Höhle, B., van de Vijver, R. & Weissenborn, J. (2006) Word processing at 19 months and 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 Belletti, A., Bennati, E., Chesi, C., DiDomenico, E., & Ferrari, I. (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Development. Proceedings of GALA 2005. pp. 379-392. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Friedericí, A.D. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) Mapping sentence form onto meaning: The syntax-semantic interface. Brain Research 1146, 50-59.

Berger, F., Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2007) German 4-year-olds’ comprehension of sentences containing the focus particle auch (also): Evidence from eyetracking. In H. Caunt-Nulton, S. Kulatilake, I. Woo (eds.) BUCLD 31: Proceedings of the 31st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Vol 1. pp. 105-116. Somerville M.A.: Cascadilla Press.

Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J. & Nazzi, T. (2007) The development of language specific prosodic preferences during the first year of life and its relation to later lexical development: Evidence from German and French infants.  In Proceedings of the 16th ICPhS, Saarbrücken, 1529 – 1532. 

Müller, A., Höhle, B. & Weissenborn, J. (2008) Teaching a new word: Properties of CDS to 12-month-old German-learning children. In S. Kern, F. Gayraud and E. Marsica (eds.) Emergence of Linguistic Abilities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Dietrich, R. & Weissenborn, J. (2008) Erwerbsprozesse im Erstspracherwerb und Zweitspracherwerb. In B.Ahrenholz, U. Bredel, W.Klein, M. Rost-Roth & R.Skiba (eds.) Empirische Forschung und Theoriebildung. Beiträge aus Soziolinguistik, Gesprochene-Sprache-und Zweitspracherwerbsforschung. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 217-226.

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, 373-399.

Höhle, B., Bijeljac-Babic, R., Herold, B., Weissenborn, J. & Nazzi, T. (2009) Language specific prosodic preferences during the first year of life: Evidence from German and French infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 32, 262-274.

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.

Penner, Z., Weissenborn, J., & Friederici, A.,  (2012 ) Sprachentwicklung. In H.-O.Karnath & P.Thier (Hrsg.) Kognitive Neurowissenschaften. 3. , aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 439-446.

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