Current projects

Consonant clusters in Croatian and Russian: Their genesis and relation to syllable structure (Habilitation project)

 

Processing German insertions in Russian-German bilingual speech: The role of frequency in lexical integration

Funded by the Internal Project Funding (FNK) of the University of Bamberg

Grant period: August 2025 – November 2026

Project partner: Jan Patrick Zeller (University of Oldenburg)

 

Advancing the typology of language mixing (publication project)

Funded by Villa Vigoni and DFG

Project partner: Eugenio Goria (University of Turin)

 

Completed projects

Variable syllable structure: An experimental study of Croatian and Russian

Funded by the Internal Project Funding (FNK) of the University of Bamberg

Grant period: February 2022 – November 2023

 

The syllable structure of the Old Novgorod dialect

Funded by the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service

Grant period: June 2020 – October 2020

 

Vernacular Kildin Saami as a fused lect

Project partner: Michael Rießler, (University of Eastern Finland)

 

Bilingual speech across three generations of speakers in the diaspora: Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian-German code-mixing in Western Austria

Funded by a University of Innsbruck young researcher grant 2018 (Nachwuchsförderungsprogramm der Universität Innsbruck 2018)

Grant period: August 2018 – Februar 2019

 

Explaining Russian-German code-mixing: A usage-based approach

PhD project conducted within and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) research training group 1624 Frequency effects in language, Univeristy of Freiburg

Grant period: November 2010 – October 2013