Department of Linguistics

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Welcome to our new website, launched in May 2025!

Invitation to the Hermann Paul Lecture 2025 on the 03.07.2025, given by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank on the topic “Human-centered LLMs for Inclusive Language Technology”. Further information can be found here.
Application Portal Now Open! Applications for the Master’s programme Linguistics: Language, Communication & Cognition are now being accepted. The deadline is 5 July for non-EU applicants and 15 September for EU applicants. More information about the application process can be found here.
A recent newspaper article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine about Kera’a featuring Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl: Wenn Fenster des Denkens erblinden.
Interview with Prof. Dr. Uta Reinöhl in the Badische Zeitung on endangered languages in connection with our exhibition Zur Sprache Kommen.
The lecture series Language, Communication & Cognition by the HPCL will continue in the winter semester 2024/25. You can find all dates here.
Master’s Programme: Linguistics: Language, Communication & Cognition – The new Master’s programme Linguistics: Language, Communication & Cognition started in the winter semester 2023/24. The programme is interdisciplinary and organised collaboratively by the linguistic departments in Freiburg. Depending on the chosen specialisation, it can also be studied entirely in English.
All information about the programme and available specialisations can be found here.

Becker, Laura & Guzmán Naranjo, Matías. 2025. Replication and methodological robustness in typology. Linguistic Typology aop. (doi:10.1515/lingty-2023-0076)
Guzmán Naranjo, Matías & Becker, Laura & Schiele, Miriam L. & Lin, I-Ying. 2025. Why modelling space is hard: No evidence for a serial founder effect in Polynesian phoneme inventories. Linguistics aop. (doi:10.1515/ling-2024-0016)
Becker, Laura. 2024. Levshina, Natalia. 2022. Communicative Eﬃciency: Language Structure and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Linguistic Typology 28(2). 367–378. (doi:10.1515/lingty-2024-0013)
Becker, Laura. 2024. Zero marking in inflection: A token-based approach. Journal of Language Modelling 12(2). 349–413. (doi:10.15398/jlm.v12i2.361)
Contzen, Eva von, Stefan Pfänder, Uta Reinöhl, Uta & Maria Sulimma. “Repetition, again. Cross-disciplinary Approaches to Practices and Forms of Repeating.” DIEGESIS. Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research Interdisziplinäres / E-Journal für Erzählforschung 13.2 (2024). 138–159. doi: 10.25926/dr7c-jt58
Peck, Naomi & Laura Becker. 2024. Syntactic pausing? Re-examining the associations. Linguistics Vanguard. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0156
Reinöhl, Uta and Ellison, T. Mark. “Metaphor forces argument overtness” Linguistics, AoP, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0072

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