Researchers of our group focus on second language acquisition and speech and language therapy. These domains have in common that they need to ground teaching and therapy on both theoretical insights and empirical practice. Moreover, they intend to exploit the possibilities speech and language technology provides to test theoretical concepts and generate new research questions.
An important aim is to develop technological tools for specific communicative modes. A broad range of techniques and data sources is applied to test research hypotheses on the structure and functioning of communicative competences: spontaneous speech data, directed elicitation tasks, survey methods, computer modelling, protocolled therapy, experimentation and brain imaging.
