Project Participants
Prof. Dr. Annika Herrmann
(Principal Investigator)
University of Hamburg
annika.herrmann@uni-hamburg.de
Annika Herrmann is a professor for Sign Languages and Sign Language Interpreting at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS) at Universität Hamburg. Her research interests are theoretical and empirical sign language research, as well as experimental psycholinguistics. She received her PhD from University of Frankfurt am Main in 2010. After receiving her PhD, she was the Director of the Experimental Sign Language Lab at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, has worked as a substitute professor for linguistics at the University of Cologne, and as a research assistant in an EEG-project at the University of Mainz. Annika Herrmann is co-director of the DGS-Korpus project and also co-editor of the series ‘Sign Languages and Deaf Communities’.
Selected publications
- Herrmann, A. & M. Steinbach. 2019. Expressive Gesten – expressive Bedeutungen. Expressivität in gebärdensprachlichen Erzählungen. In d’Avis, F. & R. Finkbeiner (eds.), Expressivität im Deutschen. Berlin: de Gruyter, 313–337.
- Herrmann, A. & N.-K. Pendzich. 2018. Between narrator and protagonist in fables of German Sign Language. In Hübl, A. & M. Steinbach (eds.), Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 275–308.
- Herrmann, A. & N.-K. Pendzich. 2014. Nonmanual gestures in sign languages. In Müller, C., A. Cienki, E. Fricke, S. H. Ladewig, D. McNeill & J. Bressem (eds.), Handbook Body – Language – Communication. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2147–2160.
- Quer, J., R. Pfau & A. Herrmann. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of theoretical and experimental sign language research. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Wienholz, A., D. Nuhbalaoglu, M. Steinbach, A. Herrmann & N. Mani. 2021. Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the visual world paradigm. Sign Language & Linguistics 24(1). 4– 35.
Prof. Dr. Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber
(Principal Investigator)
University of Hamburg
barbara.Haenel-faulhaber@uni-hambuerg.de
Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber is a professor for sign language pedagogy and audio pedagogy at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on the acquisition and processing of German and German Sign Language among different learner groups and its impact on learning for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. She received her Mag-Phil in special education from the LMU Munich and in sign language from the University of Hamburg. In 2004 she obtained her PhD in sign language at the University of Hamburg.
Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber is co-director of the research center “Literacy in Diversity Settings” at the Faculty of Education, University of Hamburg.
Selected publications
- Hänel-Faulhaber, B., & Weiglin, E. (2024). Bimodal-bilinguale Sprachförderung und Sprachtherapie – eine bezugswissenschaftliche Grundlegung. Frühförderung interdisziplinär, 43(3), 119–134. https://doi.org/10.2378/fi2024.art12d
- Goppelt-Kunkel, M., Stroh, A.-L., & Hänel-Faulhaber, B. (2023). Sign learning of hearing children in inclusive day care centers—Does iconicity matter? Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1196114
- Goppelt-Kunkel, M., Wienholz, A., & Hänel-Faulhaber, B. (2022). Sign learning and its use in a co-enrollment kindergarten setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.920497
- Hänel-Faulhaber, B., Groen, M. A., Röder, B., & Friedrich, C. K. (2022). Ongoing Sign Processing Facilitates Written Word Recognition in Deaf Native Signing Children. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 917700. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.917700
- Schüler, M., Stroh, A.-L., & Hänel-Faulhaber, B. (2021). Gebärden in inklusiven Kitas–erste Ergebnisse einer Langzeitstudie. Sprache· Stimme· Gehör, 45(02), 98–102.
- Stroh, A.-L., Rösler, F., Dormal, G., Salden, U., Skotara, N., Hänel-Faulhaber, B., & Röder, B. (2019). Neural correlates of semantic and syntactic processing in German Sign Language. NeuroImage, 200, 231–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.06.025.
Anne Wienholz
(Postdoc Researcher)
University of Hamburg
anne.wienholz@uni-hamburg.de
Anne Wienholz is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project “Coactivating the difference in the verbal domain of German Sign Language: A developmental perspective at signers processing signing and reading (CoDiPro)” (DFG) with Prof. Annika Herrmann at the University of Hamburg. After obtaining her PhD, she worked as a Research Associate in the Language Acquisition and Visual Attention (LAVA) Lab at Boston University, before joining the University of Hamburg in 2020. In her work, she investigates sign language processing and sign language production in child and adult signers with diverse language backgrounds using experimental approaches such as eye tracking and EEG. Anne Wienholz received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Linguistics from the University of Leipzig and her PhD from the University of Göttingen.
Selected publications
- Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu-Ayan, D., Mani, N., Herrmann, A., Onea, E., & Steinbach, M. (2023). Neurophysiological evidence for the first mention effect during pronominal reference resolution in German Sign Language. Sign Language & Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.22006.wie.
- Rubio-Fernandez, P., Wienholz, A., Ballard, C. M., Kirby, S., & Lieberman, A. M. (2022). Adjective position and referential efficiency in American Sign Language: Effects of adjective semantics, sign type and age of sign exposure. Journal of Memory and Language, 126, 104348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2022.104348
- Wienholz, A., Nuhbalaoglu, D., Steinbach, M., Herrmann, A., & Mani, N. (2021). Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm. Sign Language & Linguistics, 24(1), 4–35. https://doi.org/10.1075/sll.19011.wie
Janika Stille
(PhD Candidate)
University of Hamburg
janika.stille@uni-hamburg.de
Janika Stille is a doctoral researcher in the DFG-funded project “Coactivating the difference in the verbal domain of German Sign Language: A developmental perspective at signers processing signing and reading (CoDiPro)” with Prof. Barbara Hänel-Faulhaber at the University of Hamburg. In her work, she investigates sign language processing in child and adult signers with diverse language backgrounds using experimental approaches such as eye-tracking and EEG. Janika Stille received both, her Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature, and well as her Master’s degree in Sign Languages, from the University of Hamburg.
Selected publications
- Thies, J. (2023, April 27). Processing spatial information during perspective-taking in German Sign Language (DGS): Methodological issues in eye-tracking [Presentation]. Workshop: Whose view is it?: From cognitive to philosophical approaches to perspective-taking, University of Cambridge.
- Thies, J., Wienholz, A., & Herrmann, A. (2021, June 2). The influence of palm orientation modification on spatial processing of lexicalized signs – an eye-tracking study on DGS [Poster]. 9th Meeting of the Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST 2021), Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Project Description
CoDiPro is a cooperative project at the University of Hamburg between the Institute for German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS) and the Department of Education for People with a Hearing Impairment/Sign Language (D2L, EW). We investigate the development of bimodal-bilingual co-activation patterns of German Sign Language (DGS) and German (reading). Deaf and hearing impaired adults as well as deaf students with various language backgrounds will participate in EEG studies. This project aims to gain insight into the development of potential co-activation patterns. The results are intended to feed into developing concepts to effectively promote reading competencies in deaf and hearing impaired children.
The project is funded by the DFG (project number 515745157)