On November 8, 2021, GS eal enjoyed a guest lecture by Dr. Ruth Kramer (Georgetown University) on "A crosslinguistic investigation of phonological gender assignment". A Distributed Morphology approach was used to argue against assigning a grammatical gender based on phonological features. The content was illustrated with the help of an Afro-Asian language and a Niger-Congo language.

In the doctoral colloquium, the doctoral candidates present the progress in their dissertation projects in approximately 20-30 minute presentations. Each presentation is followed by a discussion of about 10-20 minutes, in which the lecturers present comment on the project and give suggestions for further work.

The following doctoral students presented at the doctoral colloquium on July 29, 2021:

• Polina Kashkarova: "Linguistic Representation of Russians in the US Film Industry: Imitation of a Russian Accent"
• Rieke Siemon: "Konzeptualisierung und Verknüpfung von Bewegungsereignissen im Deutschen und Französischen"

On July 12, 2021, the PhD program welcomed Michael Franjieh, Greville G. Corbett, and Alexandra Grandison from the Surrey Morphology Group. The talk title was "Optimal Categorization: emergent gender in Oceania." Experimental studies were presented that document the emergence of a so-called gustatory system in a small language.

On July 9, 2021, Dr. Markus Rheindorf (University of Vienna) conducted a workshop on Academic Writing. As workshops specifically on academic writing in German had already been offered in previous semesters, the current workshop focused on English as a language of publication. Conventions of linguistics were also addressed. Methods for structuring one's own text and resources for working on style and grammar (for example, the British National Corpus) were discussed, among other things.

On July 5, 2021, Dr. Stefan Blohm from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics gave a lecture on "Empirical poetics: Experimental approaches to poetry and rhyme". Studies were presented in which questions of literary studies are examined from a new perspective using methods of neuro- and psycholinguistics.

In the summer semester of 2021, the GS eal invited four female scientists  to present their studies with a special focus on the design and implementation of digital experiments. This gave the PhD students the opportunity to get to know different formats and to deal with the technical as well as methodological challenges and opportunities.

June 16, 2021: Dr. Maria Mammen (Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munic)

June 30, 2021: Bianca Dietrich (University of Bremen)

July 7, 2021: Dr. Mireia Marimon (University of Potsdam)

July 19, 2021: Dr. Laura Reimer (University of Münster)

In the doctoral colloquium, the doctoral candidates present the progress in their dissertation projects in approximately 20-30 minute presentations. Each presentation is followed by a discussion of about 10-20 minutes, in which the lecturers present comment on the project and give suggestions for further work.

The following doctoral students presented at the doctoral colloquium on February 9, 2021:

• Oleksandra Kuzmenko: "Anthroponyms in online and offline gaming: cognitive and socio-onomastic approach"
• Sara Serroukh: "Cross-linguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition"
• Joy Steigler: "Sprachprestige und Glaubhaftigkeitsattribution: Zum Einfluss bildungssprachlicher Merkmale auf die Beurteilung schriftlicher Zeugenaussagen"
• David Wirthmüller: "Genus im Deutschen Erstspracherwerb"