CV
Education
- B.A. in German Studies, University of Mannheim, 2015
- Semester abroad, Charles-University Prague, 2014
- M.Sc. in Linguistics, University of Potsdam, 2018
- Semester abroad, Lund University, 2016
- Ph.D. in Linguistics, The University of Edinburgh, 2022 (expected)
Grants & Awards
- CHSS/PPLS Research Award
- University of Edinburgh College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science/School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
- Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
Work experience
- 2020/2021 (Term 2): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Undergraduate seminar: LEL1B (Introduction to Linguistics part II)
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Honours seminar: Pragmatics
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Psychology)
- Undergraduate seminar: Research Methods and Statistics 2
- 2020/2021 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to Cognitive Science
- 2019/2020 (Term 2): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Undergraduate seminar: LEL1B (Introduction to Linguistics part II)
- 2019/2020 (Term 1): Teaching Assistant
- The University of Edinburgh (Department of Linguistics and English Language)
- Honours seminar: Sociolinguistics
- 2017/2018: Research Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Vasishth lab)
- Duties included: Conducting Eye Tracking, Self-paced reading and EEG Experiments
- 2017/2018: Teaching Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Department of Psycholinguistics)
- Graduate seminar: Eyetracking in Psycholinguistic research
- 2017/2018: Teaching Assistant
- University of Potsdam (Department of Psycholinguistics)
- Undergraduate seminar: Introduction to Language Processing
- 2014/2015: Research Assistant
- Institute of German Language (Mannheim)
- Duties included: Editing the leading German pronunciation dictionary (DUDEN)
- 2014: Internship
- Institute of German Language (Mannheim), Departments of Lexicology and Grammar
Publications
Talks
Du sprichst English? So do I: How German speakers align in their use of Anglicisms
Talk at 53rd Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), Tobias Ungerer, Alexandra Lorson, SLE 2020 platform
Expectations about discourse relevance can license direct objections to presupposed content
Talk at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental, and Computational Perspectives (DETEC), Alexandra Lorson, Hannah Rohde, Chris Cummins, Berlin, DE
When objecting to presupposed content comes easily
Talk at The 23rd Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial), Alexandra Lorson, Chris Cummins, Hannah Rohde, London, UK
The influence of world knowledge on projectivity: Listeners revise their gender stereotypes when processing presuppositions triggered by ‘stop’
Poster at 64th Language @ Edinburgh Lunch, Alexandra Lorson, Edinburgh, UK
Academic service
- 2019–2021: Member of the Meaning and Grammer Research Group Committee
- Department of Linguistics and English Language
- Organising bi-weekly presentations in the areas of syntax, semantics and pragmatics
- 2018/2019: Member of the Language @ Edinburgh Lunch Committee
- School of Informatics & School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- Organising bi-monthly poster presentation session on language-related research
- 2018/2019: Member of the XPrag Conference organising Committee
- The University of Edinburgh
- Organising the 8th Experimental Pragmatics conference