Katrine Falcon Søby

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• Research outputs
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Primary fields of research

• Grammatical anomalies, Danish as a second language, corpus linguistics
• Processing of grammatical anomalies, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics

Current research

My PhD project has the working title: ”Convention-breaking grammar: A corpus- and psycholinguistic study of L1 and L2 speakers’ production and processing of grammatical anomalies”.

I’m affiliated with the research group ”Broken Grammar and Beyond” (BGB), lead by Line Burholt Kristensen. In the BGB group, we investigate naturally occurring grammatical anomalies, e.g. anomalous word order or inflectional suffixes, in texts written by L1 and L2 speakers of Danish. We combine the study of Danish as second language with psycho- and neurolinguistic methods.

The PhD project consists of two parts: a corpus-linguistic and a psycholinguistic. First, I investigate the types and frequencies of grammatical anomalies that occur in texts from L2 speakers of Danish. Based on the findings in the corpus study, I select some of the most frequent grammatical anomalies as stimuli in psycholinguistic reading experiments (I also include grammatical anomalies from L1 texts). The aim is to find out how native speakers react to different types of grammatical anomalies by measuring reading times and text comprehension.

Selected publications

1. Published

   Er det hip som hap?

   Søby, Katrine Falcon, 2012, In: Mål og Mæle. 35, 1, p. 25-30 6 p.

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article

Selected activities

1. Do musicians develop brain ‘modules’ that enhance structure-processing performance in multiple domains - including language?

   Søby, Katrine Falcon (Speaker), Boye, Kasper (Other), Kristensen, Line Burholt (Other) & Harder, Peter (Other)

   Oct 2015

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution

2. Do musicians develop brain ‘modules’ that enhance structure-processing performance in multiple domains - including language?

   Søby, Katrine Falcon (Other), Boye, Kasper (Speaker), Kristensen, Line Burholt (Other) & Harder, Peter (Other)

   Sep 2015

   Activity: Talk or presentation types › Lecture and oral contribution