Ongoing projects

• Subproject Real-time register comprehension in adolescent heritage speakers’ languages (CRC 1412-Register C03) in area C "Register and cognition" of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 1412 “Register”: Language Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation.
• BMBF project Diagnosis of language abilities in multilingual children: Validation of a test battery (with Prof. Angela Grimm, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität; Prof. Tanja Rinker, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; Prof. Anna-Lena Scherger, Technische Universität Dortmund)

Finished projects

• DFG project RUEG P10 - Dynamics of Verbal Aspect and (Pro)Nominal Reference in Language Contact (with Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Artemis Alexiadou, HU Berlin/ZAS and Prof. Dr. Luka Szucsich, HU Berlin) in the Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach" (2021-2025)
• NFRF project Immigrants - Sociocultural and linguistic practices and needs of immigrant communities: the pandemic impact and post-pandemic recovery (with Prof. Dr. Veronika Makarova & Valery Chirkov, University of Saskatchewan, Alla Nedashkivska, University of Alberta, Lana Soglasnova, University of Toronto) (2023-2025)
• Evaluation of the "First Language Teaching" program at Berlin schools, funded by the Berlin Senate Departement (2022-2024)
• DFG project RUEG P3 - Nominal Morphosyntax and Word Position in Heritage-Russian in the Context of Different Majority Languages with Luka Szucsich (2018-2021)
• Funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Technologie und Forschung: Interdisciplinary Research Alliance (IFV): Language Development of Elementary School Children with Migrant Backgrounds with Manfred Krifka (2016-2021)
• DFG project DRUSLI 2 - Bilingual children in transition from kindergarten to primary school: development of their literacy skills (DRUSLI) with Katrin Lindner, LMU München (2016 - 2020)
• DFG project DRUSLI 1 - Verbal and non-verbal indicators to identify circumscribed language development disorders in successively bilingual kindergarten children with Katrin Lindner, LMU München (2013 - 2016)
• Funded by the European Commission: DiscourseBiSLI - Discourse coherence in bilingualism and SLI (2012 - 2015)
• Funded by the GIF: Tell_Imp - How Can a Teacher Tell If a Bilingual Child Has Language Impairment with Solveig Chilla, Universität Erfurt (2012 - 2015)
• BMBF project PB 2 - Discourse-cohesive means in mono- and bilingual language acquisition, coordination (2011 - 2019)
• Funded by Senate of Berlin: BIVEM – Berlin Interdisciplinary Network for Multilingualism with Manfred Krifka (2011-2016)
• Funded by the Education and Culture DG Lifelong Learning Programme: FREPY - Friendly Resources for Playful Speech Therapy (2009 - 2012)
• Funded by the BMBF: BILINGUAL - Language Acquisition as a Window to Social Integration among Russian Language Minority Children in Germany and Israel (2007 - 2010)