Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Leibniz-Gemeinschaft

Dr. Nathalie Topaj

CV

  • since 10/2022
    Researcher in Research Area 2 "Language Development and Multilingualism" & BIVEM Coordinator, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
  • 24/08/2018
    Doctorate (at the Freie Universität Berlin until 03/2014, then at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), dissertation topic:  Grammatical and pragmatical use of referential expressions in picture stories of bilingual and monolingual children in Russian and German
  • 10/2016 - 12/2021
    Researcher in the Interdisciplinary Research Network (IFV) & BIVEM Coordinator, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Coordination & Project Management
  • 10/2011 - 09/2016
    Doctoral researcher at the Berlin Interdisciplinary Network for Multilingualism (BIVEM), Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, coordination & project management
  • 01/2011 - 04/2011
    Doctoral researcher in the project Migration and Societal Integration, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 02/2010 - 05/2010
    Doctoral researcher in the project Discourse cohesive agents in language acquisition, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin,
  • 10/2009 - 09/2011
    Associate researcher in the COMENIUS project Friendly Resources for Playful Speech Therapy (FREPY), Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Management &bsp;Coordination of the German side of the project
  • 09/2009 - 12/2009
    Scholarship holder, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin
  • 09/2007 - 08/2009
    Doctoral researcher in the project Language acquisition as a prerequisite for the social integration of Russian-speaking children with a migration background in Germany and Israel, Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Coordination of the German side of the project
  • 11/2004 - 07/2007
    Own research project Topik as part of the information structure in the oral discourse of Russian-speaking learners of German, on the basis of the project Language integration of Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany and Israel, Freie Universität Berlin
  • 10/2003 - 10/2004
    German Studies, German as a Foreign Language, Adult Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • 06/1999 - 09/2003
    Parental leave
  • 04/1997 - 04/1999
    English Studies, Romance Studies, Degree: M. A. Master Thesis: The Mental Lexicon in Adult Bilinguals, Universität Mannheim
  • 08/1993 - 03/1997
    French and English linguistics and literature, philosophy (language and thinking), degree: B. A., University of Haifa, Israel