PD Dr. Gerrit Kentner


Institut für Linguistik Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Tel: 069-798-32393 — E-Mail: kentner[AT]lingua.uni-frankfurt.de


About me






My main research interest is in the area of prosody with its interfaces to phonetics and the core linguistic areas of morphology, syntax, and pragmatics. A particular focus of my work is the role of prosody in written language processing and reading. I mainly work on German.
I strive to integrate a grammar-theoretical and a psycholinguistic perspective on prosody and its neighbouring areas. Using a variety of empirical and formal methods, I investigate the interplay of these areas in written and oral language processing at the word, sentence, and text levels.
As an accomplished user of modern statistical techniques in both frequentist and Bayesian frameworks, I have extensive experience in the analysis of complex data sets in the areas of speech production, eye movements, acceptability studies, and corpus studies. I use data obtained in experiments for both linguistic and psycholinguistic model building and for understanding the interaction between oral and written language.
My linguistic profile is distinguished by interdisciplinary exchanges with researchers in cognitive psychology and literary studies.
I have led numerous research projects and many years of experience in supervising BA, MA, and PhD students.