Projektdatenbank (ab 2004)

Projektnummer

0071891

Zusammenfassung

Language is individual. Individual speakers encounter linguistic input, build their own model of language based on this input, and produce language in their own individual style. No two people encounter exactly the same input, nor do they produce the same kind of language. This intuitive fact is currently not addressed in linguistic theory, and surprisingly, little is known about individual linguistic variation. This project aims to shed light on this issue by collecting dense amounts of information about individual language users: what kind of language they encounter, how they speak and write...