Linguist Marcel Schlechtweg appointed

Dr. Marcel Schlechtweg has been appointed Junior professor of English Linguistics, Language Acquisition and Language Processing at the Institute of English and American Studies. As a postdoctoral research fellow, he headed the language laboratory at the University of Kassel.

Schlechtweg studied English and American Studies, Romance Studies and Educational Science in Kassel. His studies took him to Bordeaux, France, as well as Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA. He continued to focus on linguistics in his doctoral project on the acquisition of complex linguistic constructions in German, English and French, which he completed at the University of Kassel in 2017.

Among Schlechtweg’s research inte-rests is the role and function of fine acoustic and phonetic details in the language system. In the context of the Hearing4all Cluster of Excellence he plans to focus intensively on these aspects and at the same time establish a link to speech perception.