Program

Thematic courses

• Intonation and word order 
  Prof. Dr. Caroline Féry (Frankfurt University)
• Focus, Givenness, Topic: Prosodic effects and interactions with syntax
  Prof. Dr. Michael Wagner (McGill University)
• Focus and the syntax-phonology interface from a theoretical and experimental perspective
  Dr. Kriszta Szendröi (University College London)

Introductions to relevant scientific methods 

• Introduction to Praat
  Mag.phil. Petra Hödl, MSc. (Graz University) 
• Experimental methods for investigating the prosody-information structure interface
  Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. phil. Dina El Zarka (Graz University)
• Experimental data in information structure research. 
  Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Steffen Heidinger (Graz University)

Evening lectures:

• On the meaning of nuclear and prenuclear Accents
  PD Dr. Stefan Baumann (Cologne University)
• Worlds and Models in Alternative Semantics
  Prof. Dr. Thomas Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt University)