PhD: Anna Hagel on sound correspondences

One week and a half ago, Anna Hagel successfully defended her PhD thesis Phonological schematicity in Interscandinavian decoding. A psycholinguistic constructionist approach to investigating the acquisition and use of Danish-Swedish sound correspondence patterns at Kiel University.

In her work, she combines a Diasystematic Construction Grammar perspective with experimental research on the acquisition (and learnability) of interlingual sound correspondence patterns. This also makes her one of the first people to apply Construction Grammar to phonological phenomena, and, among other things, show that (and how) it can be done.

Congratulations!