Elna Bauer

Elna Bauer is a doctoral researcher at the Leibniz Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, focusing on language development and multilingualism. She contributes to the BMBF-funded SPEAK project, standardizing language assessment tools like TEBIK 4-8 for multilingual children aged 4-8. Her work emphasizes language production, processing, and comprehension in German-speaking multilingual preschoolers, addressing factors influencing language acquisition.

Research Interests

• Language production and comprehension at sentence/text levels
• Influencing factors in multilingual language development
• Bilingualism and developmental language disorders
• Task design for language assessment

Her recent presentations highlight themes such as pronoun interpretation, narrative analysis in bilinguals, and morphosyntactic attraction errors. She collaborates on projects exploring syntactic complexity and working memory in language tasks.

Grants & Projects

• BMBF-funded SPEAK project (Berlin site)

She is affiliated with ZAS’s Research Area 2 on Language Development and Multilingualism and participates in interdisciplinary teams addressing language acquisition challenges.