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Prof. Dr. Frank Domahs is a Professor of Applied Linguistics - Psycholinguistics at the University of Erfurt's Faculty of Philosophy and serves as Vice Dean for Research. He leads the Chair of Linguistics focusing on psycholinguistics and is affiliated with the certified graduate center 'Sprachbeherrschung' and the Department of Linguistics. His academic career includes extensive research in language processing, aphasia therapy, and neurolinguistics.
Research interests span psycholinguistics, clinical linguistics, and neurophysiological foundations of language. Notable areas include word stress processing, numerical cognition, and rehabilitation of language disorders. He has contributed to influential studies such as the randomized trial on intensive aphasia therapy (The Lancet, 2017) and the development of diagnostic tools like the ESKOPA-TM material for assessing arithmetic disorders.
Teaching focuses on clinical linguistics, language acquisition, and neurolinguistics. Recent courses include 'Diagnostics of linguistic abilities,' 'Neurolinguistics,' and 'Word prosody analysis.' His work emphasizes evidence-based interventions for speech disorders and cross-linguistic studies in language development.
Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches to language processing, combining behavioral experiments and neuroimaging. Key themes include the interaction of prosody, morphology, and semantics, as well as the cognitive underpinnings of numerical and linguistic systems. His research has been published in journals like Brain and Language, Frontiers in Psychology, and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.
