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Jana Hosemann is a research associate and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Göttingen, affiliated with the Department of German Philology. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Göttingen Sign Language Research Team, conducting interdisciplinary studies at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and sign language processing.
- Education: Completed a voluntary social year at the Albert Gutzman School for the Deaf in Berlin; pursued studies with a focus on psycholinguistics, sign language linguistics, and philosophy of language; completed her master's thesis at the University of Frankfurt.
Research Focus: Jana specializes in psycho- and neurolinguistic investigations of sign languages, particularly German Sign Language (DGS). Her work explores how grammatical and lexical knowledge is stored and processed in sign languages, the impact of modality-related differences on cognitive processing, and cross-linguistic comparisons between sign languages in Europe and globally. Notably, she has investigated semantic and morpho-syntactic processing in DGS in collaboration with the University of Mainz and phonological priming effects in DGS and German (L2) with the University of Göttingen's Psychology Institute.
Projects: Since 2016, she has contributed to the EU Horizon 2020 project The Sign Hub, focusing on preserving and advancing the linguistic, historical, and cultural heritage of European Deaf communities. Previously, she collaborated with the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF) on a project analyzing non-manual components in conditional sentences across German and Israeli Sign Languages.
- Contact: Email: jana.hosemann@phil.uni-goettingen.de
