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Judith Tonhauser is a Full Professor in the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart, where she also serves as Vice Rector for Early Career Researchers and Diversity. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University (2006) and a Diploma in Computational Linguistics from the University of Stuttgart (2000). Previously, she held academic positions at The Ohio State University and fellowships at leading research institutions including the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford.
Her research investigates natural language meaning through theoretical, experimental, and computational approaches, focusing on projective content, prosody, temporal reference, and social meaning. She conducts cross-linguistic fieldwork on Paraguayan Guaraní and other understudied languages, employing methods like native speaker elicitation, corpus mining, and psycholinguistic experiments. Her work bridges semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive science.
Awarded the Linguistic Society of America's Early Career Award (2016) and Best Paper in Language (2014), she also received Humboldt and Burkhardt Fellowships. She teaches courses in semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, and sociolinguistics, and actively advises bachelor/master theses with experimental components.
