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Dr. Nele Hartung serves as a Lecturer in Modern German Linguistics at Saarland University, holding the position of Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben within the Department of Modern German Linguistics (Neuere deutsche Sprachwissenschaft). Based at Campus A2 2, Room 3.28 in Saarbrücken, she maintains academic contact through her office telephone (+49 681 302-3706) and email correspondence.
Her academic foundation includes a 2012 PhD in Linguistics from the University of Tübingen, where her dissertation investigated coordination phenomena in early German child language through corpus-based methodology.
Dr. Hartung's research program centers on empirical investigations of German first language acquisition, with particular emphasis on discourse markers (especially 'und'), syntactic structures like coordination and gapping, and developmental patterns in child language. Her methodological approach combines corpus linguistics using the Simone Corpus within CHILDES with experimental techniques to analyze acquisition trajectories.
Publication analysis reveals consistent scholarly engagement with German child language development across four major works (2008-2012), demonstrating progression from descriptive corpus studies toward integrated experimental-corpus methodologies. Her research consistently addresses how children acquire complex syntactic and pragmatic features in native German.
Teaching responsibilities form a significant component of her role, encompassing multiple sections of Introduction to Linguistics, specialized seminars on age factors in language acquisition, and exam preparation sessions conducted in collaboration with Dr. Philipp Rauth. Office hours are currently maintained exclusively through email communication.
