Completed Master's theses

2025

• KAVALDZHIEVA, Mariya. Die Auswirkungen von Mehrsprachigkeit auf Demenz.
• RICHTER, Nina: Processing of German wooden path structures in older and younger adults - a reading time experiment. 

2024

• GÖSWEINER, Antonia. Facial Expressions and Gestures in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition.
• HOCHREITER, Clara. Aphasia diagnostics in a linguistically and culturally diverse context.
• REITINGER, Daphne. A Cognitive Approach to Borrowing: German Loans in Sinti-Manuš Romani.

2023

• BASKIR, Sonja. The word formation of the adjective in late German language acquisition.
• MOSER, Margarita. Language perception in premature babies. Effects of prematurity on prosodic perception in early language acquisition.
• OBERFORCHER, Katharina. Function and status of dialect in the repertoire of Tyrolean men and women.

2022

• EGGER, Mathias. The role of personal pronouns in the acquisition of German transitive constructions.
• KUNTER, Carina. Processes of language processing in primary progressive aphasia.
• RANKOVIC, Lidija. Functional-grammatical structure of the verb system in Moroccan Arabic. A corpus analysis.

2021

• CHRISTIAN, Sophie. On the systematics of actants marked on the Moroccan Arabic verb.
• FRANK, Victoria. Sign language discourse: Narrative competences of deaf children in Austrian Sign Language.
• SIMIĆ, Jelena. The sociolinguistic status of the Slovene language in Carinthia.
• TRAMMER, Elisabeth Ruth. Etymology and historical semantics. A current survey illustrated by the New High German adjective "weise".

2020

• EGGER, Maria, Anna. Japanese vowel reduction and its effects on syllable structure.
• KRAFTL, Gabriele. Language attitudes of parents towards dialect and standard language.
• SCHWAIGER, Christiane. The use of the adjective in early language acquisition.

2019

• EDER, Ulrike. Prosodic characteristics of irony in Austrian Standard German. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of intonation contours.
• GSPANDL, Julia. The Acquisition of Depicting Handshapes in Austria Sign Language.
• JANKRIFT, Melanie. Educational success of children with a migration background.
• WURZINGER, Melanie. Sociophonological variation in regional radio.
• ZACH, Lena. Becoming the Object: Constructed Action and Constructed Dialogue in Sign Languages - gestural stylistic device or obligatory phenomenon?

2018

• MAYER, Gabriela. "Can language hide thoughts?" - Style analysis in forensic linguistics.
• URCAN, Andrea. Community-beneficial outcomes of Language Documentation Projects in Latin America. An investigation of pro-jects funded by the ELDP.
• ZAHRER, Alexander. Sexualised speech online. A corpus linguistic study of reviews of prostitution in an Austrian online Forum.

2017

• EIBLER, Wolfgang. Information status of nominal referents in Egyptian Arabic.
• FUCHS, Barbara. Online newspaper articles in easy and simple language - a corpus analysis.
• OTTO, Irmingard. The use of German by Albanian native speakers in Graz. A case study.
• PURKARTHOFER, Antonia. Linguistic varieties and emotions. Variants of linguistic expression with regard to lexical, gestural, mimic and auditory aspects of anger based on a case study on the candidates and jurors of the Austrian and US-American versions of the reality shows Austia's Next Topmodel and America's Next Topmodel.
• VOGELTANZ, Maximilian. Reviews of the works of Hugo Schuchardt and their significance for linguistics.

2016

• BRUNNER, Jennifer. On object marking in Pame Central and beyond.
• KÖHLER, Nora. Language attitudes to variants of German in the theatre. Using the example of the independent theatre scene in Graz.
• TRETTENBREIN, Patrick C. Neuronal Dynamics, Memory, & Language: A Cognitive (Neuro-)Science Perspective on LanguageAttrition.

2015

• SEMLER, Sandrine. Language in Williams-Beuren syndrome.

2014

• HOBEL, Bettina. Dialectal use of German as second language.
• KORB, Christina. Language attitudes and migration.
• MELETIS, Dimitrios. Psycholinguistic aspects of graphetics: The relevance of the form and materiality of writing.
• SCHRANK, Tobias. Identifying relevant cues for uncertainty in dialogue.
• SEIFTER, Thorsten. August Schleicher as a link between linguistics and natural science in the 19th century.