Dr. Merle Weicker

Merle Weicker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psycholinguistics and Didactics of German (Goethe University Frankfurt). Her research focuses on child first and second language acquisition. She is particularly interested in language acquisition at the semantics-syntax interface, i.e., how children assign meaning to words and sentences, and in the relationship between linguistic and cognitive development. To this end, I experimentally investigate how certain linguistic and gestural expressions affect language comprehension.