Blog CRC1646

Shravani Patil, a PhD student from project A03, conducted a research visit at the Linguistics Department in University of Mumbai, India from 3rd to 20th November 2025. She had the opportunity to collect data on site at the Language Documentation Lab at the university. Her former colleagues at the University, Dr. Renuka Ozarkar and Dr. Avinash Pandey provided a huge support in setting up the lab and helping to recruit participants. (See also the report by Renuka Ozarkar on her research stay as a visiting scholar at our CRC last year.)

This visit was very important from the perspective of the A03 project as one of the tasks in the project dealt with collecting data in an interactive set up. The experiment was set up in two tasks using PsyToolkit. One of the tasks used audio stimuli to investigate prominence perception in Hindi and Urdu, while the other employed visual stimuli in an interactive scenario in which participants engaged with a confederate and selected images on a screen based on the confederate’s input.

The data collected in this research visit will be further analyzed to answer important questions in the field of information structure and prominence perception. Shravani's visit has proved to be significant in fulfilling the research goals of one of the work packages in project A03. The interactive task in a controlled set up will prove to be a great addition for linguistic creativity research. The A03 project members aim to set up a similar task in Hungarian to have possibilities of a cross linguistic analysis.

Rajabai Tower on the main campus of the Universitiy of Mumbai

photo: A. Savin © commons.wikimedia.org

Shravani Patil (A03) photo: Sascha Hermannski © SFB 1646

Project A03:

front row from left to right: Shravani Patil, Jutta Hartmann & Ákos Búza

back row from left to right: Farhat Jarbeen & Petra Wagner

photo: Sascha Hermannski © SFB