CRC 1646

C01: Producing and understanding creative word formations

C01 investigates the underlying cognitive processes involved in the production and comprehension of novel word formations like Dunkelflaute (lit. "dark wind lull", "neither wind nor sunlight") or Juniversum (a blend of June and universe). Combined experimentation will link the two processing sides, e.g., by using elicited productions as stimuli for comprehension experiments. We examine the role of individual differences in cognition by comparing creative language use in speaker groups with different cognitive capacities (e.g., mono-/multilingual speakers, speakers with/without cognitive impairment), thus allowing linguistic creativity to be integrated into psycholinguistic models.

Scientific Events

• 27–29 May 2026 | Workshop “Priming, Analogy, and Linguistic Creativity (PALC)”, Bielefeld University | Report
• 8–9 September 2025 | Workshop “Psycholinguistics of Lexical Creativity”, Bielefeld University | Report

Conference Attendance

• 2–4 September 2026 | Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2026), Saarbrücken
• 31 August–2 September 2026 | 11th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Bielefeld
• 6–8 July 2026 | International Word Processing Conference (WoProc 2026), Lisbon (Portugal) | Report
• 18–21 June 2026 | 22nd International Morphology Meeting (IMM22), Budapest (Hungary) | Report
• 12–13 May 2026 | Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) goes to Pavia 2026, Pavia (Italy) | Report
• 5 February 2026 | CELISO 2026 annual doctoral colloquium, Paris (France) | Report

Public Events

• 6 October 2025 | Participatory event "Bielefeld – Liebefeld: Wie wir mühelos zu neuen Wörtern kommen" as part of the SFB event series "Fazination Sprache", led by Jana Häussler and Amelie Ewald, VHS Bielefeld | Report