2018–2023 (PI) Child second language acquisition after age 6, Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Hesse

2014–2018 (External Collaborator) The development of syntactic recursion in preschool-aged children: a cross-linguistic approach (PI: A. Pérez-Leroux, U. Toronto), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

2013–2016 (Co-Applicant) Cooperation with N. Friedmann (Tel Aviv University) and A. Pérez-Leroux (U of Toronto), German academic exchange program (DAAD)

2011–2017 (PI) CARU: Acquisition of (non-)restrictive relative clauses, part of the DFG-Research group on Relative Clauses

2011–2015 (PI) Cammino: Multilingualism in kindergarten and primary school, Ministry for education and research (BMBF) and European Social fonds (ESF)

2011–2014 (PI) PROfessio: Professionalization of language training teachers for multilingual children, IDeA center, Hesse Excellency Grant LOEWE

2011–2014 (Co-Applicant) A study of the language of Russian-Hebrew and Russian-German migrant children in preschool and school years, German-Israeli-Foundation (GIF)

2009–2013 (Group Leader w/T. Marinis) Language Impairment in a multilingual society: Linguistic patterns and the road to assessment, EU COST IS0804 (PI:  Sharon Armon-Lotem)

2008–2014 (PI) MILA: Relationship between migration background and language impairment in children’s language achievement, IDeA center, LOEWE

2008–2011 (PI) Language assessment and language training in monolingual and bilingual children, Hertie Foundation and Goethe University Frankfurt

2006–2010 (Group Leader) Crosslinguistic robust stages of children’s linguistic performance with application to language assessment, EU COST A 33,  (PI: Uli Sauerland)

2005–2010 (Co-PI) Development and norming of the language test LiSe-DaZ (mit R. Tracy), Baden-Württemberg Foundation and Hogrefe publishing house

The acquisition of Semantics. Linguistics Summer School of the DGfS (German Linguistics Society), Tübingen, Germany (August 2016).

Selected International Plenary Lectures

Zur Semantik von Verben im Spracherwerb. 53. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache „Wortschätze: Dynamik, Muster, Komplexität.“ IDS Mannheim (March 2017).

Telicity in SLI. Workshop on Complexity in Acquisition, University of Toronto (May 2016).

Semantic aspects in the acquisition of wh-questions. Workshop on Non-Canonical Questions and Interface Issues. University of Konstanz, Germany (February 2014).

Differences between typically developing children and children with SLI in a bilingual context: Exhaustivity. Final COST IS0804 Conference on Child Language Impairment in Multilingual Context. Kraków, Poland (May 2013).

What we can learn from research on child second language acquisition. Workshop on Heritage languages (in Germany), University of Stuttgart (November 2012).

Language assessment of bilingual children – Why a monolingual norm is not fair. Joint workshop of the University of Toronto and Goethe-University Frankfurt, The Role of Institutional Practices for Building Successful Multicultural Societies, University of Toronto, Canada (June 2012).

Wer versteht wann was? Sprachverstehen im frühen Zweitspracherwerb des Deutschen. 48. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) Mannheim, Germany (March 2012).

How to disentangle SLI from successive bilingualism: Evidence from comprehension studies in German. Workshop on Bilingualism and Specific Language Impairment, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (February 2009).

Some notes on Semantics and SLI. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), Lisbon, Portugal (September 2009).

Language comprehension in bilingualism and SLI. Workshop Windows on Inflection, Amsterdam, Netherlands (December 2008).