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Guidelines for students
If you are interested in writing a thesis with our group, please first go through the information on our website and the following guidelines.
General steps to take:
Check our websites for ongoing projects and research topics
Write an abstract with a project idea
Meet with supervisor(s) to discuss topic and research question
Write meeting notes and send them to us
Register your thesis with the examination office
Send us your thesis outline
Schedule a second supervision meeting with concrete questions
Send us line of argumentation and results graphs before thesis submission
Write and submit your thesis
All thesis student should attend the Language and Communication colloquium and the Linguistics Circle offered starting in the winter term 2024.
Go through the Stud.IP course materials on “Experimenting with language” and "Writing like a language scientist" https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/writing-centre/materials/exercises/ and take a look at the following guidelines and resources!
General guidelines for doing an experiment:
Identify topic and research question
What phenomenon would you like to study? Why?
What is the gap in the existing theoretical and experimental literature?
Develop hypothesis based on theoretical research/model/previous research
Operationalization: Develop study design
Method/task (oriented on previous research)
Number of items and participants depends on method, number of manipulated variables, previous findings
Determine what statistical test will be used depending on design
(Do a power analysis to determine sample size)
Create list of stimuli
Implement experiment program and items
Run study on participant pool (on PCIBEX and prolific for online experiments, student list for in-lab studies or childcare center for acquisition studies)
Analyse data
Check the following documentation for doing online experiments with PCIBEX:
Contact our lab manager Zeynep Bolluk zbolluk@uni-osnabrueck.de for ongoing in-lab studies
Collection of books and resources for linguistics, experiment design and data analysis:
Linguistics introductions (online lecture series and books)
https://ukhtt3nee.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/an_introduction_to_language.pdf
Introduction to statistics for linguistics:
https://appliedstatisticsforlinguists.org/bwinter_stats_proofs.pdf
Experiment design:
