Laura Witz joined the department in September 2022. She studied English Linguistics and French at the University of Trier and the University of Kent and obtained her M.A. in August 2021. She is currently working on her PhD thesis, which investigates the processing of English phrasal verbs in German and French native speakers. The thesis is supervised by Prof. Dr. Andrea Sand. Along with Dr. Britta Colligs, she is the Departmental Coordinator of Erasmus/European Exchanges.

* Psycholinguistics: Language Processing; (Second) Language Acquisition

* Sociolinguistics

* Phraseology

* Morphology

* Witz, Laura. (2024, Feb 29). Processing of English Phrasal Verbs in German Native Speakers. Gastvortrag im Seminar “Second Language Acquisition”, Prof. Dr. Stefanie Wulff. University of Florida, USA.

* Witz, Laura. (2023, Sep 26). Processing of English Phrasal Verbs in German Native Speakers. LinPin Konferenz, Universität Duisburg-Essen.

* Witz, Laura. (2023, Jun 28). Processing of Phrasal Verbs in German-English Interlanguage. Trier Center for Language and Communication (TCLC), Trier.