Dr. Milena Kühnast

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik

I work as a postdoctoral researcher in language acqusition projects at the Humboldt-Universität since 2017.

As a psycholinguist und a language acquisition researcher I explore the development of register flexibility in young adults in relation to their academic and vocational training and to their individual properties and personal traits.

Projects

C05 Young adults’ specialized register knowledge: Modeling late linguistic development in L1 and L2

Contact

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin

+49 (0)30 2093-2302

milena.kuehnast@hu-berlin.de https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2962-1006

Postal address

Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berin

Publications & Presentations

  • Metalinguistic awareness and register acquisition in early and late L1 development
  • Development of languages for specific purposses and register flexibility in young adults
  • Development of the mental lexicon

 

Conferences

International Workshop “Metaphors and Stance Markers in Register Variation” (MeStaR), 16. -17.06.2022, Berlin, Germany (together with Beate Lütke and Markus Egg)