Ulrike Rosa Wrobel
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation
Schellingstr. 3
80799 München
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• 1999 M.A. at the Albertus-Magnus University of Cologne in German Philology, General Linguistics and Speech Pathology
  Theme: " Personal Reference in Sign Languages: Deictic or Anaphoric?"
• 2000 Post Graduate program "Speech, mimics and gesture in technical information systems"
  Theme: "Reference in Sign Languages: Person and Space"

General interests:
Sign Language Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics

Current interests:
Reference, Space Relations, ,Agreement Verbs'

Current Questions:

• How is space in Sign Languages integrated in the form of the language sign and what are the differences and similarities in comparison to Spoken Languages?
• In how far does the perception of space determine the grammatical role of space in Sign Languages? How can the intensity and quality of spatial sensations be defined in relation to the perception of the produced language signs?
• Gestures and signs in Sign Languages - same, similar or different?