About me

My name is Annika Schiefner.

I am a sign language linguist at the University of Cologne. Previously, I worked as a Postdoc at SignLab of the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I hold a PhD from the University of Cologne (UzK), Germany. My background is in psycholinguistics and I started focusing on sign languages during my research master’s at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

My research interests include:

• sign languages,
• language learning (particularly of sign languages),
• gestures,
• iconicity,
• language acquisition and learning,
• cross-linguistic and cross-modal comparisons,
• and all things quantitative methods and statistics.