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received his academic training at the universities of Cologne, Manchester and Constance, where he also worked as an assistant professor of General Linguistics. From 1992 to 1998, he was professor of German linguistics at the university of Hamburg. Since 1998, he has held a chair of German linguistics at the University of Freiburg (Germany). He has done extensive research on bilingualism, phonology and dialectology, prosody, interaction and spoken language from a syntactic point of view. He is the author of Bilingual Conversation