Email:
vrazitulis at uni minus potsdam dot de

Dept. of Linguistics
University of Potsdam
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24–25
14476 Potsdam, Germany

Research

• Michael Vrazitulis. The acoustic variation of mid-to-close central vowel phonemes in Pindian and Farsherot varieties of Aromanian. Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 59(1), 2023. ➞ [paper] [journal website] [data & code]

• Meng Li, Michael Vrazitulis, David Schlangen. Representations of fact, fiction and forecast in Large Language Models: Epistemics and attitudes. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 27734–27757). Association for Computational Linguistics. ➞ [paper]

• Michael Vrazitulis. A benchmark dataset for evaluating sentence processing models in German. Sentence processing workshop, Golm, Germany, 2025. ➞ [slides] [workshop website]

• Michael Vrazitulis. The role of task framing and context source in scalar implicature detection. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2025 & 11th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag 2025), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2025. ➞ [poster] [abstract]
• Michael Vrazitulis, Pia Schoknecht, Shravan Vasishth. A progress report on ongoing benchmark data collection for German sentence processing: Eye-tracking and self-paced reading. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Prague, Czech Republic, 2025. ➞ [poster] [abstract]
• Michael Vrazitulis, Pia Schoknecht, Shravan Vasishth. A German eye-movement benchmark dataset. The 3rd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension, Stuttgart, Germany, 2025. ➞ [poster] [abstract]
• Michael Vrazitulis, Shravan Vasishth. A self-paced reading benchmark dataset of German sentence processing. Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2024. ➞ [poster] [abstract]
• Michael Vrazitulis, Jia Ern Loy, Vera Demberg. Do scalar polarity and individual differences matter in scalar implicature processing?. 10th biennial meeting of Experimental Pragmatics (XPrag X), Paris, France, 2023. ➞ [poster] [abstract]
• Michael Vrazitulis, Jia Ern Loy, Vera Demberg. Potential effects of individual differences in fluid intelligence and print exposure on processing times of scalar implicatures. Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG), Saarbrücken, Germany, 2023. ➞ [poster] [abstract]

CV

• PhD student and teaching fellow, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2023–ongoing
• M.Sc. Language Science and Technology: Saarland University, Germany, 2020–2023
• Exchange year at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy, 2021/2022
• B.Sc. Computational Linguistics: Saarland University, Germany, 2017–2020

Teaching

• Foundations of Mathematics (for M.Sc.)
• Menschliches Satzverstehen II (for B.Sc.)

• Statistical Data Analysis 2 (for M.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]
• Einführung in die Statistik (for B.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]

• Foundations of Mathematics (for M.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]
• Menschliches Satzverstehen II (for B.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]

• Einführung in die Statistik (for B.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]
• Menschliches Satzverstehen I (for B.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]

• Foundations of Mathematics (for M.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]
• Wissenschaftliches Schreiben und Arbeiten (for B.Sc.) ➞ [teaching evaluation report]

Esperanto

I speak Esperanto, and I am currently a board member of the German Esperanto Youth, an association dedicated to promoting the constructed auxiliary language Esperanto and, more broadly, fostering intercultural respect and linguistic diversity.

You can learn Esperanto on Duolingo or other platforms like Lernu.net. Fun fact: Esperanto has native speakers.

In the past, I have given online talks in Esperanto on a range of popular-scientific or social topics. Some have been recorded and can be accessed on YouTube:

• Kiel nia cerbo komprenas lingvaĵon? [How does our brain comprehend language?]. TEJO Scienco. May 22, 2022. ➞ [video recording]

• Ĉu /ə/ kaj /ɨ/ estas kunfanditaj en la arumana? [Are /ə/ and /ɨ/ merged in Aromanian?]. Internacia Reta Interfaka Simpozio (IRIS). April 5, 2021. ➞ [video recording]

• Esperanto: Ĉu minoritata lingvo? [Esperanto: A minority language?]. Retoso. April 3, 2021. ➞ [video recording]

• Pogromoj kontraŭ judoj, la estiĝo de Esperanto kaj la sorto de la familio Zamenhof [Pogroms against Jews, the emergence of Esperanto, and the fate of the Zamenhof family]. UNITED for Intercultural Action’s November 9 campaign. November 9, 2020. ➞ [video recording]