Research interests
Current externally funded research projects:
Ph.D. students:
Akke de Blauw (thesis defended 16-01-2015): Precursors of narrative ability: an in-depth study of three Dutch children (with Anne Baker)
Tiffany Boersma (thesis defended 09-03-2018): The acquisition of morphophonology (with Anne Baker and Fred Weerman)
Hernan Labbe Grunberg (thesis defended April 2020): Automatic unconscious processing of Dutch morphosyntax by L2 speakers (with Fred Weerman and Jan Don)
Merel van Witteloostuijn (thesis defended June 2020): Procedural learning in children with developmental dyslexia (Vidi project, with Paul Boersma and Frank Wijnen)
Imme Lammertink (thesis defended June 2020): Procedural learning in children with specific language impairment (Vidi project, with Paul Boersma and Frank Wijnen)
Nihayra Leona: Improving the acquisition of English at school (ORWELL project, with Patrick Snellings, Jurgen Tijms and Maurits van der Molen)
Sybren Spit: Meta-linguistic awarenss in early (second) language acquisition (with Sible Andringa and Enoch Aboh)
Iris Broedelet: Lexical-semantic deficits in children with developmental language disorders: the role of implicit statistical learning (with Paul Boersma)
Natalia Rivera-Vera: The effect of speaker reliability in adult cross-situational word learning (with Padraic Monaghan, Sible Andringa and Eduardo Kronmuller)
Lani Freeborn: Language aptitude (with Sible Andringa)
Jie Fu: Metaphors in aphasia (with Suzanne Aalberse and Marianna Bolongesi)
I teach in several programs:
BA Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur
MA General Linguistics:
RMA Linguistics
BA Cognition, Language and Communication
RMA Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Projects for students
Students who are interested in doing a project (stage or scriptie) in the area of language development, language disorders or language learning can contact me. Projects involve setting up an experimental design (including ERP), assessing children and/or analysing the experimental data.
Former research projects
I am also a trained speech and language therapist (MA University of Reading, 1999)
I am chair of the ethic committee FGW UvA