GRANTS & AWARDS

Career development grants from Dutch Research Council NWO

  • Five year Vici grant for the project Second language acquisition in refugees: Effects of psychological trauma on linguistic and communicative skills, awarded February 2023.
  • Five year Aspasia personal grant, awarded March 2017.
  • Five year Vidi grant for the project We learn from our mistakes – or do we? Towards more efficient use of talking and listening experience in a second language, awarded May 2015.
  • Three year Veni grant for the project Relearning a lost language: Speech perception in Korean by adoptees, awarded July 2006.

Other grants

  • Co-investigator: Enhancing the perception and recognition of spoken words in a second language: A cue-weighting approach; PI: Annie Tremblay. National Science Foundation Research Grant, awarded August 2020.
  • Grant for Groundbreaking Research from Radboud University Centre for Language Studies, awarded June 2018.
  • Grant from Incentive Fund Open Access from the Dutch Research Council NWO, awarded April 2017.
  • Co-applicant: Grant from open access fund University of British Columbia, Canada, awarded October 2016.
  • Co-applicant: Funding for PhD project Monica Wagner from Radboud University internal competition, awarded February 2016.
  • Co-applicant: Additional funding for PhD project Claire Goriot from European Platform (presently EP-Nuffic), awarded 2015.
  • Co-investigator: Understanding the use of prosodic cues in non-native listeners’ speech segmentation; PI: Annie Tremblay. Language Learning Small Research Grant, awarded August 2014.
  • Co-investigator: Effects of native language and linguistic exposure on non-native listeners’ use of prosodic cues in speech segmentation; PI: Annie Tremblay. National Science Foundation Research Grant, awarded August 2014.
  • Co-applicant: Funding for PhD project Claire Goriot from Radboud University internal competition, awarded July 2014.
  • Carter, D., & Broersma, M. How cognates affect codeswitching: A large-scale study of Welsh-English bilinguals. British Academy Small Research Grant, awarded February 2011.
  • Three months Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission, awarded July 2003.
  • Three year Ph.D. stipend from the Max Planck Society, Germany, awarded November 2000.

Awards

  • Max Planck Society Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding scientific achievements, June 2007.
  • One of the hundred most promising women of the year, BLVD (a Dutch popular lifestyle magazine - no longer existent), 2006.
  • Second place Best Student Paper Competition, 147th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York, May 2004.
  • Thesis Award from the Dutch Association of Applied Linguistics Anéla, December 2000.
  • Cum laude (the highest distinction possible) for undergraduate degree in Applied Linguistics from Nijmegen University (presently Radboud University), the Netherlands, August 2000.