RESEARCH

Current project

We learn from our mistakes – or do we? Towards more efficient use of talking and listening experience in a second language. (Vidi career development grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research NWO.)

Research interests

Second language acquisition

• (Improving) sound perception and production in a second language
• (Improving) word recognition in non-native listening
• (Improving) segmentation of continuous speech in non-native listening
• Effects of bilingual education
• Lexical tests for advanced learners: LexTALE

Multilingualism

• First language retention and relearning in international adoptees
• Codeswitching

PhD projects supervision

Ongoing

• Aurora Troncoso Ruiz: How disruptions in communication help enhance the acquisition of L2 sounds in production.
• Monica Wagner: Individual differences in foreign accent.
• Yachan Liang: When speech becomes emotional: A cross-linguistic study of emotion production and perception in tone and non-tone languages.

Completed

• Emily Felker (2021). Learning Second Language Speech Perception in Natural Settings. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
• Chara Tsoukala (2021). Bilingual Sentence Production and Code-Switching: Neural Network Simulations. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
• Claire Goriot (2019). Early-English Education Works No Miracles: Cognitive and Linguistic Development of Mainstream, Early-English, and Bilingual Primary-School Pupils in The Netherlands. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
• Sammie Tarenskeen (2016). What’s the Use of Colour? On the Role of Salience in Overspecification. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
• Laurence Bruggeman (2016). Nativeness, Dominance, and the Flexibility of Listening to Spoken Language. PhD dissertation, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
• Wencui Zhou (2015). Assessing Birth Language Memory in Young Adoptees. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.
• Jiyoun Choi (2014). Rediscovering a Forgotten Language. PhD dissertation, Radboud University.