Our research institute, the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University, currently has vacancies for two PhD positions. Part of the application procedure involves finding a potential supervisor to write a declaration of approval. I am already supporting one candidate and am therefore no longer available as a potential supervisor in this year’s round. Good […]
New paper on cross-linguistic influence during online processing in bilingual children
In one of the few papers investigating online processing in bilingual children, Chantal Van Dijk, Ton Dijkstra and I found evidence for syntactic co-activation of overlapping structures in the form of inhibition during listening. More specifically, we found that bilingual German-Dutch children were more likely to slow down when processing structures in Dutch which overlapped […]
Klets-dit, Klets-dat! Blog op taalwijs.nu
Naar aanleiding van het winnen van de LOT populariseringsprijs ben ik door taalwijs.nu gevraagd om een blog te schrijven over het Kletskoppen kindertaalfestival en de Kletsheads podcast. Taalwijs.nu is een initiatief van het Nationaal Platform voor de Talen, een online ontmoetingsplek voor talendocenten in het voortgezet onderwijs, lerarenopleiders en universitaire taalspecialisten. Er is lesmateriaal, een […]
Article on DutchNews.nl about heritage language schools
On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, DutchNews.nl published an article about the importance of education in the heritage language. You can read it here. Want to hear more from Gisi Cannizzaro from the Heritage Language Education Network? She was a guest on the Kletsheads podcast last year. You can listen in English here […]
Kletsheads and Kletskoppen both win national science communication prize
The LOT popularisation prize was awarded last Friday, during the Taalgala at the Dutch Annual Linguistics Day (unfortunately online again due to corona again online). This is a national prize for science communication in linguistics. One year, the prize is for a product that still needs to be carried out and the other year, for […]
Kletsheads én Kletskoppen winnen prijs voor wetenschapscommunicatie
Afgelopen vrijdag werd tijdens de Taalgala van de Grote Taaldag (helaas door corona weer online) de LOT populariseringsprijs uitgereikt. Dit is een landelijke prijs voor wetenschapscommunicatie in de taalkunde. Het ene jaar gaat het om een product dat nog uitgevoerd moet worden en het andere jaar om en al vervaardigd project van afgelopen jaar. Dit […]
Shortlisted for Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics’ annual science communication award – twice!
Wow! Both the Kletskoppen child language festival and the Kletsheads podcast have been shortlisted for the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT) prize for the best science communication product from 2020-2021. The winner is announced on February 4th at this year’s Dutch Annual Linguistics Day. Wow! Zowel het Kletskoppen kindertaalfestival als de Kletsheads podcast zijn […]
Animations about bilingualism now available in Polish, Arabic and Turkish
In 2019 Gerrit Jan Kootstra and I developed three short animations about being bilingual, called Bilingualism in the picture (oftewel Meertaligheid in Beeld in het Nederlands). Originally intended for primary school children and their teachers, we heard that the clips were also being used for training pediatricians and speech language therapists, in other forms of […]
Kletsheads reviewed by Live Your Language on YouTube
Wow, I’m completely blown away by this review! It’s really great to hear that people are enjoying the podcast and that the mix of research and experience, experts and practitioners, is hitting the mark. A great boost to the spirits whilst working on the next season. Thanks, Live Your Language!
Chantal van Dijk successfully defended her PhD thesis on sentence processing on September 17th
We’ve had our first Phd thesis completed from the 2in1 project. Read all about it here.
Sharon Unsworth 