New paper on between-language priming of ungrammatical structures

Chantal van Dijk and I have a new paper out in Open Mind on the relation between cross-linguistic influence, between-language priming and language proficiency. The paper is available open access here. After hearing a structure in one language, bilinguals are more likely to produce the same structure in their other language. Such between-language priming is […]

New paper on between-language lexical priming

The first paper by my PhD student, Elly Koutamanis, has appeared in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. In this paper, we use between-language lexical priming whilst eye-tracking to show that school-aged bilingual children have an integrated lexicon which is accessed language non-selectively. We show that this holds at the semantic level – e.g., Greek fousta ‘skirt’ […]

Hurray! My first priming paper has finally been accepted

This paper has been a long time in the make. Data collection was completed before the pandemic but with everything that the lockdowns entailed, the distraction of many other projects, and a less than positive editorial experience at one journal, I am more than delighted to say that my first priming paper has now been […]

Het Q-BEx project zoekt een testleider voor feb t/m juni

Heb je al ervaring met het testen van kinderen en spreek je Nederlands als moedertaal of op hoog niveau? Zou je graag meer willen leren over meertalige taalontwikkeling en hier tegelijkertijd voor betaald willen worden? We zoeken gemotiveerde studenten (2e of 3e jaars BA of MA) die ons willen helpen om het validatieonderzoek van het Q-BEx project […]