📣 New paper alert, with Elly Koutamanis, Gerrit Jan Kootstra and Ton Dijkstra📣 🔎 What’s the paper about? ▶ Whether similarities between languages influenced how well bilingual children children performed on a vocabulary task in Dutch.▶ We investigated similarities at the level of specific words (cognates vs. non-cognates) and in terms of language distance.▶ We […]
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 […]
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 […]
This paper has been in the pipeline for a very long time. It’s been one of those projects that got pushed down the to-do list during the pandemic and it’s taken a while to find the time to get back to it. Anyway, this is the revised version, which is currently under review. You can […]
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 […]
The preprint of the paper reporting on the results from the Delphi consensus survey we conducted on how to quantify bilingual experience using parental questionnaires is now available via OSF. This is part of the Q-BEx project. Highlights from the paper: We report cross-sector consensus on how to document bilingual experience 132 panellists from 29 […]
My former intern and research assistant, Elise van Wonderen, and I have a new paper coming out in the Journal of Child Language. In this paper we use the Dutch and Spanish versions of the Crosslinguistic Lexical Task (Haman, Łuniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) to compare the language development of monolingual Dutch-speaking children, monolingual Spanish-speaking children […]
Together with my former MA student, Danai Tsinivits, we just had a paper accepted for a special issue of the journal Applied Psycholinguistics on Capturing and quantifying individual differences in bilingualism. Our study used parental report data to investigate the language development of bilingual toddlers growing up with Greek and Dutch as their two languages […]
Jasmijn Bosch (University Milano Bicocca) and I have a new paper on cross-linguistic influence, which has just been accepted for publication in Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. In this study, we find both quantitative and qualitative differences between bilingual children and their monolingual peers. More specifically, we find that bilingual English-Dutch children accept ungrammatical V2 sentences […]
One of my PhD students, Ellen van den Broek, has had her second paper accepted for publication in The Language Learning Journal. It’s about stimulating language awareness in the foreign language classroom and involves a qualitative analysis of teachers’ self-reported practices. Congratulations, Ellen! Here’s the complete reference, DOI to follow once the paper’s online: Broek, […]
Sharon Unsworth 