14 november heeft Kletskoppen twee prijzen gewonnen op de Levende Talen congres voor het project ‘Kletskoppen op Maat!’ 🏆 1e prijs van de jury van het Europees Talenlabel van Nuffic, en 🏆 de publieksprijs van Levende Talen 🎉 Lees hier meer over de prijs en onze reactie daarop. Met dank aan alle Kletskoppers die hieraan […]
Dit najaar trekken we het land in met inspirerende activiteiten over taalwetenschap. Van gastlessen op basisscholen tot onze festivals – overal draait het om taalplezier, verwondering en ontdekken. Kom langs! • 12 november – Rozet Kronenburg, Arnhem • 26 november – Transvaal, Den Haag • 10 december – Kanaleneiland, Utrecht http://www.kletskoppenfestival.nl
Having parents complete questionnaires about their multilingual children’s language experience can be time-consuming. Asking more questions, we often think, will lead to better information, but does it? That’s exactly what we wanted to find out in this paper. 🔎What did we do? ▪️We collected language proficiency data from a diverse group of bi- and trilingual […]
The Q-BEx (Quantifying Bilingual Exposure) is now on LinkedIN. Follow us there to hear more about the questionnaire we’ve developed to quantify bilingual children’s language experience. Did you know it’s currently available in almost 30 languages?! Here they are: Find out more on our website: https://www.q-bex.org/
Just before the summer holidays, and during the ISB conference in San Sebastian, I was asked to join an online call during the annual Donders Day. Not entirely sure why exactly, I found myself a quiet spot in the conference venue and logged on to hear that I had been awarded the Donders Cube. Find […]
In this paper, recently published in the Journal of Child Language, we validate the Richness scores automatically calculated in the Q-BEx questionnaire. Here’s what we found: ❓ Do alternative richness scores fare better than the original Q-BEx score?💬 They do not. ❓ Does a richness score including “quality-based” variables (i.e., interlocutor proficiency and diversity) as […]
New paper alert! My former PhD student / post-doc, Chantal van Dijk, and I have just uploaded a new preprint. Here’s the abstract: Bilinguals are often considered to develop shared syntactic representations between their languages. Evidence for shared syntax typically comes from between-language priming studies showing that exposure to a structure in a bilingual’s one […]
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 […]
We’ve had our first Phd thesis completed from the 2in1 project. Read all about it here.
Although cross-linguistic influence at the level of morphosyntax is one of the most intensively studied topics in child bilingualism, the circumstances under which it occurs remain unclear. In this meta-analysis, we measured the effect size of cross-linguistic influence and systematically assessed its predictors in 750 simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children in 17 unique language […]
Sharon Unsworth 