Dr M.E. Broersma (Mirjam)

Mirjam Broersma investigates how people acquire and use multiple languages. Her research has addressed second language acquisition as well as early bilingualism, in children as well as adults, mostly using a psycholinguistic experimental approach. She currently leads a large investigation of the effects of psychological trauma on the acquisition of Dutch as a second language by Ukrainian refugees (funded by a Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council NWO).

Some of Mirjam's favorite research themes:
• Second language acquisition in refugees
• Birth language memories in international adoptees
• Sound perception and production, word recognition, segmentation of continuous speech, and vocal emotion recognition in non-native listening
• Codeswitching

Some of the research tools she has co-developed:
• LexTALE: Lexical tests for advanced learners of English, Dutch, and German
• Ventriloquist paradigm

• Cognitive and developmental aspects of multilingualism