M.M.J. den Hartog (Maria) MSc

My PhD project is about the effect of formal and informal pronouns of address (in Dutch: 'u' and 'jij') on the person who is being addressed. I study these effects in Dutch as well as in German and I also look at the similarities and differences between these two languages.

To investigate the effect of pronouns of address, I use a wide range of methods: from questionnaires to cognitive and psycholinguistic measures in the lab such as EEG and eye tracking. I am also interested in how the systems of pronouns of address in Dutch and German came about and for that I look at corpora of historical texts.

• Processing pronouns of address (ImPro)

• Grammar and Cognition