Research projects
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Meta-CLI
Meta-CLI is a collaborative tool for researchers in the field of child bilingualism where they can share and use data on cross-linguistic influence.
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Quantifying Bilingual Experience (Q-BEx)
This project aims to provide an optimised and customisable online tool to develop profiles of bilingual (and trilingual) children.
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How Dutch language develops in 5-7 year old early-bilingual primary school pupils
In this PhD-project school pupil's language development in groups between age 5 to 7 years is analysed, in order to compare the Dutch language proficiency between pupils at partial immersion schools and early foreign language acquisition schools.
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The Language Leak - Subproject 1
In this subproject of 'The Language Leak' new insights will be provided by means of co-registered eye-tracking and EEG.
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Reading beyond borders
This 3-year research project proposes an in-depth and longitudinal investigation of second-language (L2) reading comprehension of primary school children in non-Western educational contexts.
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Input effects on the morphosyntactic development of Dutch as a heritage language in bilingual children
This project investigates the Dutch language development of Dutch-speaking children in France and Germany by exploring the role of the other language (French or German) and amount of exposure on the development of Dutch as a home language.
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How multilingual experience shapes the language system
Research shows that in the case of multilingual speakers not only words, but also the grammars of different languages influence each other. In this research this interaction between grammatical construction is investigated.
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Executive control in bilingual aphasia
In this research project, the role of executive control in bilingual persons with aphasia (PWA) is investigated.
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Cognate processing in idioms
This study aims to investigate the processing of Dutch-English cognates embedded in English idioms by L2 Dutch learners of English in a sentence reading task.
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2in1
How does one child actually acquire and use two different languages? The 2in1 project examined how a bilingual child’s languages affect each other and the circumstances under which this occurs.