Project

Language processing and language change

Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/789
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
  • Social sciences
    • Cognitive processes
Keywords
language change Ageing language
 
Project description
 

My research covers four main themes in psycholinguistics: monitoring and control processes in language production, bilingualism, the production and acquisition of sentence structure, predictive processes during language comprehension. I use a diversity of research methods, such as behavioral experiments, analyses of speech errors and disfluencies, eye-tracking, EEG, patient studies, and computational modeling. Much of my earlier work viewed language as a static "given", without accounting for the fact that language is continuously in flux - both the language in general, and the language processing system during an individuals lifetime. I will therefore develop strands of research that focus on a) changes in language processing with ageing and b) changes in the language itself as a function of interactions among language users.