Graduate Fellowships in Linguistics

In the language development group we are interested in L2 development from dynamic systems perspective. We are now focusing particularly at long term and short term variation in development. In order to study this, we intend to set up a number of dense data bases of L2 learners, e.g. South Asian students learning English, or German students learning Dutch in an intensive course. For the development of the databases learners will be tested daily for a week, then once every week for a couple of weeks, then daily for a week and so on. These databases will allow us to study variation using different statistical methods that have been developed for this by Prof. Paul van Geert and his group in Groningen. In the analysis the relation between lexical development and syntactic development will be focused on.