Linguistics
- Marleen Bruens: Verbalizing emotions. How Dutch children with ASD use language to express emotions (MA Neurolinguistics, University of Groningen, 2024)
- Antonia Nikolaidou: Speech prosody and social communication skills in autistic children and adolescents (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2024)
- Michiel Strijbosch: Ambiguity resolution in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A literature study (MA Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2023)
- Mirte van Dijken: De rol van theory of mind in de verwerking van scalaire implicaturen bij kinderen met een taalontwikkelingsstoornis: een vergelijking tussen eentalige en tweetalige kinderen (MA Neurolinguistics, University of Groningen, 2023)
- Romy van der Molen: De interpretatie van genderneutrale pronomina (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2023)
- Mieke Lageschaar: Van schaap tot wolf: Onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van ironiebegrip bij kinderen (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2021)
- Anne-Marie van Boeckel: On the relationship between multiplicity inferences, scalar implicatures and theory of mind in adults with autism spectrum disorder (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2021)
- Thomas de Roo: Semantic systems across related languages: The temperature domain in Germanic (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2020)
- Ariska Bonnema: Production and interpretation of answers to negative polar questions in Dutch (MA Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2020)
- Iris Lok: En toen, en toen, en toen. Het gebruik van temporele uitdrukkingen in narratieven van kinderen met ASS of ADHD (MA Neurolinguistics, University of Groningen, 2020)
- Annemarie Venema: De invloed van een actie van een spreker op de interpretatie van perspectiefafhankelijke voorzetsels door een luisteraar (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2019)
- Regina Hert: Pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children: on the role of language dominance and language influence (MA Sprachdynamik: Erwerb, Variation, Wandel, Carl von Ossietzky
Universität Oldenburg, Germany, 2018; first supervisor Esther Ruigendijk).
Tandem thesis in collaboration with Esther Ruigendijk at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. - Anike van Oosterom: Begrip en productie van reflexieven en pronomina door tweetalige Duits/Nederlandse kinderen, een relatie met Theory of Mind? (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2018).
Tandem thesis in collaboration with Esther Ruigendijk at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. - Marieke Huls: Gegeven-nieuw klemtoon in narratieven: een vergelijking tussen kinderen met autismespectrumstoornissen, kinderen met ADHD en typisch ontwikkelende kinderen. (MA Neurolinguistics, University of Groningen, 2018)
- Esther de Raad: Emotion communication: I actually do know how you feel. A model of empathic accuracy. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2017)
- Vera Hukker: Listeners' interpretations of projective locative prepositions in perspective-dependent situations. A comparison between children and adults. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2017)
- Iris Scholten: Ambiguity resolution in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The role of linguistic context and executive functions. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2017)
- Amélie la Roi: Gray matters: Age-related differences in context-dependent idiom processing. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2016)
- Liset Rouweler: Reality versus thoughts: the understanding of Theory of Mind and mental language in TD adolescents and adolescents with SLI or ASD. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2016)
- Suzanne Hazenberg: Complex language, complex thought? Spontaneous and elicited production of complex syntax by children with different levels of false-belief reasoning. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2015)
- Tjitske Postma: "Het is doorgesneden koek": Empirisch onderzoek naar kennis en begrip van idiomen bij adolescenten. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2014)
- Fleur Grashof: De invloed van animacy op woordvolgorde: Een productie-experiment. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2013)
- Atty Schouwenaars: Word order overrules number agreement: Dutch children's interpretation and production of which-questions. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2012)
- Saskia van den Akker: Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type? (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2012)
- Frederike Groothoff: Do adults really understand contrastive stress in an 'adult-like' way? (Research Master Language and Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen & Tilburg University, 2011)
- Edgar Weiffenbach: Interpreting contrastive stress: An eye-tracking study on the interpretation of contrastive stress in only-sentences. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Tineke Prins: Narrative abilities of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in a structured and an unstructured narrative setting. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Jessica Overweg: Mastering second-order false belief understanding: Differences in offline responses and online eyetracking data between children with autism and typically developing children. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Nienke Spanjer: De productie van eh... pronomina en noun phrases. Een onderzoek naar de rol van niet-vloeiendheden en spreektempo in het gebruik van verwijzende uitdrukkingen. (MA Speech and Language Pathology, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Ellis Wierenga: De productie van gegeven-nieuw klemtoon bij kinderen met Autisme Spectrum Stoornissen en ADHD in vergelijking met normaal ontwikkelende kinderen en volwassenen. (MA Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Ruth Koops van 't Jagt: Een lege plek om te blijven. Een eyetrackingonderzoek naar de online verwerking van regelverdeling en enjambement in poëzie. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2011)
- Sandrien van Ommen: Lenition and the asymmetry in mutual intelligibility of Danish and Swedish. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2010)
- Alma Veenstra: Subject anaphora in the L2 Dutch of native Italian speakers. (MA Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2010)
- Marie-Anne Zuidhof: Do elderly people optimize bidirectionally when producing and interpreting referential expressions? (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2010)
- Ruggero Montalto: Scalar ordering of Italian quantifiers. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2009)
- Ingeborg Heutinck: Sommige implicaturen en enkele logische reacties. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2008)
- Arina Banga: On-line measures in adults' comprehension of anaphors in coherent and incoherent discourse. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2008)
- Ellis Wubs: Hoe kinderen referentiële uitdrukkingen in verhalen met een topic shift produceren en interpreteren. Rekening houden met het perspectief van de ander. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2008)
- Irene Siekman: Climb, een OT-analyse. (MA Dutch Language and Culture, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Leontine Kremers: 'Alle mannen dragen een tafel': The relation between collectivity, distributivity and referentiality. (Research Master Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Margreet Luinge: Leren en geheugen. (MA Linguistics, University of Groningen, 2000)
Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence
- Liese Schmidt: Development of Irony Understanding in Typically Developing Children (MSc Human-Machine Communication, University of Groningen, 2019)
- Jacolien van Rij: The effects of speech rate on pronoun interpretation: Evidence of bidirectional optimization in language?
(MSc Human-Machine Communication, University of Groningen, 2008)
- Liesbeth Flobbe: Children's development of reasoning about other people's minds. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Martijn Hennink: Improving automatic identification of coordinated ellipsis in Dutch. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Marleen Schippers: Brain activity during observation of interacting geometrical figures: Is the mirror system involved? (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Bea van Meerveld: Bidirectionality in language acquisition. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Marieke van der Feen: Do rules add up? A study of the application of Optimality Theory to the interpretation of gapping. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2005)
- Feikje Hielkema: Performing Syntactic Aggregation using Discourse Structures. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2005)
- Lisette Mol: Learning to reason about other people's minds. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2005)
- Gineke ten Holt: The eye of the beholder: Automatic recognition of Dutch sign language. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2004)
- Manon Botter: Speaker recognition: Finding text independent information in the acoustical signal. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2004)
- Maria Niessen: Speaker specific features in vowels. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2004)
- Sybrand van der Werf: Grouping in language and music, two faces of the same problem? (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2003)
- Wendy Tromp: Predicting phonemes: The use of language models in a new way of speech recognition. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2003)
- Jan Willem Wennekes: Bounded rationality in communication. (MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, 2002)
- Paul Vogt: A perceptual grounded self-organising lexicon in robotic agents. (MSc Cognitive Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, 1997)
Cognitive Neurosciences, Psychology & Philosophy
- Almudena Medina Samamé: The role of cognitive effort and chronotype in pronoun interpretation in Spanish, L2 speakers of English (minor research project MSc Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Groningen, 2024)
- Lydia van den Vijver: Taal en cognitie. Een onderzoek naar de relatie tussen de ontwikkeling van spatiële preposities en Theory of Mind (MSc Developmental Psychology, University of Groningen, 2013)
- Marleen Schippers: A shared circuits model of language acquisition. (MA Philosophy, University of Groningen, 2006)
- Victorine de Graaf-Peters: MisMatch Negativity en invariantenanalyse: Bootstrapping zonder specificatie?
(MSc Developmental Psychology, University of Groningen, 2002)