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Prof.Dr.P.Fikkert

My research
My research focuses on the acquisition of phonological representations and the role they play in early speech perception and production. A substantial part of this research is carried out in the Baby Research Center in Nijmegen and is part of the research unit ‘grammar and cognition’ of the Center for Language and Speech. Learning words involves learning phonological representations, i.e. the sound structure of words in the mind.

Phonological representations mediate between the acoustic signal and meaning in speech perception and between meaning and the articulatory output in speech production.
Thus, phonological representations in the brain lay the foundation for successful communication.
Yet, the nature of phonological representations that are built up during language acquisition is far from clear.
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KNAW Colloquium
Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory: towards an explanation for the gap between language comprehension and production
2 July 2009 - 4 July 2009
Location: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam
Organized by Helen de Hoop and Paula Fikkert

Nieke Roos will defend his PhD thesis ‘Laryngeal features in the historical phonology and morphology of Dutch’ on June 23, 2009.

Maja Ciumak started her project on the acquisition of Polish coronal fricatives in April 2009.

Erasmus Exchange ProgrammePaula took part in the Erasmus exchange program, taught at the Linguistics Department of Stockholm and visited the Stockholm babylab in March 2009.

From January 2009 Paula is project leader of VAMOS, a research project on language acquisition at the University of Tromsø . The research group was interviewed for the Norwegian News.

Nicole Altvater-Mackensen received the Frye Stipendium in December 2008.

13 december 2008:
Taalexperiment "Het achtste taalwonder" Ieder spreekt zijn eigen taal. Het is eigenlijk een godswonder dat we elkaar denken te snappen. We zijn allemaal talenwonders.
Begrijpen we zelf immers wel waarom we elkaar verstaan? De Radboud Universiteit en LUX presenteren acht taalwonderen: één groot taalexperiment dat toont hoe onze alledaagse taal werkt.
Aanvang: 20.00 uur, entree: 5 euro
voor meer info klik hier en hier

Dr. P. Fikkert benoemd tot
hoogleraar aan de Faculteit der
Letteren Paula in togamet de leeropdracht
Eerste taalverwerving en Fonologie heeft in een academische zitting op vrijdag 18 april 2008 haar ambt aanvaard, met het uitspreken van een rede getiteld:
Kijk op klank (Klik hier voor haar rede)
klik hier voor meer informatie en klik op Paula voor het artikel: Vrouw in Toga.

In the fall of 2007 Christophe dos Santos started as a postdoc on a grant from the Fyssen Christophe dos SantosFoundation: 'The Nature of Sub-phonemic Representation: Internal and External Influences' 

 

January 2009:
OCP 6, Edinburgh
RASCAL, Groningen

February 2009:
DGfS, Osnabrück

July 2009:
ISB7 – Utrecht

September 2009:
GALA, Lisbon

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