MPI series in Psycholinguistics
This page contains PhD theses defended at Radboud University Nijmegen. Upcoming dissertations are listed in chronological order of defense date (please note: thesis numbering might differ).
Upcoming dissertations
206 Figen Karaca (12.05.2025)
On knowing what lies ahead: The interplay of prediction, experience, and proficiency
Dissertations
205 Melis Çetinçelik (2024)
A look into language: The role of visual cues in early language acquisition in the infant brain [pdf]
204 Sophie Slaats (2024)
On the interplay between lexical probability and syntactic structure in language comprehension [pdf]
203 Alessio Quaresima (2024)
A bridge not too far: Neurobiological causal models of word recognition [pdf]
202 Rowan Sommers (2024)
Neurobiology of reference [pdf]
201 Saskia Mooijman (2024)
Control of language in bilingual speakers with and without aphasia [pdf]
200 Ayse Ezgi Mamus (2024)
Perceptual experience shapes how blind and sighted people express concepts in multimodal language [pdf]
199 Chinmaya Mishra (2024)
The face says it all: Investigating gaze and affective behaviors of social robots [pdf]
198 Jeremy Collins (2024)
Linguistic areas and prehistoric migrations [pdf]
197 Katja Stärk (2024)
The company language keeps: How distributional cues influence statistical learning for language [pdf]
196 Midas Anijs (2024)
Networks within networks: Probing the neuronal and molecular underpinnings of language-related disorders using human cell models [pdf]
195 Julia Egger (2023)
Need for speed: The role of speed of processing in early lexical development [pdf]
194 Kang-Suk Byun (2023)
Establishing intersubjectivity in cross-signing [pdf]
193 Jieying He (2023)
Coordination of spoken language production and comprehension: How speech
production is affected by irrelevant background speech [pdf]
192 Laura Giglio (2023)
Speaking in the Brain: How the brain produces and understands language [pdf]
191 Lotte Eijk (2023)
Linguistic alignment: The syntactic, prosodic, and segmental phonetic levels [pdf]
190 Cas Coopmans (2023)
Triangles in the brain: The role of hierarchical structure in language use [pdf]
189 Marlou Rasenberg (2023)
Mutual understanding from a multimodal and interactional perspective [pdf]
188 Federica Bartolozzi (2023)
Repetita Iuvant? Studies on the role of repetition priming as a supportive mechanism during conversation [pdf]
187 Marloes Mak (2022)
What's on your mind: Mental simulation and aesthetic appreciation during literary reading [pdf]
186 Joery den Hoed (2022)
Disentangling the molecular landscape of genetic variation of neurodevelopmental and speech disorders [pdf]
185 Danny Merkx (2022)
Modelling multi-modal language learning: From sentences to words [pdf]
184 Fan Bai (2022)
Neural representation of speech segmentation and syntactic structure discrimination [pdf]
183 Jinbiao Yang (2022)
Discovering the units in language cognition: From empirical evidence to a computational model [pdf]
182 Ksenija Slivac (2022)
The enlanguaged brain: Cognitive and neural mechanisms of linguistic influence on perception [pdf]
181 Katherine Marcoux (2022)
Non-native Lombard speech: The acoustics, perception, and comprehension of English Lombard speech by Dutch natives [pdf]
180 Julia Misersky (2022)
About time: Exploring the role of grammatical aspect in event cognition [pdf]
179 Aurora Troncoso Ruiz (2022)
Non-native phonetic accommodation in interactions with humans and with computers [pdf]
178 Chen Shen (2022)
Individual differences in speech production and maximum speech performance [pdf]
177 Hannah Lutzenberger (2022)
Kata Kolok - Variation and acquisition [pdf]
176 Dilay Karadoller (2022)
Development of Spatial Language and Memory: Effects of Language Modality and Late Sign Language Exposure [pdf]
175 Merel Wolf (2022)
Spoken and written word processing: Effects of presentation modality and individual differences in experience to written language [pdf]
174 Laura Hahn (2022)
Infants’ perception of sound patterns in oral language play [pdf]
173 Sophie Arana (2022)
Abstract neural representations of language during sentence comprehension : Evidence from MEG and Behaviour [pdf]
172 Merel Postema (2021)
Left-right asymmetry of the human brain: Associations with neurodevelopmental disorders and genetic factors [pdf]
171 Jeroen van Paridon (2021)
Speaking while listening: Language processing in speech shadowing and translation [pdf]
170 Louise Schubotz (2021)
Effects of aging and cognitive abilities on multimodal language production and comprehension in context [pdf]
169 Chara Tsoukala (2021)
Bilingual sentence production and code-switching: Neural network simulations [pdf]
168 John Huisman (2021)
Variation in form and meaning across the Japonic language family with a focus on the Ryukyuan languages [pdf]
167 Ellen Verhoef (2021)
Why do we change how we speak? Multivariate genetic analyses of language and related traits across development and disorder [pdf]
166 Francie Manhardt (2021)
A tale of two modalities: How modality shapes language production and visual attention [pdf]
165 Anne Mickan (2021)
What was that Spanish word again? Investigations into the cognitive mechanisms underlying foreign language attrition [pdf]
164 Greta Kaufeld (2021)
Investigating spoken language comprehension as perceptual inference [pdf]
163 Alessandro Lopopolo (2021)
Properties, structures and operations: Studies on language processing in the brain using computational linguistics and naturalistic stimuli [pdf]
162 Theresa Redl (2021)
Masculine generic pronouns: Investigating the processing of an unintended gender cue [pdf]
161 Eirini Zormpa (2020)
Memory for speaking and listening [pdf]
160 Saoradh Favier (2020)
Individual differences in syntactic knowledge and processing: The role of literacy experience [pdf]
159 Marvin Uhlmann (2020)
Neurobiological models of sentence processing [pdf]
158 René Terporten (2020)
The power of context: How linguistic contextual information shapes brain dynamics during sentence processing [pdf]
157 Joe Rodd (2020)
How speaking fast is like running: Modelling control of speaking rate [pdf]
156 Svetlana-Lito Gerakaki (2020)
The moment in between: Planning speech while listening [pdf]
155 Limor Raviv (2020)
Language and society: How social pressures shape grammatical structure [pdf]
154 Zeynep Azar (2020)
The effect of language contact on speech and gesture: The case of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals in the Netherlands [pdf]
153 Ella Lattenkamp (2020)
Vocal learning in the pale spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus discolor [pdf]
152 Sara Iacozza (2020)
Exploring social biases in language processing [pdf]
151 Valeria Mongelli (2020)
The role of neural feedback in language unification: How awareness affects combinatorial processing [pdf]
150 Mathias Barthel (2020)
Speech planning in dialogue - Psycholinguistic studies of the timing of turn taking [pdf]
149 Julija Baranova (2020)
Reasons for every-day activities [pdf]
dissertations 1-148 (1997-2019)
148 Merel Maslowski (2019)
Fast speech can sound slow: Effects of contextual speech rate on word recognition [pdf]
147 Elliot Sollis (2019)
A network of interacting proteins disrupted in language-related disorders [pdf]
146 Annika Nijveld (2019)
The role of exemplars in speech comprehension [pdf]
145 Amie Fairs (2019)
Linguistic dual-tasking: Understanding temporal overlap between production and comprehension [pdf]
144 Linda Drijvers (2019)
On the oscillatory dynamics underlying speech-gesture integration in clear and adverse listening conditions [pdf]
143 Luis Miguel Rojas Berscia (2019)
From Kawapanan to Shawi: Topics in language variation and change [pdf]
142 Jana Bašnáková (2019)
Beyond the language given: The neurobiological infrastructure for pragmatic inferencing [pdf]
141 Clair Hill (2018)
Person reference and interaction in Umpila/Kuuku Ya’u narrative [pdf]
140 Paul Hömke (2019)
The face in face-to-face communication: Signals of understanding and non-understanding [pdf]
139 Nina Mainz (2018)
Vocabulary knowledge and learning: Individual differences in adult native speakers [pdf]
138 Xaver Koch (2018)
Age and hearing loss effects on speech processing [pdf]
137 Rick Janssen (2018)
Let the agents do the talking: On the influence of vocal tract anatomy on speech during ontogeny and glossogeny [pdf]
136 Juliane Kirsch (2018)
Listening for the WHAT and the HOW: Older adults’ processing of semantic and affective information in speech [pdf]
135 Markus Ostarek (2018)
Envisioning language - An exploration of perceptual processes in language comprehension [pdf]
134 Johanne Tromp (2018)
Indirect request comprehension in different contexts [pdf]
133 Sara Busquets Estruch (2018)
Characterization of transcription factors in monogenic disorders of speech and language [pdf]
132 Vishnupriya Kolipakam (2018)
A holistic approach to understanding pre-history [pdf]
131 Antje Stoehr ( 2018)
Speech production, perception, and input of simultaneous bilingual preschoolers: Evidence from voice onset time [pdf]
130 Laura de Vaan (2017)
Mental representations of Dutch regular morphologically complex neologisms [pdf]
129 Thordis Neger (2017)
Learning from the (un)expected: Age and individual differences in statistical learning and perceptual learning in speech [pdf]
128 Sebastian Sauppe (2017)
The role of voice and word order in incremental sentence processing. Studies on sentence production and comprehension in Tagalog and German [pdf]
127 Cornelia Moers (2017)
The neighbors will tell you what to expect: Effects of aging and predictability on language processing [pdf]
126 Sophie Brand (2017)
The processing of reduced word pronunciation variants by natives and foreign language learners: Evidence from French casual speech [pdf]
125 Elliott Hoey (2017)
Lapse organization in interaction [pdf]
124 Evelien Heyselaar (2017)
Influences on the magnitude of syntactic priming [pdf]
123 Ashley Lewis (2017)
Explorations of beta-band neural oscillations during language comprehension: Sentence processing and beyond [pdf]
122 Will Schuerman (2017)
Sensorimotor experience in speech perception pdf
121 Franziska Hartung (2017)
Getting under your skin: The role of perspective and simulation of experience in narrative comprehension [pdf]
120 Gwilym Lockwood (2017)
Talking sense: The behavioural and neural correlates of sound symbolism [pdf]
119 Elizabeth Manrique (2017)
Achieving mutual understanding in Argentine Sign Language [pdf]
118 Lotte Schoot (2017)
Language processing in a conversation context [pdf]
117 Tulio Guadalupe (2017)
The biology of variation in anatomical brain asymmetries [pdf]
116 Nietzsche H.L. Lam (2017)
Comprehending comprehension: Insights from neuronal oscillations on the neuronal basis of language [pdf]
115 Richard Kunert (2017)
Music and language comprehension in the brain [pdf]
114 Amaia Carrión Castillo (2016)
Deciphering common and rare genetic effects on reading ability [pdf]
113 Rebecca Defina (2016)
Events in language and thought: The case of serial verb constructions in Avatime [pdf]
112 Martin Becker (2016)
On the identification of FOXP2 gene enhancers and their role in brain development [pdf]
111 Ewelina Wnuk (2016)
Semantic specificity of perception verbs in Maniq [pdf]
110 Laurence Bruggeman (2016) (defended at Western Sydney University)
Nativeness, dominance, and the flexibility of listening to spoken language [pdf]
109 Malte Viebahn (2016)
Acoustic reduction in spoken-word processing: Distributional, syntactic, morphosyntactic, and orthographic effects [pdf]
108 Suzanne Jongman (2016)
Sustained attention in language production [pdf]
107 Huib Kouwenhoven (2016)
Situational variation in non-native communication: Studies into register variation, discourse management and pronunciation in Spanish English [pdf]
106 Florian Hintz (2015)
Predicting language in different contexts: The nature and limits of mechanisms in anticipatory language processing [pdf
105 Alastair Charles Smith (2015)
Modelling multimodal language processing [pdf
104 Rósa Signý Gisladottir (2015)
Conversation electrified: The electrophysiology of spoken speech act recognition [pdf
103 Alessandro Gialluisi (2015)
Investigating the genetic basis of reading and language skills [pdf]
102 David Peeters (2015)
A social and neurobiological approach to pointing in speech and gesture [pdf]
101 Wencui Zhou (2015)
Assessing birth language memory in young adoptees [pdf]
100 Lilla Magyari (2015)
Timing turns in conversation: A temporal preparation account [pdf]
99 Giovanni Rossi (2015)
The request system in Italian interaction [pdf]
98 Edwin van Leeuwen (2015)
Social learning dynamics in chimpanzees: Reflections on (nonhuman) animal culture [pdf]
97 Maartje van de Velde (2015)
lncrementality and flexibility in sentence production [pdf]
96 Salomi Savvatia Asaridou (2015)
An ear for pitch: On the effects of experience and aptitude in processing pitch in language and music [pdf]
95 Beyza Sumer (2015)
Acquisition of spatial language by signing and speaking children: A comparison of Turkish sign language (TID) and Turkish [pdf]
94 Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (2015)
Machine learning for gesture recognition from videos [pdf]
93 Jeremy Hammond (2015)
Switch reference in Whitesands [pdf]
92 Saskia van Putten (2014)
Information structure in Avatime [pdf]
91 Gudmundur Bjarki Thorgrímsson (2014)
Infants'understanding of communication as participants and observers [pdf]
90 Sho Tsuji (2014)
The road to native listening: Language-general perception, language-specific input [pdf]
89 Jiyoun Choi (2014)
Rediscovering a forgotten language [pdf]
88 Annemarie Verkerk (2014)
The evolutionary dynamics of motion event encoding [pdf]
87 Helen Buckler (2014)
The acquisition of morphophonological alternations across languages [pdf]
86 Alma Veenstra (2014)
Semantic and syntactic constraints on the production of subject-verb agreement [pdf]
85 Jana Reifegerste (2014)
Morphological processing in younger and older people: Evidence for flexible dual-route access [pdf]
84 Giuseppina Turco (2014)
Contrasting opposite polarity in Germanic and Romance languages: Verum Focus and affirmative particles in native speakers and advanced L2 learners [pdf]
83 Katja Poellmann (2013)
The many ways listeners adapt to reductions in casual speech [pdf]
82 Iris Hanique (2013)
Mental representation and processing of reduced words in casual speech [pdf]
81 Joost Rommers (2013)
Seeing what's next: Processing and anticipating language referring to objects [pdf]
80 Sarah Dolscheid (2013)
High pitches and thick voices. The role of language in space-pitch associations [pdf]
79 Patrick van der Zande (2013)
Hearing speech and seeing speech: Perceptual adjustments in auditory-visual processing [pdf]
78 Zeshu Shao (2013)
Contributions of executive control to individual differences in word production [pdf]
77 Kimberley Mulder (2013)
Family and neighbourhood relations in the mental lexicon: A cross-language perspective [pdf]
76 Kaoru Hayano (2013)
Territories of knowledge in Japanese conversation [pdf]
75 Daniel Puccini (2013)
The use of deictic versus representational gestures in infancy [pdf]
74 Marijt Witteman (2013)
Lexical processing of foreign-accented speech: Rapid and flexible adaptation
73 Attila Andics (2013)
Who is talking? Behavioural and neural evidence for norm-based coding in voice identity learning
72 Connie de Vos (2012)
Sign-spatiality in Kata Kolok: how a village sign language of Bali inscribes its signing space
71 Federico Rossano (2012)
Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction [pdf]
70 Birgit Knudsen (2012)
Infants' appreciation of others' mental states in prelinguistic communication : a second person approach to mindreading [pdf]
69 Katrien Rachel Segaert (2012)
Structuring language : contributions to the neurocognition of syntax. [pdf]
68 Matthias Johannes Sjerps (2011)
Adjusting to different speakers : extrinsic normalization in vowel perception [pdf]
67 Caroline Mary Magteld Junge (2011)
The relevance of early word recognition : insights from the infant brain [pdf]
66 Francisco Torreira (2011)
Speech reduction in spontaneous French and Spanish [pdf]
65 Marco van de Ven (2011)
The role of acoustic detail and context in the comprehension of reduced pronunciation variants [pdf]
64 Mark Dingemanse (2011)
The meaning and use of ideophones in Siwu [pdf]
63 Lin Wang (2011)
The influence of information structure on language comprehension : a neurocognitive perspective [pdf]
62 Sonja Gipper (2011)
Evidentiality and intersubjectivity in Yurakaré : an interactional account. [pdf]
61 Stuart Payton Robinson (2011)
Split intransitivity in Rotokas, a Papuan language of Bougainville [pdf]
60 Annelie Tuinman (2011)
Processing casual speech in native and non-native language [pdf]
59 Ian FitzPatrick (2011)
Lexical interactions in non-native speech comprehension : evidence from electro-encephalography, eye-tracking, and functional magnetic resonance imaging [pdf]
58 Miriam Ellert (2010)
Ambiguous pronoun resolution in L1 and L2 German and Dutch [pdf]
57 Susanne Brouwer (2010)
Processing strongly reduced forms in casual speech [pdf]
56 Wieke Tabak (2010)
Semantics and (ir)regular inflection in morphological processing [pdf]
55 Eva Reinisch (2010)
Processing the fine temporal structure of spoken words [pdf]
54 Laura de Ruiter (2010)
Studies on intonation and information structure in child and adult German [pdf]
53 Sarah Schimke (2009)
The acquisition of finiteness by Turkish learners of German and Turkish learners of French : investigating knowledge of forms and functions in production and comprehension [pdf]
52 Claudia Kuzla (2009)
Prosodic structure in speech production and perception[pdf]
51 Claudia Ursula Wegener (2008)
A grammar of Savosavo : a Papuan language of the Solomon Islands [pdf]
50 Victor Kuperman (2008)
Lexical processing of morphologically complex words : an information-theoretical perspective [pdf]
49 Anita Eva Wagner (2008)
Phoneme inventories and patterns of speech sound perception [pdf]
48 Jidong Chen (2008) (defended at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
The acquisition of verb compounding in Mandarin Chinese [pdf]
47 Amanda Brown (2007) (defended at Boston University)
Crosslinguistic influence in first and second languages : convergence in speech and gesture [pdf]
46 Heidrun Bien (2007)
On the production of morphologically complex words with special attention to effects of frequency [pdf]
45 Pamela M. Perniss (2007)
Space and iconicity in German sign language (DGS) [pdf]
44 Valesca Madalla Kooijman (2007)
Continuous-speech segmentation at the beginning of language acquisition : Electrophysiological evidence [pdf]
43 Mark Pluymaekers (2007)
Affix reduction in spoken Dutch : probabilistic effects in production and perception [pdf]
42 Martijn Bastiaan Goudbeek (2007)
The acquisition of auditory categories [pdf]
41 Daniel Haun (2007)
Cognitive cladistics and the relativity of spatial cognition [pdf]
40 Christiane Dietrich (2006)
The acquisition of phonological structure : distinguishing contrastive from non-constrative variation [pdf]
39 Mandana Seyfeddinipur (2006)
Disfluency : interrupting speech and gesture [pdf]
38 Rebecca Özdemir (2006)
The relationship between spoken word production and comprehension [pdf]
37 Keren Batya Shatzman (2006)
Sensitivity to detailed acoustic information in word recognition [pdf]
36 Frank Eisner (2006)
Lexically-guided perceptual learning in speech processing [pdf]
35 Oliver Müller (2005)
Retrieving semantic and syntactic word properties : ERP studies on the time course in language comprehension [pdf]
34 Mirjam Elisabeth Broersma (2005)
Phonetic and lexical processing in a second language [pdf]
33 Anne Pier Salverda (2005)
Prosodically-conditioned detail in the recognition of spoken words [pdf]
32 Frank Seifart (2005)
The structure and use of shape-based noun classes in Miraña (North West Amazon) [pdf]
31 Marijtje Elizabeth Debora Wassenaar (2005)
Agrammatic comprehension : an electrophysiological approach [pdf]
30 Friederike Lüpke (2005)
A grammar of Jalonke argument structure [pdf]
29 Barbara Schmiedtová (2004)
At te same time.... : the expression of simultaneity in learner varieties [pdf]
28 Rachèl Jenny Judith Karin Kemps (2004)
Morphology in auditory lexical processing : sensitivity to fine phonetic detail and insensitivity to suffix reduction [pdf]
27 Marjolein Henriëtte Wilhelmina Meeuwissen (2004)
Producing complex spoken numerals for time and space [pdf]
26 Joana Cholin (2004)
Syllables in speech production : effects of syllable preparation and syllable frequency [pdf]
25 Petra Martine van Alphen (2004)
Perceptual relevance of prevoicing in Dutch [pdf]
24 Danielle van den Brink (2004)
Contextual influences on spoken-word processing : an electrophysiological approach [pdf]
23 Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín (2003)
Paradigmatic structures in morphological processing : computational and cross-linguistic experimental studies [pdf]
22 Birgit Hellwig (2003)
The grammatical coding of postural semantics in Goemai (a West Chadic language of Nigeria [pdf]
21 Simone Annegret Sprenger (2003)
Fixed expressions and the production of idioms [pdf]
20 Nivja Helena de Jong (2002)
Morphological families in the mental lexicon [pdf]
19 Kerstin Mauth (2002)
Morphology in speech comprehension [pdf]
18 Andrea Krott (2001)
Analogy in morphology : the selection of linking elements in dutch compounds [pdf]
17 Femke Frederike van der Meulen (2001)
Moving eyes and naming objects [pdf]
16 Andrea Christine Weber (2001)
Language-specific listening : the case of phonetic sequences [pdf]
15 Irene Krämer (2000) (defended at Utrecht University)
Interpreting indefinites : an experimental study of children's language comprehension [pdf]
14 Eva Schultze-Berndt (2000)
Simple and complex verbs in Jaminjung : a study of event categorisation in an Australian language [pdf]
13 Arie H. van der Lugt (1999)
From speech to words [pdf]
12 Anna Margetts (1999)
Valence and transitivity in Saliba : an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea [pdf]
11 Dirk J. Janssen (1999)
Producing past and plural inflections [pdf]
10 James Essegbey (1999) (defended at Leiden University)
Inherent complement verbs revisited : towards an understanding of argument structure in Ewe [pdf]
9 Joost van de Weijer (1999)
Language input for word discovery [pdf]
8 Ingeborg Lasser (1997) (defended at City University of New York)
Finiteness in adult and child German [pdf]
7 Esther Grabe (1998)
Comparative intonational phonology : English and German [pdf]
6 Jan-Peter de Ruiter (1998)
Gesture and speech production [pdf]
5 Kay Behnke (1998) (defended at Twente University)
The acquisition of phonetic categories in young infants : a self-organising artificial neural network approach [pdf]
4 Alette Petra Haveman (1997)
The open-/closed class distinction in spoken-word recognition [pdf]
3 Bernadette M. Schmitt (1997)
Lexical access in the production of ellipsis and pronouns [pdf]
2 Niels O. Schiller (1997)
The role of the syllable in speech production : evidence from lexical statistics, metalinguistics, masked priming, and electromagnetic midsagittal articulography [pdf]
1 Miranda I. van Turennout (1997)
The electrophysiology of speaking : investigations on the time course of semantic, syntactic, and phonological processing [pdf]