Research

Current projects:

My current project is called "Variability's influence on language acquisition" (VIOLA). Here, I want to find out which role the presence of multiple speakers (=variability) plays in early language acquisition.

A project that started during my PhD and continues to this day deals with meta-analyses of language acquisition research. In this context, I conducted a meta-analysis on early wordform segmentation and joined an effort to make meta-analyses on one hand crowd-sourced, up-to-date and on the other hand easy to use and accessible. To this end, together with Sho Tsuji and Alex Cristia, we created Community-Augmented Meta-Analyses (CAMAs) and continue to work on this project to make all our lives easier and our science more reliable.

Exciting new projects lie ahead. Please watch this space and my Open Science Framework page to find out more!

Past projects:

My PhD project employed computational modelling to investigate how infants can learn words without having mastered the sound structure of their native language.

How children between the ages of three and six learn the meaning of object pronouns (him, her) and reflexives (herself, himself) was the topic of my Master Thesis.

All output is documented under the Publications tab.

If questions arise, please contact me! Or check, where I will be next.