Conversational alignment

• Role of attention for alignment to filler words ("like")

• Does alignment make speaking easier? (manuscript in preparation)

• For which parts of speech is lexical alignment most common? Analysis of alignment in a corpus of spontaneous speech (with Lotte Eijk and Aurelie Pistono)

• Do we align to disfluencies in speech? (with Ruth Corps and Franzisca Schulz, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

• The influence of foreign accent on structural alignment (manuscript in prepararion)

• Lexical alignment in the two languages of bilinguals (manuscript in preparation)

• How does alignment drive language change? (With Renata Engels, Ghent University)

Bilingual language control

• Effects of language control on the quality and fluency of connected speech

• Bilingual language control on structural representations

• Bilingual referential choice (with Carla Contemori, UTEP Linguistics)

Language and Cognition

• Role of working memory for syntactic formulation in bilinguals