Dr. Sharon UnsworthSharon Unsworth is Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, where she obtained her PhD in 2005, and from 2008 to 2010, she was also a post-doc researcher at the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam. She has published in international journals on bilingual, first and second language acquisition. She was recently awarded the Keetje Hodshon prize 2009 by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities for her PhD and further publications (click here for more details). She is principal investigator on the Early Child Bilingualism project, which is in part funded by a VENI award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of their Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.
Professor Aafke Hulk Aafke Hulk is Professor at the University of Amsterdam and guest researcher at the Meertens Institute, Amsterdam. She is an internationally renowned scholar in the field of bilingual language acquisition, where she is particularly well known for her proposal concerning if and how a bilingual child’s two languages influence each other. She is collaborator and supervisor on the Early Child Bilingualism project. Dr. Leonie CornipsLeonie Cornips is a senior researcher at the Meertens Institute (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in Amsterdam. She has published extensively on bilingual child acquisition, sociolinguistics, syntactic microvariation and methodology. She is the main applicant of the Meertens part of the project, and collaborator and supervisor on the Early Child Bilingualism project. Dr. Erfosyni ArgyriErfosyni Argyri is post-doc researcher at the University of Edinburgh. This is also where she obtained her PhD in 2006, the results of which have been published in the international journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. As part of the Early Child Bilingualism project, she will investigate the linguistic development of Greek in English/Greek child bilinguals. Professor Antonella SoraceAntonella Sorace is Professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. With research interests spanning the fields of linguistics, experimental psychology and cognitive science, she is a leading authority in the field of bilingual language development. She is collaborator and supervisor on the Early Child Bilingualism project. Professor Ianthi TsimpliIanthi Tsimpli is Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published extensively on first and second language acquisition in typical and atypical populations. She is a collaborator on the Early Child Bilingualism project.
The Early Child Bilingualism project is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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