Academic staff
Dr Rick Nouwen
Rick Nouwen is (associate professor) at the department of Languages, Literature and Communication. Rick's research focus is on formal, experimental and computational semantics & pragmatics, especially where these disciplines meet philosophy of language and/or cognitive psychology.
Prof dr Aoju Chen
Aoju Chen is Professor of English Linguistics: Language Development. Her research is concerned with both fundamental research questions on English linguistics with a focus on prosody, the role of prosody in communication and acquisition of prosody before and after birth in a first language and in adulthood in a second language, and the issue of how the acquisition of linguistic abilities in a first or second language interacts with the learner’s development into a socially functional individual in a familiar or new culture.
Prof Dr Roberta D'Alessandro
Roberta D'Alessandro is professor of Linguistics / Syntax and Language Variation and Head of the Linguistics section at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. She is a member of the Institute for Language Sciences (ILS), where she coordinates the research group Language Structure: Variation and Change.
Dr Iris Mulders
Iris Mulders is Assistant Professor in Linguistics. She is particularly interested in language processing, and lectures on experimental design and data analysis.
Prof. Henriette de Swart
Henriette de Swart is Professor of French linguistics and semantics. She is also affiliated to the cognitive artificial intelligence programme. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic semantics, especially in the area of nominals, tense and aspect, negation.