Teaching 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. René Kager

    René Kager is Professor of Phonology & Language Acquisition and Chair of English Linguistics at Utrecht University. His research focuses on early acquisition of speech prosody.

  • Dr Marijana Marelj

    Marijana Marelj is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and tutor of the Research Master. She takes part in 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.