Rianne van Lieburg is Assistant Professor of Dutch Linguistics. Her research is about multilingualism and second language acquisition. Which effect does one language have on the processing of another language? How do adults acquire the sounds and grammar of a second language? Rianne van Lieburg tries to find an answer to these questions by using psycholinguistic methods and paradigms, such as structural priming or a cue-distractor task.

Rianne van Lieburg is involved in several courses in the Bachelor’s program Dutch Language and Literature and the Master’s programs Multilingualism & Language Acquisition and Intercultural Communication. In addition, she coordinates the NVT-internship (Dutch as a Foreign Language). Students can follow an internship during one semester at a Dutch department at a university abroad as part of their Erasmus exchange program.