Linguistik, Computerlinguistik und Psycholinguistik an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. Dr. Eva Belke

Contact

Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut
Fakultät für Philologie
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Deutschland

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10.02.2012, 10.30-12.00; 28.02.2012, 14.30-16.00, 20.03.2012, 17.00-18.00
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Research Interests

I am generally interested in language processing in healthy and impaired speakers. My main research interests concern language production processes. Much of my recent work in this area has focussed on lexical-semantic encoding in lexical access in both young and older speakers (see Belke, 2008; Belke, Brysbaert et al., 2005; Belke & Meyer, 2007; Belke, Meyer & Damian, 2005). In a number of recent eye tracking studies, I have (co-)investigated the links between visual and linguistic encoding processes in both visual and linguistic tasks (see Belke, 2006; Belke et al., 2008; Meyer, et al., 2007).

In my most recent research project, I investigate language processing in bilingual speakers born and raised in Germany, who have acquired German as a second language under submersion conditions. The objective of this project is to advance our understanding of language processing in these speakers as well as to apply the results to concepts for teaching German (as a second language) in multilingual classrooms (Belke, 2007; Belke & Belke, 2006). This project is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. My previous research activities were funded by the Honda Research Institute (2007) the German Research Foundation (DFG; 2005-2007) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; 2002-2004).

Publications

In Peer-Reviewed Journals

Belke, E., Humphreys, G.W., Watson, D.G., Meyer, A.S. & Telling, A. (2008). Effects of top-down semantic knowledge in visual search are modulated by cognitive but not perceptual load. Perception and Psychophysics, 70, 1444-1458.

Belke, E. (2008). Effects of working memory load on lexical access. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 357-363.

Belke, E. & Meyer, A.S. (2007). Single and multiple object naming in healthy ageing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 22, 1178-1211.

Belke, E. (2007). Constructing a (Second) Language: Grammatikalisierung in Schriftspracherwerb und Sprachwandel. Osnabrücker Beiträge zur Sprachtheorie, 73, 15-33.

Meyer, A.S., Belke, E., Haecker, C.B. & Mortensen, L. (2007). Use of word length information in utterance planning. Journal of Memory and Language, 57, 210-231.

Meyer, A.S., Belke, E., Southall, A. & Humphreys, G.W. (2007). Early activation of object names in visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 710-716.

Belke, E. (2006). Perceptual determinants of preferred adjective order. Visual Cognition, 14, 261-294.

Belke, E., Brysbaert, M., Meyer, A.S. & Ghyselinck, M. (2005). Age of acquisition effects in picture naming: Evidence for a lexical-semantic competition hypothesis. Cognition, 96, B45-B54.

Belke, E., Meyer, A.S., & Damian, M.F. (2005). Refractory effects in picture naming as assessed in a semantic blocking paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology A, 58A, 667-692.

Belke, E. (2005). Lexical access revisited: Evidence from picture-pseudoword interference. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 17, 117-150.

Belke, E. (2004). Box-und-Arrow Modelle und konnektionistische Modelle gesunden und gestörten Lesens: Ein vergleichender Überblick. Neurolinguistik, 18, 5-38.

Belke, E. & Meyer, A.S. (2002). Tracking the time course of multidimensional object discrimination: Analyses of viewing patterns and viewing times during "same"-"different" decisions. The European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 14, 237-266.

Book Chapters

Belke, E. (2008). Language production and perception. In: S. Gramley & V. Gramley (Eds.) Introduction to Applied Linguistics: A course Book (159-171). Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag.

Meyer, A.S. & Belke, E. (2007). Word form retrieval in language production. In M.G. Gaskell (Ed.): Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 471-487). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Belke, E. & Belke, G. (2006). Das Sprachspiel als Grundlage institutioneller Sprachvermittlung: Ein psycholinguistisch fundiertes Konzept für den Zweitspracherwerb. In C. Peschel & T. Becker (Eds.): Gesteuerter und ungesteuerter Grammatikerwerb (pp. 174-200). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.

Belke, E., Eikmeyer, H.-J. & Schade, U. (2001). Freier Zugang: Anmerkungen aus der Sicht der Sprachproduktion. In L. Sichelschmidt & H. Strohner (Eds.): Sprache, Sinn und Situation (S. 161-174). Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag.

Teaching

Winter Term 2008/2009

Einführung in die klinische Linguistik (Introduction to Clinical Linguistics)

Erworbene Sprachstörungen (Acquired Language Disorders)

Das mentale Lexikon (The Mental Lexicon)

Modelle der Sprachproduktion und -rezeption (Models of Language Production and Perception)