Linguistik, Computerlinguistik und Psycholinguistik an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Prof. Dr. Eva Belke

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

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Freitags, 15.00 - 16.30 (nicht am 20.04., 11.05., 29.06.)

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 a longer-term research project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung (Dilthey-Fellowship), 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; Frieg et al., in press).

In a collaborate research project with Britta Wrede (Bielefeld) and Antje Meyer (Nijmegen), we have recently started to work on developing a software for the exact automatic temporal analysis of spoken utterances based on the automatic speech recognition device Esmeralda. In most language production studies, the dependent variables are the latency with which speakers produce a spoken response to a stimulus, and/or the temporal structure of a spoken utterance (specifically onset- and offset-times of words). To date, exact measurements of these data can only be obtained through the visual inspection of the recordings, which is extremely time-consuming and resourceful. Therefore, we are confident that the software will stimulate research that would not be realized if no automatic analysis tool were available. This research project is funded by the German Research Foundation.

Publications

Belke, E. (under revision). Long-lasting semantic context effects on object naming are necessarily conceptually mediated. Journal of Memory and Language.

Frieg, H., Hilbert, C., & Belke, E. (under revision). Sprachfoerderung bei einem Jungen mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache: Wie erfolgreich sind implizite Verfahren? [Language promotion by means of directed language exposure: How effective are implicit techniques?]. Sprachheilarbeit.

Frieg, H., Hilbert, C., Belke, E., & Belke, G. (in press, final revisions pending). Die generative Textproduktion [Generative text production]. Sprachheilarbeit.

Kresse, L., Kirschner, S., Dipper, S., & Belke, E. (2012). Towards exploring the specific influences of wordform frequency, lemma frequency and OLD20 on visual word recognition and reading aloud. In: J. Heister, E. Pohl, & K.-M. W ürzner (Eds.), Lexical resources in psycholinguistic research: Proceedings of the workshop held at the Forth Conference on Quantitative Investigations in Theoretical Linguistics (qitl4) on the 28th of March 2011. Potsdam Cognitive Science Series (vol. 3). Universitätsverlag Potsdam.

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

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 [Constructing a (Second) Language: Grammaticalisation in literacy acquisition and language change]. 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.

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

Belke, E. & Belke, G. (2006). Das Sprachspiel als Grundlage institutioneller Sprachvermittlung: Ein psycholinguistisch fundiertes Konzept für den Zweitspracherwerb [Language play as a foundation of institutional language teaching: A psycholinguistically founded didactic concept]. In C. Peschel & T. Becker (Eds.): Gesteuerter und ungesteuerter Grammatikerwerb (pp. 174-200). Baltmannsweiler: Schneider Verlag Hohengehren.

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 [Box-and-arrow models and connectionist models of reading aloud in normal and impaired speakers]. 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.

Belke, E., Eikmeyer, H.-J. & Schade, U. (2001). Freier Zugang: Anmerkungen aus der Sicht der Sprachproduktion [Free access: Comments form the viewpoint of language production]. 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)