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Prof. Dr. Eva Belke

Psycholinguistics

  • Lexical-semantic encoding in young and older healthy and impaired speakers
  • Psycholinguistic perspectives on language learning and teaching
  • Cognitive resources of language processing
  • Experimental reading research and acquired dyslexia
  • Aphasiology and clinical linguistics
  • Co-ordination of visual and linguistic encoding processes

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Prof. Dr. Eva Belke
Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut
Fakultät für Philologie
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum

belke@linguistics.rub.de
+49 234 32-25116
+49 234 32-28460 (Sekretariat, 8h-15h)
+49 234 32-14137

Office: GB 1/162

Contact Hours

Contact hours by individual appointment. Please contact me via email to make an appointment.

Current Research Interests

  • Lexical-semantic encoding in young and older healthy and impaired speakers
  • Psycholinguistic perspectives on language learning and teaching
  • Cognitive resources of language processing
  • Experimental reading research and acquired dyslexia
  • Aphasiology and clinical linguistics
  • Co-ordination of visual and linguistic encoding processes

Recent Research Projects with Third-Party Funding

  • Literacy as the key to social participation: Psycholinguistic perspectives on orthography instruction and literacy acquisition
  • The automatic temporal alignment of speech in German, British English, and Dutch for psycholinguistic purposes
  • Language processing in speakers who acquire a second language under submersion conditions

Recent Publications

  • Bose, A., Patra, A., Antoniou, G. E., Stickland, R. C., & Belke, E. (in press). Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: A combination of lexical and executive control deficits. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders.
  • Kuba, S., Braun, P. M., & Belke, E. (in press, final revisions pending). Help or hindrance? Effects of additional morphosyntactic cues on the acquisition of gender-like subclasses by 4- to 6-year olds. Bulletin Suisse de Linguistique Appliqués.
  • Laarmann-Quante, R., Ortmann, K., Ehlert, A., Masloch, S., Scholz, D., Belke, E., & Dipper, S. (2019). The Litkey Corpus: A richly annotated longitudinal corpus of German texts written by primary school children. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1889–1918.[shared senior authorship]
  • Schillingmann, L., Ernst, J., Keite, V., Wrede, B., Meyer, A.S., & Belke, E. (2018). AlignTool: The automatic temporal alignment of spoken utterances in German, Dutch and British English for psycholinguistic purposes. Behavior Research Methods, 50, 466-489.
  • Bebout, J., & Belke, E. (2017). Language play facilitates language learning: Optimizing the input for rapid gender-like category induction. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2, 11.
  • Belke, E., Shao, Z., & Meyer, A. S. (2017). Strategic origins of early semantic facilitation in the blocked-cyclic naming paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, memory, and Cognition, 43, 1659-1668.
  • Hoedemaker, R., Ernst, J., Meyer, A.S., & Belke, E. (2017). Language production in a shared task: Cumulative semantic interference from self- and other-produced context words. Acta Psychologica, 217, 55-63.

for all publications, see Publications

Selected Taught Courses

  • Einführung in die klinische Linguistik [Introduction to clinical linguistics]
  • Einführung in die Psycholinguistik [Introduction to psycholinguistics]
  • Statistische Verfahren für Psycholinguist/inn/en und Klinische Linguist/inn/en [Statistical methods for psycholinguists and clinical linguists]
  • Linguistische Methoden [Linguistic methods]
  • Lexikalische Repräsentationen und Prozesse bei mehrsprachigen Sprechern [Lexical representations and processes in multilingual speakers]
  • Spracherwerb [Language acquisition]
  • Sprachverarbeitung im Dialog [Language processing in dialogue contexts]
  • Visuelle Kognition und Sprachverarbeitung [Visual cognition and language processing]
  • Semantisch-lexikalische Repräsentationen und Prozesse bei der Wortverarbeitung [Lexical-semantic representations and processes in word production and recognition]
  • Visuelle Worterkennung und lautes Lesen [Visual word recognition and reading aloud]
  • Störungen der Sprachproduktion [Disorders of language production]
  • Praxis der Experimentellen Psycholinguistik [Practical experimental psycholingusitics]
  • Das mentale Lexikon [The mental lexicon]
  • Erwerb und Verarbeitung von Genusinformationen [Acquiring and processing grammatical gender]
  • Kognitive Ressourcen der Sprachverarbeitung [Cognitive resources of language processing]