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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]