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Education

1992-1996 University of Groningen, Dutch Literature and Linguistics.
Specialization: Psycholinguistics.
1998-2001 University of Groningen, PhD in Dutch linguistics, thesis: 'Case assignment in agrammatism: a cross-linguistic study'; defense March 14, 2002.

Hearing 4 All - Cluster of Excellence

Fortgeschrittener Spracherwerb

SPEECH - MUSIC - LAB

Labor für Sprach- und Musikforschung

Current PhD Students:
Matthias Reiner, working on his PhD "The role of linguistic predictions and cognitive compensation in the interpretation of wh-questions”, double doctorate candidate with Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen.

Roos Weijers, working on a PhD on wh-question interpretation in Dutch and German child language.

Lara Hardebeck working on her PhD "Language acquisition and participation of children with hearing loss”, second supervisor, first supervisor Prof. Dr. Ulla Licandro (FKI).

Former PhD Students:

• Foekje Reitsma, PhD "Improvement of L2 fluency and reduction of foreign language anxiety through online formative assessment" (defense February 2025).
• Andreas Hiemstra, PhD  „Linguistic transfer between closely related languages in third language acquisition” (defense January 2025)
• Mari Chanturidze, PhD „Acquisition of linguistic structures in abnormal auditory perception: the availability of prepositions in hearing impaired children” (defense June 2020).
• Atty Schouwenaars, PhD "Children's use of morphosyntactic cues" (defense 2018).
• Angela Jochmann, PhD "The effects of time-manipulated speech on comprehension of syntactic complexity in agrammatic aphasia" (defense September 2016).
• Hendrikje Ziemann, PhD "Pronoun processing by adult second language learners" (defense August 2016).
• Sara Jonkers, PhD "Modal verbs in Dutch first language acquisition" (defense October 2013).
• Rebecca Carroll, PhD "Understanding Speech in Noise at the Syntax-Prosody Interface" (defense June 2012).

Current Postdocs: 

• Andromachi Tsoukala is working on a project that explores which cues are predictive of turn ends in conversations, and how the use of these cues is affected in adverse perceptual conditions. She is a member of the cluster of excellence Hearing4all.
• Motoki Saito is working on two projects, one that examines effects of unclear pronunciations on second language learning, and the other investigates the impact of acoustically degraded signals on individuals with hearing loss as well as normal hearing.

Former postdocs:

• Rebecca Carroll, worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Psycholinguistics in the cluster of excellence Hearing4all. Now working at Braunschweig University as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer.
• István Fekete worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Psycholinguistics and as a scientific associate for statistical-empirical support at the Faculty of Humanities. His postdoctoral research involved the investigation of wh-questions in German. He now works as a professor of psychology at Amity University Kolkata, India.
• Margreet Vogelzang was working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Dutch Studies of the University of Oldenburg and the in the cluster of excellence Hearing4all, in close cooperation with the labs of Biological Psychology and Applied Neurocognitive Psychology. She is now working at Cambridge University as a postdoctoral researcher.
• Marijke de Belder was a postdoctoral researcher working on derivational morphology and its interfaces. She now works as a lecturer at the university of Utrecht.
• Ankelien Schippers was a postdoctoral researcher, who worked on movement assymetries and intervention. (her own DfG project).
• Bénédicte Grandon was a postdoctoral researcher within the cluster of excellence Hearing for All. She is working on language acquisition and language processing in children with hearing impairment. She now works as assistant professor at the university of Nantes (France)
• Kyoko Sugisaku was a postdoctural researcher with a background in computational linguistics, who worked on a project on narrative development in schoolage children using digital methods.
• Jessie Nixon worked within the excellence cluster Hearing 4All. She now works at the University of Bielefeld as a researcher and lecturer on psycholinguistics.

2025

Hiemstra, A., Michel, M., Ruigendijk, E. (2025) Psychotypologie: Perceptie van typologische afstand tussen het Nederlands en haar Germaanse buren door Duitstalige en Engelstalige leerders en eerstetaalsprekers van het Nederlands, Internationale Neerlandistiek, 63(1), 1-37, doi: https://doi.org/10.5117/IN.2025.1.001.HIEM 

2024

Grandon, B., & Ruigendijk, E. (2024). The role of type and number of phonological features in lexical processing by German-speaking school age children. Proceedings of GALA 15 - Empirical and theoretical approaches to language acquisition: a generative perspective. 

Grandon, B., Schlechtweg, M., & Ruigendijk, E. (2024). Processing of plural marking in nouns by German-speaking children with normal hearing and children with cochlear implants: an eye-tracking study. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 67(3), 853-869. doi: https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00145

Hardebeck, L., Grandon, B., Ruigendijk, E., & Licandro, U. (2024). Erzählfähigkeiten von Kindern mit einer Hörbeeinträchtigung Erzählungen von Kindern mit Hörbeeinträchtigung – interindividuelle Unterschiede und Zusammenhänge mit lautsprachlichen Fähigkeiten. Sprache Stimme Gehör 48, 1-5. 

Hardebeck, L., Ruigendijk, E., Grandon, B., & Licandro, U. (2024). Narrative and related spoken language skills—a comparison between German-speaking children who are hard of hearing and children with typical hearing. Frontiers in Communication, 9, 1473075.

Ibelings, S., Brand, T., & Ruigendijk, E. (2024). Development of a phrase-based speech-recognition test using synthetic speech. Trends in Hearing, 28, 1-13. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165241261490

Reitsma, F., & Ruigendijk, E. (2024). The role of foreign language anxiety and task complexity on fluency in German learners of Dutch. Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 13. doi:https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal13401 

2023

Grandon, B., Schlechtweg, M., & Ruigendijk, E. (2023). Processing of noun plural marking in German-speaking children: an eye-tracking study. Journal of Child Language, 1-28. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000521

Vogelzang, M., Fuhrhop, N., Mundhenk, T., & Ruigendijk, E. (2023). Influence of capitalization and presence of an article in NP recognition in German: Evidence from eye-tracking. Journal of Research in Reading, 46, 294-311. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12425. 

2021

Ruigendijk, E., De Belders, M., & Schippers, A. (2021). Inleiding Nederlandse taalkunde. Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press.

Schierholz, I., Schönermark, C., Ruigendijk, E., Kral, A., Kopp, B., & Büchner, A. (2021). An event-related brain potential study of auditory attention in cochlear implant users. Clinical Neurophysiology, 132(9), 2290-2305. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinph.2021.03.055

Treffers-Daller, J., Ruigendijk, E., Hofweber, J. (Ed.) (2021) Research Topic: Behavioral and neurophysiological approaches to code-switching and language switching. Frontiers in psychology (E-book).

Treffers-Daller, J., Ruigendijk, E., & Hofweber, J. (2021). Editorial Behavioral and Neurophysiological Approaches to Code-Switching and Language Switching. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 565.

Vogelzang, M., Thiel, C. M., Rosemann, S., Rieger, J. W., & Ruigendijk, E. (2021). Effects of age-related hearing loss and hearing aid experience on sentence processing. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-14. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85349-5

Vogelzang, M., Thiel, C., Rosemann, S., Rieger, J., & Ruigendijk, E. (2021). When hearing does not mean understanding: On the neural processing of syntactically complex sentences by listeners with hearing loss. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing, 64, 250-262. doi:https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00262

2020

Goregliad Fjaellingsdal, T., Schwenke, D., Ruigendijk, E., Scherbaum, S., & Bleichner, M. (2020). Studying brain activity during word-by-word interactions using wireless EEG. PLoS ONE, e0230280. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0230280

Ruigendijk, E., & Schuhmacher, P. (2020). Variation in Reference Assignment Processes: Psycholinguistic evidence from Germanic languages. The Journal of comparative Germanic Linguistics, 23, 39-76. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10828-019-09112-x

Vogelzang, M., Thiel, C. M., Rosemann, S., Rieger, J. W., & Ruigendijk, E. (2020). Neural mechanisms underlying the processing of complex sentences: an fMRI study. Neurobiology of Language, 1(2), 226-248. doi:https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00011