Marijn van Dijk

Marijn van Dijk
Marijn van Dijk's presentation Language interactions in Early Science Lessons in 2017
Born (1972-08-06) 6 August 1972 (age 52)
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisChild Language Cuts Capers: Variability and Ambiguity in Early Child Development (2004)
Doctoral advisorPaul van Geert
Websitevan Dijk on the website of the University of Groningen

Marijn van Dijk (born 6 August 1972)[1] is a Dutch linguist. She is currently an associate professor of developmental psychology at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen, Netherlands.[2]

Career

van Dijk obtained her PhD at the University of Groningen in 2004. The title of her thesis was Child Language Cuts Capers: Variability and Ambiguity in Early Child Development, and it was supervised by her future colleague Paul van Geert.[3]

She is renowned for her work on developmental psychology and second language acquisition and the application of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory to study second language development.[4] She is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply time-series data to study second language development along with van Geert, Lowie, de Bot and Verspoor.

Bibliography

Books

  • A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques (2011)[5]

Articles

  • "Focus on variability: New tools to study intra-individual variability in developmental data." (2002)
  • "Ambiguity in child language: the problem of interobserver reliability in ambiguous observation data." (2003)
  • "Disentangling behavior in early child development: Interpretability of early child language and its effect on utterance length measures." (2005)
  • "Wobbles, humps and sudden jumps: A case study of continuity, discontinuity and variability in early language development." (2007)
  • "Variability in second language development from a dynamic systems perspective." (2008)
  • "Variability in eating behavior throughout the weaning period." (2009)
  • "An identity approach to second language acquisition." (2011)
  • "The dynamics of feeding during the introduction to solid food." (2012)
  • "Dynamic adaptation in child–adult language interaction." (2013)
  • "A process approach to children's understanding of scientific concepts: A longitudinal case study." (2014)

References

  1. ^ a b "Child language cuts capers - Curriculum vitae" (PDF) (in Dutch). University of Groningen. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Marijn van Dijk - Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences". University of Groningen. 8 February 2018.
  3. ^ Marijn van Dijk: Child Language Cuts Capers: Variability and Ambiguity in Early Child Development (Thesis fully internal (DIV)). University of Groningen. 2004.
  4. ^ "Marijn van Dijk". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  5. ^ van Dijk, Marjin (2011). A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques. John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 211. ISBN 9789027219985.