Heike Behrens

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Heike Behrens (born January 18 1962 in Itzehoe, Germany) [1] is a German linguist who is professor of cognitive linguistics and language acquisition at the University of Basel. [2]

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Education, career and honours

Heike Behrens studied German and English at Kiel University, and received her doctorate in general linguistics at the University of Amsterdam in 1993. [1] She worked at the Technical University of Braunschweig (1987-1989), at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (1989-1992), at UC Berkeley (1995-6), at the University of Cologne (1996-8), and at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (1998-2002). [2] She was then appointed professor of German linguistics at the University of Groningen in 2002, before taking up her current position as professor of cognitive linguistics and language acquisition at the University of Basel in 2005. [2]

From 2009 to 2015 Behrens was a member of the Swiss Science Council. [3] In 2018 she was elected as a member of the Academia Europaea. [2] Since 2022 she has been a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities. [4]

Research

Behrens' research focuses on first and second language acquisition, linguistic theory, typology and language processing. [2] Her dissertation dealt with the use of verbs by child acquirers of German. [5]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 "Prof. Dr. Heike Behrens". Swiss Science Council (in Italian). Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Heike Behrens". Academia Europaea. Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  3. "Ehemalige Ratsmitglieder". Swiss Science Council (in German). Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  4. "Heike Behrens". Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (in German). Retrieved 20 January 2024.
  5. Behrens, Heike. 1993. Temporal reference in German child language: Form and function of early verb use. Amsterdam/Zutphen: Koninglijke Wöhrmann.