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Rosemarie Tracy is a German linguist specializing in language acquisition. She is currently senior professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim.
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Rosemarie Tracy is a German linguist specializing in language acquisition. She is currently senior professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim.
Tracy studied English, French and Portuguese at the universities of Mannheim and Göttingen, as well as Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctorate at the University of Mannheim for a thesis on child first language acquisition based on longitudinal studies. Subsequently, she taught and researched at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen, taking a habilitation for her work on bilingual child language acquisition. She was appointed professor of English linguistics at Mannheim in 1995. She became senior professor in 2019. [1]
In 2022 she was awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievement by the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). [2]
Tracy's research revolves around language acquisition and psycholinguistics, and she has published widely on topics such as code-switching, borrowing, and language change at the individual level. She has led projects funded by the German Research Council on comparing monolingual and bilingual acquisition and on German as a heritage language in the US. She is one of the founders of the MAZEM – Mannheim Center for Empirical Multilingual Research. [1]
She is the author of an influential popular book, How children learn languages (German: Wie Kinder Sprachen lernen), written for parents of multilingual children, teachers, and early-years educators. [1]
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