Heike Behrens#
| Membership Number: | 4845 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
| Homepage(s): | https://germanistik.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/heike-behrens |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - now Full professor of Cognitive Linguistics and Language Acquisition Research. University of Basel (joint affiliation in the German and English department)
- 2002 - 2005 Full Professor for German Linguistics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- 1998 - 2002 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Scientific Associate), Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 1996 - 1998 Wissenschaftliche Assistentin C1 (Scientific Associate) German Seminar, University of Cologne
- 1995 - 1996 Visiting Scholar (DFG Research Fellowship), Institute for Human Development, UC Berkeley
- 1993 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- 1989 - 1982 PhD Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- 1987 - 1989 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (Scientific Associate), Department Psychology, TU Braunschweig
Fields of Scholarship
- Psycholinguistics
- Cognitive linguistics
- Frequency effects in language
- German linguistics
- Sensory semantics
- Language acquisition
- English linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
