Marijn van Dijk explained

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)

External links

• Professor van Dijk on the University of Groningen's website: https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.w.g.van.dijk/

Notes and References

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