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Heyer, Vera, Dr.

Dr. Vera Heyer
Dr. Vera Heyer
Bienroder Weg 80, Room 228
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391 8704
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v.heyer(at)tu-braunschweig.de

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CV
2016 - Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Englische Sprachwissenschaft, TU Braunschweig
05/2017 - 12/2020 Editorial Assistant Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
2015 PhD in Psycholinguistics (Promotion in Psycholinguistik), Universität Potsdam, supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Clahsen, Title: “Native and Non-Native Processing of Derived Forms: Masked Priming Evidence from English and German “
2011 - 2015 PhD student and Research Fellow at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
2010 - 2011 PhD student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Essex (GB)
2009 - 2010 Postgraduate student (MA) of psycho- and neurolinguistics, University of Essex (GB)
2006 - 2009 Undergraduate student of English language and literature (combined with business and cultural studies; Bachelor in Kultur & Wirtschaft: Anglistik)
Research and Teaching

Research

  • Native and Non-Native Language Processing (Sprachverarbeitung in Mutter- und Fremdsprachen)
  • Second Language Acquisition and Multilingualism (Zweitspracherwerb und Mehrsprachigkeit)
  • Morphology (Morphologie)

Projects

  • Meta-analysis of inflectional and derivational priming in L2 learners (with João Veríssimo and Clare Patterson)
  • Implications of English spelling on morphological processing (with Kristian Berg and Mark Aronoff)

Teaching

  • Analyzing Linguistic Data with R (workshop)
  • Einführung in die linguistischen Grundlagen des Zweit- und Fremdspracherwerbs (DaF/DaZ-Zertifikat)
  • First Language Acquisition
  • Introduction to Linguistics I
  • Introduction to Linguistics II
  • Morphology
  • Morphology and the Mental Lexicon
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • The Bilingual Mental Lexicon (short course)
Publications

Heyer, V. (2021). Below the surface: The application of implicit morpho-graphic regularities to novel word spelling. Morphology, 31(3), 243-260. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11525-020-09370-6

Heyer, V., & Kornishova, D. (2018). Semantic transparency affects morphological priming…eventually. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 1112-1124. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1310915

Jacob, G., Heyer, V., & Veríssimo, J. (2018). Aiming at the same target: A masked priming study directly comparing derivation and inflection in the second language. International Journal of Bilingualism, 22(6), 619–637. DOI: 10.1177/1367006916688333

Veríssimo, J., Heyer, V., Jacob, G., & Clahsen, H. (2018). Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming: Evidence for a sensitive period. Language Acquisition, 25, 315-326. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2017.1346104

Aronoff, M., Berg, K. & Heyer, V. (2016). Some implications of English spelling for morphological processing. The Mental Lexicon, 11, 164-185. DOI: 10.1075/ml.11.2.01aro

Heyer, V. & Clahsen, H. (2015). Late bilinguals see a scan in scanner AND in scandal: dissecting formal overlap from morphological priming in the processing of derived nouns. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 18(3), 543-550. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000662

Clahsen, H., Gerth, S., Heyer, V. & Schott, E. (2015). Morphology constrains native and non-native word formation in different ways: Evidence from plurals inside compounds. The Mental Lexicon, 10, 53-87. DOI: 10.1075/ml.10.1.03cla

Clackson, K. & Heyer, V. (2014). Reflexive anaphor resolution in spoken language comprehension: Structural constraints and beyond. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 904. DOI: 10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2014.00904

Jaensch, C., Heyer, V., Gordon, P. & Clahsen, H. (2014). What Plurals and Compounds Reveal about Constraints in Word Formation. Language Acquisition, 21, 319-338. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2014.892949

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