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Van Dijk, Chantal, Dr.

Chantal van Dijk
Dr. Chantal van Dijk, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Bienroder Weg 80
Tel.: +49 (0)531/391 8701
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Seit 2022 Postdoctoral researcher in the Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC) project, English Linguistics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, and Romance Linguistics, Universität Stuttgart
2021-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher in the 2in1 project, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen
2021 Lecturer, Language and Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen
2021 PhD in Psycholinguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, supervised by Dr. Sharon Unsworth and Prof. Dr. Ton Dijkstra, Title: “Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing in bilingual children and adults”
2016-2021 PhD candidate and teacher, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen
2014-2015 Research assistant, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University
2013 Research assistant, Linguistics, Utrecht University
2011-2014 Research master student (MA) of Linguistics, Utrecht University
2011 Teaching assistant, Linguistics, Utrecht University
2008-2011 Bachelor student (BA) of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Utrecht University
Research

Research interests

  • Multilingual and second language acquisition
  • Sentence processing
  • Cross-linguistic influence and structural priming

Projects

  • DFG project: Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC; PIs: Prof. Dr. Holger Hopp and Prof. Dr. Achim Stein; 2022 – present)
  • 2in1 project (PI: Dr. Sharon Unsworth; 2017 – 2022)
  • Linguistic Aspects of Texting and its Impact on Cognitive and Social Development (LATXTICS; PI: Prof. Dr. Elma Blom; 2014 – 2015)
Publications
  • van Dijk, C., & Hopp, H. (2025). Structural preferences in language learning across languages: Evidence from verb bias effects in cross-linguistic L1-to-L2 and L2-to-L1 priming. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2476703

  • Knopp, E., Turling., S., Goriot, C., & van Dijk, C. (2025).  “… he speaks two languages at the same time […]. So, why should it be sad?” – Multilingual children’s beliefs about language use and language mixing in and outside the family. Languages, 10(3), 41.  doi.org/10.3390/languages10030041

  • van Wonderen, E., van Dijk, C., & Unsworth, S. (2024).  Meta-CLI: A web app for a community-augmented meta-analysis of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9ezu5

  • van Dijk, C., Bosch, J., & Unsworth, S. (2024).  Language processing in bilingual children: Why it matters, what we know and what is still missing. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24018.van

  • van Dijk, C., & Unsworth, S. (2023). On the relation between cross-linguistic influence, between-language priming and language proficiency: priming of ungrammatical adjective placement in bilingual Spanish-Dutch and French-Dutch children. Open Mind, 7, 732-756. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00105

  • van Dijk, C., Aumeistere, A., Brouwer, S., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence online: An eye-tracking study on pronoun resolution in simultaneous bilingual Turkish-Dutch children. In Y. Gong & F. Kpogo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 153-166). Cascadilla. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-12.pdf

  • van Dijk, C., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence during online sentence processing in bilingual children. Bilingualism: language and cognition, 25(4), 691-704. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000050
  • van Dijk, C., van Wonderen, E., Koutamanis, E., Kootstra, G. J., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis. Journal of Child Language, 49(5), 897-929. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000337
  • de Jong, J., van Dijk, C., & Blom, W.B.T. (2021). LITMUS SRep – een zinsherhaaltaak voor het Nederlands. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 26. https://doi.org/10.21827/32.8310/2021-96
  • van Dijk, C. (2021). Cross-linguistic influence during sentence processing in bilingual children and adults [Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen]. LOT Dissertation Series.
  • Blom, W.B.T., van Dijk, C., Vasić, N., van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G., Avrutin, S. (2017). Textese and use of texting by children with typical language development and Specific Language Impairment. Computers in Human Behaviour, 66, 42-51.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.010
  • Blom, W.B.T., Avrutin, S., van Dijk, C., Vasić, N. & van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G. (2016). Is er een verband tussen het gebruik van texting-taal en taalontwikkeling bij kinderen tussen de 10 en 13 jaar? Levende Talen Tijdschrift, 17 (2), 3-12.
  • van Dijk, C., Vasić, N., van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G., Avrutin, S., & Blom, W.B.T. (2016). The influence of textese on children’s grammar and executive functions. Plos One, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152409
  • van Dijk, C. & Coopmans, P.H.A. (2013). On the acquisition of daar and er. In S. Aalberse & A. Auer (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013 (pp. 73-88). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.30.06van
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