Monique Lamers e-mail: monique.lamers (at) let (dot) vu (dot) nl   Department of Language and Communication VU University Amsterdam De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands  thuisadres / home address Andreasplein 32, 1058 GD Amsterdam  phone: + 31 (0)20-615 2939 mobile phone: +31 (0)6 22 66 3270

Publications & Presentations

Academic positions 

• March 2009- present : Post-doc. Research Project: In search of the referent: anaphor resolution in linear text and hypertext, CAMeRA/LCC, VU University Amsterdam

Former positions

• July 2006- February 2009 : Post-doc. Research Project: Animacy, General Linguistics Department, Radboud University Nijmegen 
• January 2003- June 2006: Post-doc. Research Project: Case Cross-linguistically, General Linguistics Department, Radboud University Nijmegen 
• April 2000- January 2003: Post-doc. Research Project: Interaction of semantics, syntax and working memory during pronoun processing investigated by temporal and spatial neuroimaging (joint proposal in the bilateral cooperation programme of DFG and NWO), Department of Neuropsychology, University of Magdeburg / Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht.
• September 1993- January 2000: Research trainee (PhD), General Linguistics, University of Groningen. Research project: Language processing and event related potentials. PhD: December 2001. 

Research Projects

In search of the referent: anaphor resolution in linear text and hypertext (CAMeRA/LCC/VU)

The processing of anaphora and cataphora in discourse (eye-tracking study)

Prosodic well-formedness: The time course of prosodic information in language comprehension and its neural representation (collaboration with Toni Rietveld, Carlos Gussenhoven, Peter Hagoort and Tessa van Leeuwen)

Former Research Projects                                   

Animacy                                                                                    

The NWO-DFG project Incremental interpretation of case and prominence

Case Cross-linguistically (PI: Helen de Hoop)

The NWO-DFG project Interaction of semantics, syntax and working memory during pronoun processing investigated by temporal and spatial neuroimaging (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany- Universiteit Maastricht, The Netherlands; PI: Thomas Münte, Bernadette Jansma)

Language processing and event related potentials (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands; PI: Laurie Stowe)

• Psycholinguistics
• The time-course and nature of processes involved in language comprehension and production
  • using information from written and spoken corpora in combination with experimental research 
  • using experimental methods such as registration of eye movements, neuroimaging methods such as event-related brain protentials (ERPs) and fMRI, ratings and judgements, reading time and reaction time,  and sentence completion

   

• The use of different sorts of information in language comprehension and production (incl. semantic, syntactic, discourse information, as well as prosodic information)
  • discourse comprehension and production (e.g. discourse coherency, anaphor resolution, semantic/thematic fit, information structure)
  • semantic-syntactic interface and argument structure

   

• Incremental Optimization, Bidirectional OT (e.g. OT Semantics)

 

• Speech and language pathology
• The relation between cognitive functions such as memory and attention in language processing and production
• First and second language learning
• Prosody

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