Evelyn Bosma
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. E. Bosma
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- e.bosma@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-8550-3720
Evelyn Bosma is Assistant Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
Fields of interest
- Multilingualism
- First language acquisition
- Second language acquisition
- Psycholinguistics
Research
Evelyn Bosma investigates the relationship between bilingualism and cognition among children and adults. Why is it so important to have a solid foundation in the first language? How do people learn a second language? And how could we give multilingualism a place in education?
She wrote articles for Onze Taal and HP/De Tijd, and did interviews with the local radio and several newspapers, including Omrop Fryslân, Leeuwarder Courant, Leidsch Dagblad and Kennislink.
Grants and awards
2021: Keetje Hodshon Prize
2021: runner-up Gratama Science Prize
2020: Klokhuis Science Prize
2018: AVT/Anéla Dissertation Prize
2017: Science Prize RUG/Campus Fryslân
2017: Best Poster Award TABU-dag
Curriculum vitae
Evelyn Bosma studied Linguistics and Latin American Studies at Leiden University. In 2017, she defended her dissertation (Fryske Akademy/UvA) on the language and cognitive development of Frisian-Dutch bilingual children. She then started working as a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University, Utrecht University and the Fryske Akademy. In 2023, she was appointed Assistant Professor at Leiden University.
Selected publications
Bosma, E., Bakker, A., Zenger, L., & Blom, E. (2023). Supporting the development of the bilingual lexicon through translanguaging: a realist review integrating psycholinguistics with educational sciences. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 38(1), 225-247.
Bosma, E., & Pablos, L. (2020). Switching direction modulates the engagement of cognitive control in bilingual reading comprehension: An ERP study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 55, 100894.
Bosma, E., & Nota, N. (2020). Cognate facilitation in Frisian–Dutch bilingual children’s sentence reading: An eye-tracking study. Journal of experimental child psychology, 189, 104699.
Bosma, E., Blom, E., Hoekstra, E., & Versloot, A. (2019). A longitudinal study on the gradual cognate facilitation effect in bilingual children’s Frisian receptive vocabulary. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 22(4), 371-385.
Bosma, E., Hoekstra, E., Versloot, A., & Blom, E. (2017). The minimal and short-lived effects of minority language exposure on the executive functions of Frisian-Dutch bilingual children. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 1453.
Assistant professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Dutch Studies
- Blom E., Bosma E. & Cornips L. (26 February 2024), Praat thuis met uw kind rustig Fries, Limburgs of Achterhoeks. Trouw, Opinie.
- Bosma E., Bakker A., Zenger L. & Blom E. (2023), Supporting the development of the bilingual lexicon through translanguaging: a realist review integrating psycholinguistics with educational sciences, European Journal of Psychology of Education 38: 225-247.
- Gathercole V.C.M., Stadthagen-González H., Parafita Couto M.C., Mulder H.N.M. de, Pérez-Tattam R.S., Bosma E., Borisova B.Z. & Romaneli M.G. (2022), Moveable Figures and Grounds: Making the case for the dual nature of motion events as events of motion AND change of state. In: Levie R. (Ed.), Developing language and literacy: Studies in honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid: Springer Nature Switzerland.
- Blom E, Bosma E. & Heeringa W. (2021), Regular and irregular inflection in different groups of bilingual children and the role of verbal short-term and verbal working memory, Languages 6(1): 56.
- Bosma E. & Blom E. (2020), Language activities in a minority–majority language context: book reading at home is more important for Frisian than for Dutch, Journal of Child Language 47(2): 289-308.
- Bosma E. & Pablos Robles L. (2020), Switching direction modulates the engagement of cognitive control in bilingual reading comprehension: An ERP study, Journal of Neurolinguistics 55: 1-12 (100894).
- Bosma E. & Dijkstra J. (2020), Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) adapted for use in West Frisian, ZAS Papers in Linguistics 64 : 63-68.
- Bosma E. & Nota N. (2019), Cognate facilitation in Frisian–Dutch bilingual children’s sentence reading: An eye-tracking study, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 189: 1-18 (104699).
- Blom E., Boerma T., Bosma E, Cornips L, Heuij K. van den & Timmermeister M. (2019), Cross-language distance influences receptive vocabulary outcomes of bilingual children, First Language 40(2): 151-171.
- Bosma E. & Blom E. (2018), A code-switching asymmetry in bilingual children: code-switching from Dutch to Frisian requires more cognitive control than code-switching from Frisian to Dutch, The International Journal of Bilingualism : 1-17.
- Bosma E., Blom E. & Versloot A. (2017), Language balance and cognitive advantages in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children. In: Lauchlan F. & Parafita Couto M.C. (Eds.), Bilingualism and Minority Languages in Europe: Current trends and developments 141-159.
- Blom E., Boerma T., Bosma E., Cornips L. & Everaert E. (2017), Cognitive advantages of bilingual children in different sociolinguistic contexts, Frontiers in Psychology 8: 1-12.
- Bosma E., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), The minimal and short-lived effects of minority language exposure on the executive functions of Frisian-Dutch bilingual children, Frontiers in Psychology 8(1453): 1-12.
- Bosma E., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Verbal working memory is related to the acquisition of cross-linguistic phonological regularities, Frontiers in Psychology 8(1487): 1-11.
- Bosma E., Heeringa W., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Bilingualism and cognition: acquiring cognates with a cross-linguistic phonological regularity [International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11), Limerick, Ireland, June 13, 2017]. .
- Bosma E., Heeringa W., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Verbal working memory and the acquisition of cognate rules. TABU-dag, Groningen. 22 June 2017 - 22 June 2017. [conference poster].
- Bosma E., Heeringa W., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Verbal working memory and the acquisition of cognate rules. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language., Lyon. 18 July 2017 - 18 July 2017. [conference poster].
- Bosma E., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Minority language exposure, language balance and executive functioning in Frisian-Dutch bilingual children [ECDP, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 31, 2017]. .
- Bosma E., Heeringa W., Hoekstra E., Versloot A. & Blom E. (2017), Verbal working memory and the acquisition of cognate rules. Anela Najaarsstudiedag, Tilburg. 22 September 2017 - 22 September 2017. [conference poster].
- Bosma E. (27 September 2017), ‘Bilingual grammar’: on the acquisition of cognate rules. Linguistics in Leiden. Leiden: Leiden University. [blog entry].
- Bosma E. (2017), Bilingual children acquire bilingual grammar. Leiden (Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition), Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition : .
- Blom E. & Bosma E. (2016), The sooner the better? An investigation into the role of age of onset and its relation with transfer and exposure in bilingual Frisian-Dutch children, Journal of Child Language 43: 581-607.
- Bosma E., Blom E., Hoekstra E. & Versloot A. (2016), A longitudinal study on the gradual cognate facilitation effect in bilingual children’s Frisian receptive vocabulary, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22(4): 371-385.
- Caspers J., Bosma E., Kramm F. & Reya P. (2012), Deaccentuation in Dutch as a second language: Where does the accent go to?, Linguistics in the Netherlands 29: 27-40.