Janet Grijzenhout
Professor English Linguistics
- Name
- Prof.dr. J. Grijzenhout
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1470
- j.grijzenhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-2548-2400
Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English linguistics.
Janet Grijzenhout holds the chair of English linguistics. She has taught phonology, morphology, the history of the English language, first and second language acquisition and comparative linguistics for over twenty years. Her research group focuses on the morphophonology of Germanic languages and on language acquisition. She is always interested in new ways to teach linguistics and to make her research findings accessible to a broad audience.
Research
- Phonology
- Morphology
- Historical Linguistics
- North- and West-Germanic Sound Changes
- First Language Acquisition
- Bilingualism
- Heritage Languages in the EU
- Linguistic Interfaces
Teaching activities
- English Phonetics (BA 1)
- The Phonology of English (BA 2)
- English Sound Structure and Word Formation (BA 3)
- Language Change (BA 3)
- Bilingual Acquisition (MA Linguistics)
Professor English Linguistics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Engels
- Osch B.A. van, Boers I.H.G., Grijzenhout J., Parafita Couto M.C., Sterken B.D. & Tat D. (2022), Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual grammars: Evidence from gender assignment in unilingual Dutch and mixed speech. In: Ayoun D. (Ed.) The Acquisition of Gender. Crosslinguistic perspectives.. no. 63 Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Caon L.M.D., Elenbaas M.B. & Grijzenhout J. (Eds.) (2021), Language use, usage guides and linguistic norms. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Boers I.H.G., Sterken B.D., Osch B.A. van, Parafita Couto M.C., Grijzenhout J. & Tat D. (2020), Gender in unilingual and mixed speech of Spanish heritage speakers in the Netherlands, Languages 5(4): 68.
- Grijzenhout J. (19 March 2018), Spraakmakende ontwikkelingen (Inaugural address. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), Humanities, Leiden). Leiden: Universiteit Leiden.
- Weber T., Schönhuber M. & Grijzenhout J. (2018), The Prosody of Yes/No-Questions in German First Language Acquisition. 197-200.
- Grijzenhout J. (2017), Phonology. In: Brinton L.B., Bergs A. (Eds.) The History of English. Volume 1: Historical Outlines from Sound to Text. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 36-56.
- Grijzenhout J. (2017), Phonology. In: Brinton L.J., Bergs A. (Eds.) The History of English. Volume 1: Historical Outlines from Sound to Text. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter. 36-56.
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