Henriëtte Hendriks
Name:
Henriëtte Hendriks
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
Position:
Reader in Language Acquisition and Cognition and Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.
Dr Henriëtte P J M Hendriks MA, PhD (Leiden).
Dr Hendriks obtained a BA and MA in Sinology and Linguistics (1986), and a PhD in Psycholinguistics at Leiden University in 1993. In 2003 she obtained an HDR at the University of Paris 8. She worked as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen for 12 years, coordinating three different international research projects on first- and second-language acquisition in the domains of time, space and reference to person in discourse and continues to be involved in various European-based projects (Langacross, VILLA). She has been working at the University of Cambridge since 1998 and was Acting Director of RCEAL from 2007-2010. She supervises M.Phil and PhD students in the Department but also internationally. Dr. Hendriks is a Guest Professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BeiWai) and at Qingdao Ocean University (2011-2014), an associate member of the CNRS laboratory ‘Structures Formelles du Langage’, and member of various scientific councils and bodies.
Previous and ongoing research projects and collaborations have led to an extensive number of publications. Her principal interest in psycholinguistics is in the interaction between language and cognition involving languages as different as Dutch, German, English, French, Chinese and Polish. Research questions arising deal with the influence of language-specific differences on first- and second-language acquisition, and the effects of cognitive maturity on the acquisition process. Some publications include: Hendriks, H., & Hickmann, M. (2011) Space in second language acquisition. In: Vivian Cook and Benedetta Bassetti (eds.) Language and Bilingual Cognition. Hove, UK: Psychology Press, 315-339; Ji,Y., Hendriks, H., & Hickmann, M. (2011) Typological issues regarding the expression of caused motion events in Chinese and in English. Linguistics, 49; Hendriks, H., Hickmann, M, & Lindner, K. Space, language, and cognition: New advances in acquisition research. In: Hendriks, Hickmann, & Lindner (eds.) Space, language, and cognition: developmental perspectives. Special issue of Cognitive Linguistics; and The Structure of Learner Varieties. Edited Volume. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 2005.