Dr Henriëtte P J M Hendriks, MA, PhD (Leiden)
Dr Hendriks obtained a Masters degree in Sinology and Linguistics (1986) and a PhD in Psycholinguistics at Leiden University in 1993, and an HDR at Paris 8 (2003). She worked as a student assistant, research associate and staff member at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen for 12 years, coordinating three different international research projects on first-language 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. She has been working in the Centre since 1998 and is currently Acting Director of RCEAL. Dr. Hendriks is also currently a Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, Guest Professor at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BeiWai) and an associate member of the CNRS laboratory (UMR 7023) entitled Structures Formelles du Langage.
Dr Hendriks's previous and ongoing research projects and co-operations have led to an extensive number of publications. Her principal interest in psycholinguistics is in the interaction between language and cognition and language and culture 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. Recent publications include Hendriks, Hickmann & Demagny (2008), How English native speakers learn to express caused motion in English and French (in Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Étrangère, 27); Gullberg, Hendriks, & Hickmann (2008), Learning to talk and gesture about motion in French (in First Language, 28); Hickmann & Hendriks (2006), Static and dynamic location in French and English. (in First Language, 26); and The Structure of Learner Varieties (edited volume, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005).