Our Team
Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
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Haus 14, R. 2.38
Prof. Boll-Avetisyan is an assistant professor of developmental psycholinguistics, and her research focuses on language acquisition in young children. She is particularly interested in the question of which factors set the course for mono- and bilingual language acquisition during infancy. She is herself the mother of two bilingual children.
Rowena Garcia
Haus 14, R. 2.37
Rowena Garcia is a postdoc researcher in the Developmental Psycholinguistics group. She is interested in how children, endowed with the same brain, can learn the diversity of the languages of the world. She has previously worked in the Philippines as a speech-language pathologist for children with special needs.
Leonardo Piot
Haus 14, R 3.28
Leonardo Piot is a PhD candidate in Dr. Boll-Avetisyan’s team. He studies language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual infants, with a particular interest in the sounds used in language and how they combine with each other. He was raised in a bilingual French-Italian family.
Turgut Ağabeyoğlu
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Turgut Ağabeyoğlu is a Master's student in Experimental and Clinical Linguistics and research assistant in the C07 project. He is interested in how humans process language and how infants acquire it.
Yulia Panchenko
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Yulia Panchenko is a Master’s student in Experimental and Clinical Linguistics and a research assistant in the C07 project. She is currently focusing on Russian phonotactics, writing her Master’s thesis in the C07 project as well.
Ekaterina Artemeva
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Ekaterina Artemeva is a Master's student in Linguistics and works as a research assistant in project C07. She is interested in language acquisition, language processing and syntax.
Lea Böhme
Lea Böhme is a Master‘s student in Experimental and Clinical Linguistics and an intern in the C07 project. She is interested in the language acquisition of monolingually and bilingually raised infants.
Inga Lakyte
Inga Lakyte is a Master’s student in Linguistics and works as a research assistant in the C07 project. She is a language enthusiast interested in morpho-syntax and language acquisition.
Akila Drai
Akila Drai is a Master's student in Linguistics interested in language acquisition and phonotactics. As a native speaker of Arabic and French she is interested in Arabic speaking babies. She is writing her Master's thesis in the project C07.
Former team members
Arina Shandala
Arina Shandala is a Master's student in Theoretical and Empirical Linguistics and a research assistant in the C07 project. She is interested in bilingual acquisition and methods of studying it.
Vladislav Trakal
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Vladislav Trakal is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Education in Primary School Teaching and works as a research assistant in Project C07. As a prospective English teacher, he is particularly interested in language acquisition in children.
