Our Team
Prof. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan, Ph.D.
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Building 14, 2.38
Prof. Boll-Avetisyan is a 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.
Leonardo Piot, Ph.D.
Building 14, 3.28
Leonardo Piot is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Boll-Avetisyan’s team. He studies language acquisition in monolingual and bilingual infants, with a particular interest in how infants learn to recognize and distinguish speech sounds, acquire the sound patterns of their language, and start to understand words.
Lara Hamburger
Building 14, 2.05
Lara Hamburger is a PhD candidate in Prof. Dr. Boll-Avetisyan’s research group. She investigates language acquisition in monol- and multilingual infants and is particularly interested in how children understand spoken words and build their vocabulary. She also explores the role of attention and other early abilities in these processes.
Gina Hänsel
Building 14, 2.13
Gina Hänsel is a PhD candidate in Prof. Dr. Boll-Avetisyan’s research group. She is studying language acquisition in young children and its impact on later language development. Given her background as a speech and language pathologist, she is particularly interested in clinical language development trajectories.
Hanna Fritzenwanker
hanna.fritzenwanker@uni-potsdam.de
Hanna Fritzenwanker works as a student assistant on Projects B07 and C07. She is interested in multimodal bilingualism—that is, the simultaneous acquisition of a sign language and a spoken language.
Laura Christina Suthe
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Laura Christina Suthe works as a research assistant in the B07 project. She is particularly interested in language acquisition in young children and its impact on later language development.
Former team members
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.