Van Dijk, Chantal, Dr.

Research interests

• Multilingual and second language acquisition
• Sentence processing
• Cross-linguistic influence and structural priming

Projects

• DFG project: Structuring the Input in Language Processing, Acquisition and Change (SILPAC; PIs: Prof. Dr. Holger Hopp and Prof. Dr. Achim Stein; 2022 – present)
• 2in1 project (PI: Dr. Sharon Unsworth; 2017 – 2022)
• Linguistic Aspects of Texting and its Impact on Cognitive and Social Development (LATXTICS; PI: Prof. Dr. Elma Blom; 2014 – 2015)

• van Wonderen, E., van Dijk, C., & Unsworth, S. (2024).  Meta-CLI: A web app for a community-augmented meta-analysis of cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9ezu5

• van Dijk, C., Bosch, J., & Unsworth, S. (2024).  Language processing in bilingual children: Why it matters, what we know and what is still missing. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.24018.van

• van Dijk, C., & Unsworth, S. (2023). On the relation between cross-linguistic influence, between-language priming and language proficiency: priming of ungrammatical adjective placement in bilingual Spanish-Dutch and French-Dutch children. Open Mind, 7, 732-756. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00105

• van Dijk, C., Aumeistere, A., Brouwer, S., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence online: An eye-tracking study on pronoun resolution in simultaneous bilingual Turkish-Dutch children. In Y. Gong & F. Kpogo (Eds.), Proceedings of the 46th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 153-166). Cascadilla. https://www.lingref.com/bucld/46/BUCLD46-12.pdf

• van Dijk, C., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence during online sentence processing in bilingual children. Bilingualism: language and cognition, 25(4), 691-704. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000050
• van Dijk, C., van Wonderen, E., Koutamanis, E., Kootstra, G. J., Dijkstra, T., & Unsworth, S. (2022). Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential bilingual children: a meta-analysis. Journal of Child Language, 49(5), 897-929. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000921000337
• de Jong, J., van Dijk, C., & Blom, W.B.T. (2021). LITMUS SRep – een zinsherhaaltaak voor het Nederlands. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 26. https://doi.org/10.21827/32.8310/2021-96
• van Dijk, C. (2021). Cross-linguistic influence during sentence processing in bilingual children and adults [Doctoral dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen]. LOT Dissertation Series.
• Blom, W.B.T., van Dijk, C., Vasić, N., van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G., Avrutin, S. (2017). Textese and use of texting by children with typical language development and Specific Language Impairment. Computers in Human Behaviour, 66, 42-51.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.010
• Blom, W.B.T., Avrutin, S., van Dijk, C., Vasić, N. & van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G. (2016). Is er een verband tussen het gebruik van texting-taal en taalontwikkeling bij kinderen tussen de 10 en 13 jaar? Levende Talen Tijdschrift, 17 (2), 3-12.
• van Dijk, C., Vasić, N., van Witteloostuijn, M.T.G., Avrutin, S., & Blom, W.B.T. (2016). The influence of textese on children’s grammar and executive functions. Plos One, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152409
• van Dijk, C. & Coopmans, P.H.A. (2013). On the acquisition of daar and er. In S. Aalberse & A. Auer (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2013 (pp. 73-88). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.30.06van