Research Interests
Cognitive Linguistics; linguistic relativity, mainly the conceptualisation of temporal and spatial relations in ontogenesis.
Select Bibliography
- H. Behrens, „Directions in German Child and Adult Language“, in: J. Guo, E. Lieven, S. Ervin-Tripp, N. Budwig, S. Oeszaliskan und K. Nakamura (Hrsg.), Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum) – im Druck.
- H. Behrens, „Cognitive-conceptual Development and the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes“, in: Melissa Bowerman & Steve Levinson (Hrsg.), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001), 450-74.