Prof. Dr. Heike Behrens, Cognitive Linguistics and Language Acquisition Research

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.

 

Contact

Prof. Dr. Heike Behrens

German Department
Nadelberg 4
CH-4051 Basel

+41 (0)61 207 27 86
heike.behrens-at-unibas.ch