A.M.H. van Hout

Dr. A.M.H. van Hout is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Groningen, leading the Acquisition Lab within the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). Their research focuses on first language acquisition in monolingual children, particularly exploring temporal and nominal reference, tense/aspect, telicity, definiteness, and crosslinguistic variation. Key areas include syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and theory of mind reasoning in child language development.

Research activities include cross-linguistic studies in Dutch, French, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, and others, with emphasis on disjunction interpretation, negation scope, and tense systems. Collaborations involve international teams and comparative studies. Publications span 89 works, including peer-reviewed articles and conference contributions. Van Hout actively participates in academic events, editorial work, and public engagement initiatives on child language topics.

Supervision activities include mentoring students in language acquisition research. The Acquisition Lab serves as a hub for experimental studies on child language development, integrating formal linguistic theories with empirical methods.