Catherine van Beuningen

Dr. Catherine van Beuningen serves as an Affiliate Researcher at the Institute for Language Sciences within the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, contributing to interdisciplinary research on language structure, processing, and development through collaborative academic initiatives.

Her scholarly focus spans core domains of language sciences, integrating cognitive, social, and computational perspectives to investigate linguistic phenomena. Key research pillars include:

• Linguistics as the foundational discipline for structural language analysis
• Language Acquisition examining developmental and learning mechanisms
• Multilingualism exploring cognitive and societal dimensions of multiple language use
• Psycholinguistics investigating real-time language processing
• Computational Linguistics applying algorithmic modeling to linguistic data
• Language Disorders addressing clinical and neurocognitive aspects of communication impairments