Mirjam Ernestus

Mirjam Ernestus is a Professor of Psycholinguistics at the Centre for Language Studies within Radboud University's Faculty of Arts. She serves as Chair of the Editorial Board of Radboud University Press and Scientific Director of the Centre for Language Studies since 2017. Her career spans 20+ years in psycholinguistics and phonetics research.

• Member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Recipient of ERC Starting Grant and NWO VICI grant
• Specializes in speech comprehension and conversational speech

Research Focus: Her work integrates psycholinguistics and phonetics to explore auditory word recognition, morphological processing, and cross-linguistic speech phenomena. She develops computational models like DIANA for speech comprehension analysis.

Publication Trends: Recent studies examine exemplar-based processing differences between native/non-native speakers, phonetic-morphological interactions, speech rate dynamics, and multimodal language learning approaches. Her work frequently applies machine learning and experimental paradigms.

Awards:

• ERC Starting Grant (2011)
• NWO VICI grant (2011)
• KNAW membership (2015)
• EURYI Award (2006)

Leadership: She has directed major research initiatives including the gravitation project Language in Interaction and the Research Unit Spoken Morphology. Her management roles include overseeing 160+ researchers at the Centre for Language Studies.