Bethany Stoddard

Bethany Stoddard is a PhD student and Researcher (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) at the University of Bonn, affiliated with the Department of English, American & Celtic Studies. She is supervised by Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs on the project Young German Learner English: Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency. Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, first/second language acquisition, and the syntax-discourse interface, employing quantitative methods from psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics.

Her doctoral work examines dative and benefactive alternations in young German learners of English, exploring cross-linguistic influence from L1 German on L2 English structures. Key contributions include corpus-based studies on learner English (2024) and experimental work on child language processing (2021). Her presentations span developmental psycholinguistics, artificial language learning (2023), and learnability theory (2020).

No scientific awards are listed. She advises no students but collaborates on the Corpus of Young German Learner English project and participates in interdisciplinary teams. Office hours are held weekly in Rabinstraße 8, Room 2.060.