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Charlotte Gooskens is an Associate Professor with ius promovendi at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Arts, Department of Applied Linguistics. Her research focuses on multilingualism, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and the mutual intelligibility of closely related languages. She holds a PhD from the University of Nijmegen (1997) and has held academic positions since 1999, progressing from Assistant to Associate Professor in Scandinavian and European linguistics.
Her key projects include a Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)-funded study on mutual intelligibility across Germanic, Romance, and Slavic languages (2011–2016), and earlier work on Scandinavian language comprehension asymmetries (2006–2011). She explores linguistic and extra-linguistic factors like prosody, syntax, and socio-cultural attitudes influencing language comprehension.
Research highlights include studies on Finland-Swedish bilingualism, articulation rates in Scandinavian languages, and computational models of linguistic distances. She advises on language policy, particularly regarding receptive multilingualism in Europe, and collaborates internationally on projects like ELF (English as a Lingua Franca) comprehension compared to native language pairs.
Her work spans experimental methods (e.g., web-based intelligibility tests), dialectometry, and psycholinguistic approaches. She has published extensively in journals like Linguistics, Nordic Journal of Linguistics, and Language Variation and Change, and authored a monograph on mutual intelligibility in 2024.
