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Ditte Boeg Thomsen is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in functional-cognitive linguistics at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. She specializes in the interplay between language and cognition across multiple domains including children's language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and field linguistics.
Her primary research areas include first language acquisition, social cognition, memory and attention, autism and language, atypical neurological development, semantic typology, linguistic fieldwork, and language endangerment. She investigates how language and cognition mutually affect each other, examining both typical and atypical development in children as well as crosslinguistic differences in indigenous languages of Mexico.
Boeg Thomsen's recent research output demonstrates strong interdisciplinary connections between linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, and education. Her work spans child language acquisition, particularly focusing on perspective-marking grammar and its relationship to social cognition, as well as field studies on spatial language and cognition in Nahuan languages. She also contributes significantly to research on Cerebellar Mutism Syndrome in children with brain tumors.
She serves on the governing board of the Scandinavian Association for Language and Cognition (SALC) and is editor of the language journal Mål og Mæle. She is also a member of the Linguistic Circle's Committee for Support of Endangered Languages.
Boeg Thomsen is actively involved in teaching, currently offering a course in Functional-Cognitive Linguistics, and has previously taught numerous linguistics courses covering typological analysis, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and Mesoamerican linguistics. She supervises students in areas including children's language acquisition, viewpoint-marking language, language in autism, space and orientation, associated motion, semantic typology, and field linguistics.
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