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Laura Rosseel is a Professor of Linguistics at the Brussels Centre for Language Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, Dutch language variation, and experimental methods in language studies. She leads multiple interdisciplinary projects including FWO-funded studies on language acquisition and social meaning. Her work combines qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand how language variation reflects social identity and cognitive development.
- Expertise: Sociolinguistics, Dutch dialectology, experimental linguistics
- Key Projects: Acquiring social meaning of language variation (2021-2024), Children’s social evaluations of English in Dutch (2020-2024), Multilingual language histories (2024-2029)
Her research interests include measuring language attitudes through innovative methods like the Personalized Implicit Association Test. Recent studies explore how children develop sociolinguistic expectations about social roles and language variation. She has published widely in journals like Journal of Linguistic Geography and International Journal of Bilingualism.
- Awards: Hituzi Young Scholar Award (2017), FWO Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019)
- Grants: Multiple FWO and bilateral projects totaling over EUR 1M in funding
Rosseel is actively involved in academic outreach, appearing in media discussions about language policy and youth language use. She supervises PhD candidates and collaborates internationally on language contact studies.
