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Marie Barking is an Assistant Professor at Tilburg University's Department of Communication and Cognition within the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. Her research focuses on language contact, bilingualism, and cognitive mechanisms underlying language use. She holds a doctoral degree from Tilburg University and has published extensively on topics such as language transfer in German-Dutch bilingual speakers and the interplay between cognitive and social factors in language change.
Her work combines experimental, corpus, and theoretical approaches to investigate how bilingual speakers' language systems interact. Key themes include the automaticity and agency in language transfer, usage-based linguistic theories, and individual variation in contact-induced changes. She has contributed datasets to studies on valence framing and language transfer patterns.
Barking collaborates with researchers like Maria Mos and Ad Backus, exploring topics such as divergence and stability in language contact scenarios. Her publications highlight the domain-general cognitive mechanisms shared between language use and expertise in domains like chess or music.
