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Ruben van de Vijver is a Professor of Phonetics and Phonology at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Department of Linguistics. His office is located in Building 23.21, Room 04.048, with office hours held on Wednesdays from 15:00 to 16:00 and by appointment.
His research centers on the sound structures of language, with primary interests in phonetics, phonology, morphology, and their interfaces. Key areas include laboratory phonology, metrical phonology, morphophonology, prosodic morphology, sociophonetics, and language acquisition. He investigates how phonetic detail influences phonological representations and how morphological knowledge interacts with phonological processes, particularly through experimental and computational approaches.
Van de Vijver's recent publications (2023-2024) reveal a strong emphasis on discriminative learning models applied to linguistic phenomena, especially in Maltese and Kinyarwanda. His work bridges phonetics, phonology, and morphology using interdisciplinary methods from cognitive science and neuroscience, exploring word recognition, morphological acquisition, intonation variation, and neural correlates of language processing.
He actively participates in professional communities as a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (German Society for Linguistics), the Association for Laboratory Phonology, and GĦILM (International Association of Maltese Linguistics), reflecting his engagement with both theoretical frameworks and language-specific research.
