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Prof. Sergey Avrutin is a Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, within the College of Humanities. His research integrates information theory into language processing studies, focusing on typically and atypically developing children, adults, and individuals with aphasia. He previously led the NWO-sponsored PIONEER research program (2000-2005) and current projects explore rule induction from partially ordered input and entropy-driven models.
Prof. Avrutin has held academic roles such as Research Leader, Promoter, and Executor across multiple NWO and EU-funded projects. His research spans syntax-discourse interface, language acquisition disorders, bilingualism diagnostics, and special registers like headlines and TV commentary. He collaborates with international institutions including Berlin's Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft and Russia's Herzen State Pedagogical University.
His teaching includes courses on Cognitive Science, Language and Law, and the Syntax-Discourse Interface. Recent work highlights contributions to understanding lexical access in aphasia, the role of prosody in anaphora resolution, and statistical learning mechanisms. His articles and projects reflect a focus on interdisciplinary methods, combining experimental and theoretical approaches to linguistic phenomena.
