Dr. Ditte Thomsen

Biography

Ditte Boeg Thomsen is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics. Her research primarily focuses on language acquisition, social cognition, and psycholinguistics, with a specific interest in how language and cognition influence each other in both typical and atypical development. She investigates children's language acquisition, examining how cognitive processes such as attention and memory play a role in learning language. Additionally, Ditte explores language development in children with autism, understanding how linguistic strategies can aid their social cognition. She is also involved in interdisciplinary work related to the cognitive aspects of language across various languages, particularly in cross-linguistic comparisons. Her PhD dissertation examined mental-state reasoning in children with autism, and her postdoctoral research has contributed to understanding linguistic structures in children's development, especially in Danish and Otomanguean languages. She actively works with various research groups and committees to promote knowledge and support for endangered languages. She teaches courses in functional-cognitive linguistics and other linguistics subjects at the University of Copenhagen.

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