Dr. Henriëtte Hendriks

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Henriëtte Hendriks is a Professor at the University of Cambridge in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, specializing in language acquisition and cognitive linguistics. Her major research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition, exploring how humans acquire language in both child and adult contexts. Hendriks completed her studies in Sinology at Leiden University and began her career at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, where she coordinated various projects on child language acquisition. Since moving to Cambridge in 1998, she has engaged in teaching and research related to discourse analysis and linguistic relativity. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator at the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualized Cognition (CLIC) examining multilingualism and cognitive flexibility. Throughout her career, she has led significant research inquiries into the impacts of language learning on cognitive processes, particularly in multilingual contexts and has worked on several major funded projects in these areas. She actively welcomes inquiries from prospective MPhil and PhD students who share her research interests.

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