Dr. Isabella Fritz

Biography

Isabella Fritz is a Senior Research Associate at the Language & Brain Laboratory, focusing on various aspects of language processing. Her current research concentrates on phonological and morpho-phonological processing in both first and second language contexts, utilizing EEG as the main experimental method. She has a particular interest in loanword and cognate processing. Since joining the Language & Brain Lab in September 2020, she has been working on projects related to speech production, one of which is the Bilingual Word Production project that examines the planning of complex words in second language English speakers. This project is backed by the John Fell Fund. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, where she explored semantic and syntactic composition in language and how the brain integrates single words into coherent phrases and sentences. Isabella completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham, where she conducted significant research on how iconic gestures interact with speech in discourse comprehension and sentence production, contributing to the field of psycholinguistics and highlighting the importance of making linguistic findings accessible to language educators for effective classroom practice.

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