Marijn van Dijk (born 6 August 1972) is a

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. She is currently an

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at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the

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Career

van Dijk obtained her

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at the

in 2004. The title of her thesis was ''Child Language Cuts Capers: Variability and Ambiguity in Early Child Development,'' and it was supervised by her future colleague

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. She is renowned for her work on

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and

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and the application of

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to study second language development. She is one of the members of the "Dutch School of Dynamic Systems" who proposed to apply

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to study

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along with van Geert,

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, de Bot and Verspoor.

Bibliography

Books

*''A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques'' (2011)

Articles

*"Focus on variability: New tools to study intra-individual variability in developmental data." (2002) *"Ambiguity in child language: the problem of interobserver reliability in ambiguous observation data." (2003) *"Disentangling behavior in early child development: Interpretability of early child language and its effect on utterance length measures." (2005) *"Wobbles, humps and sudden jumps: A case study of continuity, discontinuity and variability in early language development." (2007) *"Variability in second language development from a dynamic systems perspective." (2008) *"Variability in eating behavior throughout the weaning period." (2009) *"An identity approach to second language acquisition." (2011) *"The dynamics of feeding during the introduction to solid food." (2012) *"Dynamic adaptation in child–adult language interaction." (2013) *"A process approach to children's understanding of scientific concepts: A longitudinal case study." (2014)

References

External links

* Professor van Dijk on the University of Groningen's website: https://www.rug.nl/staff/m.w.g.van.dijk/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Dijk, Marijn van 1972 births Living people Applied linguists Women linguists Linguists from the Netherlands University of Groningen faculty University of Groningen alumni People from Heerlen