Language Acquisition and Development: Proceedings of GALA 2013

Cornelia Hamann is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, a position she has held since 2004. She obtained her PhD at the University of Freiburg and her Habilitation at the University of Tübingen, and became a leading expert in the field of language acquisition and impairment during her work at the University of Geneva.

Esther Ruigendijk has been a Professor in the Department of Dutch Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, since 2005. She received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include language acquisition, language impairment, and language processing. Within these areas, she concentrates on syntactic and lexical phenomena.