Annick De Houwer
Annick De Houwer | |
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| Born | 3 January 1958 Schoten, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist, academic, researcher and author |
| Awards | Fulbright award VNC-award President of the International Association for the Study of Child Language |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, Germanic philology MA, General and English Linguistics Specialization, Psycholinguistics PhD, Linguistics |
| Alma mater | Free University of Brussels |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Antwerp, Belgium University of Erfurt, Germany Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilNet) |
Annick De Houwer (born 3 January 1958) is a Belgian linguist, academic, researcher and author. She is the Initiator and Director of the Harmonious Bilingualism Network (HaBilNet).
De Houwer's research has focused on early child bilingualism and the role of input in bilingual acquisition and on bilingual families' well-being. She has authored the books Bilingual Development in Childhood; Bilingual First Language Acquisition; An Introduction to Bilingual Development; and The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth: a Case Study. She was co-series editor of Trends in Language Acquisition Research and series editor of IMPACT: Studies of Language in Society. She has also co-edited several books, most recently The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism (2019). Her writings have been published in Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
De Houwer has been a residential fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS). She is a member of the TalkBank advisory board at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a member of the scientific advisory board of MultiLing at the University of Oslo.