Showtime! Stereotypes about English loanwords in children

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About the research

About the research

'Yow', 'Peace', 'Man'. Those English loanwords fly around joyfully when Melissa Schuring (KU Leuven) asks children for her research to briefly imitate a rapper. Very different, in fact, from when she has them play a farmer or a minister. Experiments like this teach her more about the development of linguistic stereotypes in children. In her video, she tells you more about her research. Mic drop

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Melissa Schuring
KU Leuven

 

 As a child, Melissa Schuring was a real blabbermouth and her fascination with language continued when growing up. In her PhD, Melissa combines two great passions: sociolinguistics and child language. Together with her supervisor, Eline Zenner, she developed new methods to answer the million-dollar question of her PhD thesis: as of when and why do Belgian Dutch-speaking children use English loanwords in their speech?

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