Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Current courses
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External positions
Chief Editor (International Journal of Bilangualism)
1 Jan 2019 → …
Member of curriculum committee (LOT)
1 Jan 2006 → …
Keywords
- Multilingualism
- Turkish
- Multicultural Society
- Sociolinguistics
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 1 No Poverty -
SDG 4 Quality Education -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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‘Bridging voices’: The role of multilingualism in fostering inclusion in deliberative mini-publics
van Viersen, J., Bezcioğlu-Göktolga, I., Backus, A. & Bleijenberg, C., 2026, (Unpublished) 21 p.Research output: Working paper › Discussion paper › Scientific
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Awkward pronouns in language contact: Investigating interference of standard Dutch in Limburgian pronoun use
Piepers, J., Barking, M., Backus, A. & Swanenberg, J., 2025, In: Journal of Language Contact. 18, 1, p. 1-40 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Sociopragmatic pronouns in Limburgian: inferring speakers’ agency from self-reported automaticity, attitudes, and metalinguistic awareness
Piepers, J., Backus, A. & Swanenberg, J., 25 Feb 2025, In: Cognitive Linguistics. 36, 1, p. 89-119 31 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Translanguaging and codeswitching
Backus, A. M., 6 Feb 2025, In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 15, 1, p. 36-40 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Individual variation in contact effects – stability, convergence, and divergence
Barking, M., Mos, M. & Backus, A., 1 Mar 2024, In: Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 34 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Activities
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Usage-based approaches to language contact, Organized by: Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach" (RUEG, FOR 2537)
Backus, A. (Contributor)
3 Dec 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course etc. › Scientific
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Intense Turkish-Dutch Bilingualism Leads to Intense Turkish-Dutch Mixing. A Usage-Based Account of Increasing Integration of Two Typologically Different Languages.
Backus, A. (Speaker)
29 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
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International Symposium on Bilingualism
Backus, A. (Contributor)
10 Jul 2021 → 14 Jul 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference › Scientific
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Not always written in stone: A usage-based account of cross-linguistic influence on word combination.
Backus, A. (Speaker)
7 Jun 2021 → 8 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
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Rethinking structuralist findings about codeswitching through a usage-based lens.
Backus, A. (Speaker)
18 May 2021 → 19 May 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
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Synchronic register variation in monolingual and bilingual Turkish
Backus, A. (Researcher)
1/10/01 → …
Project: Research project
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‘Bridging voices’: the role of multilingualism in fostering inclusion in deliberative mini-publics
van Viersen, J. (Principal Investigator), Bezcioğlu-Göktolga, I. (Co-Investigator), Backus, A. (Co-Investigator) & Bleijenberg, C. (Co-Investigator)
1/09/24 → 1/09/26
Project: Research project
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Language change in spoken Turkish in Europe and Turkey
Extra, G. (Tutor), Dogruoz, S. (Researcher) & Backus, A. (Coach)
1/01/03 → 1/01/07
Project: Research project
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Lexicon en morfologie. Relatie tussen woordkennis, woordfrequentie en affixproductiviteit bij NT1- en NT2-leerlingen met verschillende taalleerstijlen.
Backus, A. (Coach), Vermeer, A. (Coach), Buschenhenke, F. (Researcher) & Mos, M. (Researcher)
1/09/01 → 1/05/03
Project: Research project
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Idiomatische structuur en taalverandering in Turks-Nederlands en Limburgs-Nederlands taalcontact
Backus, A. (Researcher)
1/03/00 → 1/06/02
Project: Research project
Prizes
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LOT Grotevragenprijs
van Miltenburg, E. (Recipient), Backus, A. (Recipient), Cohen, M. (Recipient), Cohn, N. (Recipient), Faber, M. (Recipient), Krahmer, E. (Recipient), Laparle, S. (Recipient), Sciubba, M. E. (Recipient), Shterionov, D. (Recipient), Sie, M. (Recipient), Tomas, F. (Recipient), Vanmassenhove, E. (Recipient), Venhuizen, N. (Recipient) & de Vos, C. (Recipient), 2023
Prize
Datasets
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Variation is information: Analyses of variation across items, participants, time, and methods in metalinguistic judgment data
Verhagen, V. (Creator), Mos, M. (Creator), Schilperoord, J. (Creator) & Backus, A. (Creator), DataverseNL, 6 Sept 2018
DOI: 10.34894/aad5a9, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/AAD5A9
Dataset
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Metalinguistic judgments are psycholinguistic data
Verhagen, V. (Creator), Mos, M. (Creator), Backus, A. (Creator) & Schilperoord, J. (Creator), DataverseNL, 8 Apr 2019
DOI: 10.34894/icixqa, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/ICIXQA
Dataset
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Predictive language processing revealing usage-based variation
Verhagen, V. (Creator), Mos, M. (Creator), Backus, A. (Creator) & Schilperoord, J. (Creator), DataverseNL, 3 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.34894/4ezrro, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/4EZRRO
Dataset
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The impact of first and second language exposure on learning second language constructions [Dataset]
Matusevych, Y. (Creator), Alishahi, A. (Creator) & Backus, A. (Creator), DataverseNL, 28 Jun 2016
DOI: 10.34894/zztbtt, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/ZZTBTT
Dataset
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Usage and judgment data by German-Dutch bilinguals
Barking, M. (Contributor), Backus, A. (Contributor) & Mos, M. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 31 May 2022
DOI: 10.34894/cqzaat, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/CQZAAT
Dataset