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 |
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| Education | BA, Germanic philology MA, General and English Linguistics Specialization, Psycholinguistics PhD, Linguistics |
| Alma mater | Free University of Brussels |
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| 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).[1]
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.[2] 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.[3]
De Houwer has been a residential fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).[4] She is a member of the TalkBank advisory board[5] at Carnegie Mellon University, and has been a member of the scientific advisory board of MultiLing at the University of Oslo.