Barend Beekhuizen

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Assistant Professor
Department of Language Studies
University of Toronto Mississauga (undergraduate appointment)
Department of Linguistics
University of Toronto (graduate appointment)
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto (cross-appointment, status only)

☏ (647) 580-5514
✉ barend.beekhuizen@utoronto.ca
✉ barendbeekhuizen@gmail.com
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office 1: Maanjiwe Nendamowinan 4138 (Language Studies; UTM)
office 2: Sidney Smith Hall 4056 (Linguistics; St. George)
office 3: D.L. Pratt Building 283e (Computer Science; St. George)
CV

Education

      Ph.D.   2015  Leiden University        Linguistics (cum laude)
        (assoc. w/) University of Amsterdam  Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation
      M.Phil  2010  Leiden University        Linguistics (cum laude)
      B.A.    2007  Leiden University        Dutch Language and Culture
    

Research Interests

My main interest is the development of computational models that shed light on word meaning. My primary focus is on the ways in which languages vary in the way they categorize the world with their words, how this variation can inform us about the mental representation of categories, and how such categories are used in discourse. In my research, I use translated and non-translated cross-linguistic corpus data, as well spontaneously produced data, such as conversational spoken language and social media corpora.

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Publications

Dissertation

Beekhuizen, Barend (2015). Constructions Emerging: A Usage-Based Model of the Acquisition of Grammar. Utrecht, LOT. [publisher's link (free pdf download)] [pre-defense slides] [winner of the annual Dutch Linguistics Society dissertation award; slides]

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