Rosemarie Tracy
Rosemarie Tracy is a German linguist specializing in language acquisition. She is currently senior professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim.
Biography[edit]
Tracy studied English, French and Portuguese at the universities of Mannheim and Göttingen, as well as Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctorate at the University of Mannheim for a thesis on child first language acquisition based on longitudinal studies. Subsequently, she taught and researched at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen, taking a habilitation for her work on bilingual child language acquisition. She was appointed professor of English linguistics at Mannheim in 1995. She became senior professor in 2019.[1]
In 2022 she was awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievement by the German Linguistics Society (DGfS).[2]
Research and outreach[edit]
Tracy's research revolves around language acquisition and psycholinguistics, and she has published widely on topics such as code-switching, borrowing, and language change at the individual level. She has led projects funded by the German Research Council on comparing monolingual and bilingual acquisition and on German as a heritage language in the US. She is one of the founders of the MAZEM – Mannheim Center for Empirical Multilingual Research.[1]
She is the author of an influential popular book, How children learn languages (German: Wie Kinder Sprachen lernen), written for parents of multilingual children, teachers, and early-years educators.[1]
Publications[edit]
- Tracy, Rosemarie. 1986. The acquisition of case morphology in German. Linguistics 24 (1), 47–78. doi:10.1515/ling.1986.24.1.47
- Fritzenschaft, Agnes, Ira Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Rosemarie Tracy, and Susanne Winkler. 1990. Wege zur komplexen Syntax (Routes to complex syntax). Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 9 (1-2), 52–134. doi:10.1515/zfsw.1990.9.1-2.52
- Tracy, Rosemarie. 1991. Sprachliche Strukturentwicklung: linguistische und kognitionspsychologische Aspekte einer Theorie des Erstspracherwerbs. (The development of structure in language: linguistic and cognitive-psychological aspects of a theory of first language acquisition.) Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. ISBN 9783823347118
- Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Ira, Rosemarie Tracy, and Agnes Fritzenschaft. 1992. Language Acquisition and Competing Linguistic Representations: The Child as Arbiter. In Jürgen M. Meisel (ed.), The Acquisition of Verb Placement: Functional Categories and V2 Phenomena in Language Acquisition, 139–179. Dordrecht: Kluwer. doi:10.1007/978-94-011-2803-2_6
- Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Ira, and Rosemarie Tracy. 1996. Bilingual bootstrapping. Linguistics 34 (5), 901–926. doi:10.1515/ling.1996.34.5.901
- Tracy, Rosemarie. 2008. Wie Kinder Sprachen lernen: und wie wir sie dabei unterstützen können (How children learn languages and how we can support them). Second edition. Tübingen: Francke Verlag. ISBN 9783772083068
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Tracy". Retrieved 1 May 2022.
- ^ "DGfS vergibt Wilhelm von Humboldt-Preis 2022 für ihr Lebenswerk an Rosemarie Tracy". Retrieved 1 May 2022.