Jorrig Vogels

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I am a linguist with a fascination for the way thoughts can be expressed in a linear series of words, which are subsequently picked up by someone else and decoded again in thoughts. So far, my research has focussed on the question how people refer to an entity they have in mind. Using language production experiments, I investigated the mechanisms behind speakers' referential choices, such as the use of pronouns (e.g., she) versus more specific descriptions (e.g., the girl). In 2014, I received my PhD from Tilburg University, with a dissertation on the interaction between linguistic and non-linguistic factors in referential choices.

Besides reference, I am also interested in the cognitive and social processes that drive language use. As a postdoc at Saarland University, I investigated language production and comprehension processes in dual task settings using pupillometry. More recently, I finished the NWO Veni project 'Try to see it my way' at the University of Groningen, in which I explored to what degree speakers take the perspective of their listeners into account when referring to something.

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