Mirjam Ernestus
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Mirjam Ernestus studied General Linguistics at VU University Amsterdam. In 1994, she started her PhD project at the same university, on the interface of phonology and phonetics, with a focus on incomplete neutralization and on pronunciation variation in informal speech. From 2000 – 2007, Mirjam was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She broadened her research interests to morphological variation, both variation in affix selection (allomorphy) and the exact pronunciation of affixes. She also started investigating research questions with a combination of methodologies: corpus research, psycholinguistic experimentation, and computational modeling. In 2007, Mirjam got a tenure position at the Radboud University, and, during the following ten years, she conducted research in three large projects, focusing on pronunciation variation. In 2019, Mirjam started a new project, explicitly continuing her research on morphology and morphological variation. In 2012, Mirjam became a full professor at Radboud University and served as the scientific director of its Centre for Language Studies for six years. Mirjam has been the general editor of the journal Laboratory Phonology (2015-2021), a member of the editorial board of Morphology since 2015, and the chair of the Editorial Board of the Radboud University Press since 2021.