Prof. Dr. Eva Belke

eva.belke[at]rub.de

Office: GB 1/162

Tel.: +49 234 32-25116 and +49 234 32-28460 (Sekretariat, 8 bis 15 Uhr)

Fax: +49 234 32-14137

Contact hours: by individual appointment via email.

Current Research Interests

• Psycholinguistic perspectives on language learning and teaching
• Lexical-semantic representations and processes
• Cognitive resources of language processing
• Aphasiology and clinical linguistics
• Co-ordination of visual and linguistic encoding processes

Current Research Projects

• Litkey

Recent Publications

• Belke, E. (2025). Vermittlung morphosyntaktischer und orthographischer Kompetenzen von Anfang an. In: N. McElvany, R. Kleinkorres, M. Becker,  Ch. Dignath, & Annika Ohle-Peters (Hrsg.). IFS Bildungsdialoge 7: Förderung sprachlicher Kompetenzen als Grundlage für mehr Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Waxmann.
• Wedig, H., Theodor, F., Wieler, J., & Belke, E. (2024). PLD2flex: Establishing the phonological Levenshtein distance for pairs or groups of (pseudo)words. Journal of Open Research Software, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.510
• Wieler, J., Nenchev, I., & Belke, E. (2024). How does administering the semantic fluency task repeatedly within a short time frame affect participants response generation performance? AMLaP 2024, Edinburgh. https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/31397/submission/278
• von Lehmden, F, Müller-Brauers, C. & Belke, E. (2024). Grammatikförderung mit den Litkey-Bilderbüchern: Das Handbuch für Kita und Grundschule [Forstering Grammar by Means of the Litkey Picture Books: A Handbook for Kindergarten and Primary School Staff] (2nd ed.). Schneider Hohengehren. [for more details on the picture books, see here]
• Belke, E., Kuba, S., & Braun P. M. (2022). Optimizing the presentation of the input facilitates the acquisition of gender-like subclasses in preschool children. AMLaP 2022, York. PDF
• Kuba, S., Braun, P. M., & Belke, E. (2022). Help or hindrance? Effects of additional mor-phosyntactic cues on the acquisition of gender-like subclasses in an artificial language by 4- to 6-year-olds. Bulletin Suisse de Linguistique Appliquée, 115, 117-142.
• von Lehmden, F, Müller-Brauers, C. & Belke, E. (2022). Grammatikförderung mit den Litkey-Bilderbüchern: Das Handbuch für Kita und Grundschule (unter Mitarbeit von Alexandra Blank, Bernd Lehmann, Stefan Linck, Lisa Porps). Schneider Hohengehren.
• Bose, A., Patra, A., Antoniou, G. E., Stickland, R., & Belke, E. (2022). Verbal fluency difficulties in aphasia: A combination of lexical and executive control deficits. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 57(3), 593-614. doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12710
• Belke, E., von Lehmden, F., & Müller-Brauers, C. (2020). Specially designed children´s books and songs for training the acquisition of German gender and case. Extended abstract and poster presentation held at AMLaP 2020, Potsdam. [PDF]