Aaricia Ponnet

PhD fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) 

  

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Biography

  • 2010-2015: Master of Arts in Oriental Languages and Cultures (Indology), Ghent University

  • 2012: Short Term Intensive Certificate in Hindi, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha (India)

  • 2015-2017: Diploma Course in Kathak Dance as a Scholar of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Mumbai (India)
  • 2017-2018: Doctoral fellow of the Special Research Fund (Ghent University)
  • 2018-present: PhD fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) 

Research interests

  • Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Foreign Language Acquisition (FLA)
  • Hindi as a Foreign Language
  • Multilingualism / Multimodality
  • Syntax/Semantics Interface
  • Typology

Project

 The Acquisition of the Hindi Case System by Dutch-, English- and German-speaking Foreign Language Learners.

Presentations

- Ponnet, A. & S. Verbeke. Object case marking in L2 Hindi. Workshop ‘L2 Acquisition of Alignment Patterns in Typologically Diverse Languages: Case & Agreement’, Ghent University (5 Febr, 2015).

- Ponnet, A. & K. Baten. The Acquisition of Case with Foreign Language Learners of Hindi. An Investigation of Variation and Systematicity in Language Development. The ‘26th EuroSLA Conference’, Jyväskylä, Finland (25 Aug, 2016).

- Ponnet, A. & S. Verbeke. Object Case Marking in L2 Hindi. The ‘International Conference on Hindi Studies’ at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco) in Paris, France (15 Sept, 2016).

- Ponnet, A. The acquisition of the Hindi case marking system: some hypotheses. The '17th International Symposium on Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition', Ludwigsburg, Germany (4 Sept, 2017).

- Ponnet, A. Are universal theories of language acquisition really universal? A preliminary exploration focussing on the Hindi case marking system. The 'LinGhentian Doctorials', Ghent, Belgium (20 Dec, 2017).

- Ponnet, A. & S. Verbeke. Animacy, specificity and verb semantics. What drives Differential Object Marking in Hindi? The '34th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable' (SALA-34), Konstanz, Germany (19 June, 2018).

- Ponnet, A. Morphosyntactic development in oral production data: differential case marking and agreement in Hindi as heritage/second language. The 'LinGhentian Doctorials', Ghent, Belgium (19 Dec, 2018).

- Ponnet, A. Morphosyntactic development in oral production data: differential case marking and agreement in Hindi as heritage/second language. The 'Belgian Indology Day', Ghent, Belgium (21 Dec, 2018).

- Ponnet, A. Case marking by Dutch- and English-speaking Learners of Hindi. Doctoral workshop at the '29th conference of the European Second Language Association' (EuroSLA 29), Lund, Sweden (28 Aug, 2019). Discussant: Prof. Dr. Mike Sharwood Smith.

- Ponnet, A. & K. Baten. Case marking by Dutch- and English-speaking Learners of Hindi. The '19th International Symposium of Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition (PALA)', Reykjavik, Iceland (14 Sep, 2019).

Posters

- Ponnet, A. The acquisition of the Hindi case marking system: some hypotheses. The ‘27th EuroSLA Conference’, Reading, United Kingdom (1 Sept, 2017).

- Ponnet, A. & K. Baten. Morphosyntactic development in oral production data: differential case marking and agreement in Hindi as heritage/second language. The 'Conference on Multilingualism' (COM), Ghent, Belgium (17 Dec, 2018).

Publications

https://biblio.ugent.be/person/000100125319