Arild Hestvik
Arild Hestvik
Office location
91原创 鈥 105 The Green 鈥 Wolf Hall, Room 111 鈥 Newark, DE 19716, USA
302-831-7007 鈥⒙epl.udel@gmail.com
105 The Green 鈥 Wolf Hall, Suite 123 鈥 Newark, DE 19716, USA
Education
- Ph.D. 鈥 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
- B.A. 鈥 University of Trondheim, Norway
Biography
Arild Hestvik, Ph.D., is a professor with the Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the 91原创.聽He received his Ph.D. in psychology (linguistics and cognitive science) from Brandeis University and his B.A. in theoretical linguistics and computer science at the University of Trondheim in Norway.
鈥婬estvik studies how the brain computes linguistic representations in real time. He also examines how the brain understands grammar and how language processing mechanisms develop in children.聽
Before he joined the 91原创 in 2007, Hestvik was a NIH researcher at CUNY Graduate Center (2000-2006); a professor of linguistics at the University of Bergen in Norway (1995-2006); and a researcher at the University of Stuttgart (1990 to 1995).
Research Projects
罢丑别听聽examines the millisecond-by-millisecond incremental representation building that the mind/brain performs in response to language stimuli.
Research Areas
Psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience of language
Research Questions
- What are the components of the human language processing system?
- What is the relative timing of these components' activity during linguistic representation building?
- What can parsing tell us about grammar?
- How do the language processing mechanisms develop in children?
- How does this development interact with children's induction of grammatical rules?
- Do language-impaired children process language differently and is this the source of their acquisition impairment?
The research uses behavioral (reaction time and categorical data) and electrophysiological measures of brain activity (EEG and event-related brain potentials) to address these questions.
Publications
Han, C., Hestvik, A., & Idsardi, W. (2026). Within-Category Mismatch Responses to Parametrically Varying Speech Sounds. European Journal of Neuroscience, 63(8).
Asami, D., Han, C., Burger, J., Dunlop, D., Lu, Y., Yahya, E., Morad, M., Zhao, C., & Hestvik, A. (2025). 鈥淣egation-blind鈥 N400 effect disappears when lexical priming is controlled. Experiments in Linguistic Meaning, 3, 19鈥31.
Shinohara, Y., Han, C., & Hestvik, A. (2023). English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners. Language and Speech, 00238309231209311.
Dong, Z. R., Han, C., Hestvik, A., & Hermon, G. (2022). L2 processing of filled gaps: Non-native brain activity not modulated by proficiency and working memory. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(6), 767鈥800.
Hestvik, A., Epstein, B., Schwartz, R. G., & Shafer, V. L. (2022). Developmental Language Disorder as Syntactic Prediction Impairment. In Frontiers in Communication (Vol. 6).