Prof. Frenette Southwood

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,English Language (Linguistics)
Keywords	child language intervention, child language assessment, child language impairment, child language development, socio-economic status
Honours and awards	2021: National Research Foundation grant for developing and assessing the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for the 11 official languages of South Africa, 2021-2023 2018: National Research Foundation Human and Social Dynamics grant for a research project on early childhood language development and family socialisation, 2018-2020 2013: South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association research grant for a project on making assessment and remediation instruments available in African languages 2010: Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation' Georg Forster grant for a 7-month and additional 2-month research stay in Germany (at Heidelberg University), 2010 2010: Stellenbosch University’s Rector’s Award for outstanding research, 2010 2005: Stellenbosch University’s Rector’s Award for outstanding teaching, 2005 2004: National Research Foundation Thuthuka grant for a research project on language impairment in Afrikaans, 2004-2009

Current contact address

Country	South Africa
City	Matieland
Institution	Stellenbosch University
Institute	Department of General Linguistics

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Felder	Germanistisches Seminar, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship	01/02/2010

Programme(s)

2009	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs