Jan Vanhove
Biographic Data
| ID | 1691897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Vanhove |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanhove |
| SIGNATURE | VANHOVE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Fribourg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4607-4836 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Critical comments on Amoruso et al. (2025)
In a much-publicised large-scale study, [Amoruso, Lucia, Hernan Hernandez, Hernando Santamaria-Garcia, Sebastian Moguilner, Agustina Legaz, Pavel Prado, Jhosmary Cuadros, et al. 2025. “Multilingualism Protects against Accelerated Aging in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of 27 European Countries.” Nature Aging 5:2340–2354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01000-2.] purport to have found evidence that multilingualism protects against ac…
Towards simpler and more transparent quantitative research reports
The average quantitative research report in applied linguistics is needlessly complicated. Articles with over fifty hypothesis tests are no exception, but despite such an onslaught of numbers, the patterns in the data often remain opaque to readers well-versed in quantitative methods, not to mention to colleagues, students, and non-academics without years of experience in navigating results sections. I offer five suggestions for increasing both t…
What would disprove interdependence? Lessons learned from a study on biliteracy in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland
This article reports on an investigation into the bilingual development of literacy skills in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland in which we sought to put Cummins’ linguistic interdependence hypothesis to the test. Three predictions were derived from this hypothesis: (1) Literacy skill levels in one of the bilinguals’ languages can best be predicted from skill levels in both languages at an earlier point in time; (2) Crosslingui…
The effect of bidialectalism on executive function
Aims and objectives: We investigate how varying usage patterns in speakers of closely related language varieties might impact executive function. More specifically, bidialectals with more balanced usage were predicted to show better inhibitory control than less balanced bidialectals. Design: Thirty-four adult bidialectals of Standard German and Swabian German performed two executive function tasks (flanker and Simon). Data and analysis: The parti…
When labeling L2 users as nativelike or not, consider classification errors
Researchers commonly estimate the prevalence of nativelikeness among second-language learners by assessing how many of them perform similarly to a sample of native speakers on one or several linguistic tasks. Even when the native (L1) samples and second-language (L2) samples are comparable in terms of age, socio-economic status, educational background and the like, these nativelikeness estimates are difficult to interpret theoretically. This is s…
The Influence of Standard and Substandard Dutch on Gender Assignment in Second Language German
This study investigated how standard and substandard varieties of first language (L1) Dutch affect grammatical gender assignments to nouns in second language (L2) German. While German distinguishes between masculine, feminine, and neuter gender, the masculine-feminine distinction has nearly disappeared in Standard Dutch. Many substandard Belgian Dutch varieties, however, still mark this distinction, making them more akin to German than Standard D…
The early learning of interlingual correspondence rules in receptive multilingualism
Aims and objectives: This article investigates whether learners are able to quickly discover simple, systematic graphemic correspondence rules between their L1 and an unknown but closely related language in a setting of receptive multilingualism. Design: Eighty L1 German speakers participated in a translation task with written Dutch words, most of which had a German cognate. In the first part of the translation task, participants were shown 48 Du…
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The early learning of interlingual correspondence rules in receptive multilingualism
Aims and objectives: This article investigates whether learners are able to quickly discover simple, systematic graphemic correspondence rules between their L1 and an unknown but closely related language in a setting of receptive multilingualism. Design: Eighty L1 German speakers participated in a translation task with written Dutch words, most of which had a German cognate. In the first part of the translation task, participants were shown 48 Du…
The Influence of Standard and Substandard Dutch on Gender Assignment in Second Language German
This study investigated how standard and substandard varieties of first language (L1) Dutch affect grammatical gender assignments to nouns in second language (L2) German. While German distinguishes between masculine, feminine, and neuter gender, the masculine-feminine distinction has nearly disappeared in Standard Dutch. Many substandard Belgian Dutch varieties, however, still mark this distinction, making them more akin to German than Standard D…
The effect of bidialectalism on executive function
Aims and objectives: We investigate how varying usage patterns in speakers of closely related language varieties might impact executive function. More specifically, bidialectals with more balanced usage were predicted to show better inhibitory control than less balanced bidialectals. Design: Thirty-four adult bidialectals of Standard German and Swabian German performed two executive function tasks (flanker and Simon). Data and analysis: The parti…
When labeling L2 users as nativelike or not, consider classification errors
Researchers commonly estimate the prevalence of nativelikeness among second-language learners by assessing how many of them perform similarly to a sample of native speakers on one or several linguistic tasks. Even when the native (L1) samples and second-language (L2) samples are comparable in terms of age, socio-economic status, educational background and the like, these nativelikeness estimates are difficult to interpret theoretically. This is s…
What would disprove interdependence? Lessons learned from a study on biliteracy in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland
This article reports on an investigation into the bilingual development of literacy skills in Portuguese heritage language speakers in Switzerland in which we sought to put Cummins’ linguistic interdependence hypothesis to the test. Three predictions were derived from this hypothesis: (1) Literacy skill levels in one of the bilinguals’ languages can best be predicted from skill levels in both languages at an earlier point in time; (2) Crosslingui…
Towards simpler and more transparent quantitative research reports
The average quantitative research report in applied linguistics is needlessly complicated. Articles with over fifty hypothesis tests are no exception, but despite such an onslaught of numbers, the patterns in the data often remain opaque to readers well-versed in quantitative methods, not to mention to colleagues, students, and non-academics without years of experience in navigating results sections. I offer five suggestions for increasing both t…
Does multilingualism really protect against accelerated ageing? Critical comments on Amoruso et al. (2025)
In a much-publicised large-scale study, [Amoruso, Lucia, Hernan Hernandez, Hernando Santamaria-Garcia, Sebastian Moguilner, Agustina Legaz, Pavel Prado, Jhosmary Cuadros, et al. 2025. “Multilingualism Protects against Accelerated Aging in Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of 27 European Countries.” Nature Aging 5:2340–2354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-025-01000-2.] purport to have found evidence that multilingualism protects against ac…
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · German (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (3 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works) · Code (set theory) (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works) · Communication (2 works)