Profile
Abstract
I am currently a lecturer at the British Department of Leipzig University. In my research and teaching, I am primarily interested in bilingual first language acquisition and language contact phenomena from a usage-based perspective. I specifically focus on lexically specific patterns and their role in growing syntactic productivity as well as on individual differences in linguistic knowledge.
Professional career
- since 10/2023
- 10/2022 - 08/2023
Temporary chair of English linguisticsDepartment of English and American StudiesChair of English Philology and LinguisticsFAU Erlangen-Nürnberg - 04/2013 - 09/2023
Lecturer English linguisticsLeipzig University - 02/2017 - 12/2020
Postdoc English linguisticsLeipzig University
Education
- 05/2023
Habilitation (Venia Lengendi), Thesis: It’s very little and sehr riesig: A usage-based approach to child bilingual code-mixing. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, English Linguistics (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ewa Dąbrowska, Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Piske) - 07/2013
Ph.D. English linguisticsLeipzig University - 01/2008 - 06/2012
Ph.D. student Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Comparative and Developmental Psychology) and Leipzig University (British Department)
- Constructional patterns in child bilingual code-mixing: A usage-based corpus approachQuick, AntjeDuration: 04/2023 – 03/2026Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft
- Language Contact Phenomena in Multilingual First Language AcquisitionQuick, AntjeDuration: 04/2022 – 03/2025Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft
- Quick, A.; Backus, A.; Lieven, E.Entrenchment effects in code-mixing: individual differences in German-English bilingual childrenCognitive Linguistics. 2021.
- Quick, A.; Lieven, E.; Backus, A.; Tomasello, M.Constructively combining languages The use of code-mixing in German-English bilingual child language acquisitionLinguistic Approaches To Bilingualism. 2018. 8 (3). pp. 393–409.
- Gaskins, D.; Quick, A.; Verschik, A.; Backus, A.Usage-based approaches to child code-switching: State of the art and ways forwardCognitive Development. 2022.
- Quick, A.; Gaskins, D.; Frick, M.Priming of Frames and Slots in Bilingual Children’s Code-Mixing: A Usage-Based ApproachFrontiers in psychology. 2021.
Language Acquisition
Multilingualism and Bilingualism
Language Contact
Language Contact Phenomena
Language and Migration
Cognitive Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Developmental Disorders
Empirical Methods
Synchronic Linguistics: Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics
Phonetics and Phonology
Written Academic Discourse