Moira Van Puyvelde

Moira’s interest in linguistics has been a constant throughout her childhood and adult life. She obtained a Master’s Degree in Multilingual Communication (Dutch, English, Spanish) at Ghent University in 2021. During her studies she also spent a semester abroad at the Universitat de València. She joined the VUB as a PhD student in 2022 under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Laura Rosseel and Prof. Dr. Eline Zenner (KU Leuven).  

Moira’s research focuses on the acquisition of sociolinguistic meaning within the framework of exemplar theory. Through various experiments, she investigates the role of memory, the types of associations formed and the differences between adults and children in these acquisition processes. As such, her PhD project encompasses her main research interests in the fields of developmental sociolinguistics, variationist linguistics and language acquisition.