Rosemarie Tracy

Rosemarie Tracy (* 1949 ) is a German English specialist and linguist .

Life

Tracy studied English, Romance studies and psychology in Mannheim, Göttingen and in the USA from 1968 to 1980. After completing her studies, she initially worked as a research assistant at the English seminar at the Georg-August University in Göttingen, then as a lecturer in linguistics and psycholinguistics at the SRH School of Speech Therapy in Heidelberg. In 1986 she did her doctorate and worked as a university assistant at the English seminar at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . After her habilitation in 1995, she accepted a position at the University of Mannheim , where she holds the chair for English linguistics to this day.

Research priorities

• Linguistic theory
• Psycholinguistics
• Language and cognition
• Learnability
• Bilingualism
• First language acquisition (mono- and bilingual )
• Speech contact phenomena ( code switching )

Publications (selection)

• How children learn languages: and how we can help them. 2nd Edition. Francke, Tübingen 2008.
• Multitasking: multilingualism beyond the "dispute". In: Ingrid Gogolin, Ursula Neumann (Hrsg.): Streitfall bilingualism - The Bilingualism Controversy. VS-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 163–196.
• with H. Hopp, D. Thoma: Language development skills of educational professionals. A linguistic model. In: ZfE, Journal for Educational Science. 13 (4), Springer, Berlin 2010, pp. 609-629.
• with B. Voet Cornelli and P. Schulz: Language development diagnostics in multilingualism. A challenge for pediatric practice. In: Monthly Pediatrics. 161, Springer, Berlin 2013, pp. 911–917.
• with M. Krifka, J. Błaszczak, A. Leßmöllmann, A. Opinion, B. Stiebels and H. Truckenbrodt (eds.): The multilingual classroom. About the mother tongues of our students. Springer, Berlin 2014.

Web links

• Rosemarie Tracy on the website of the University of Mannheim
• Portrait: Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Tracy (FORUM Magazin 2/2015)