Rate My Professor Arild Hestvik

Hestvik directs the Experimental Psycholinguistics Lab at the University of Delaware, where his research examines how the brain computes linguistic representations in real time, how it understands grammar, and how language processing mechanisms develop in children, including those with language impairments. His work utilizes behavioral measures such as reaction times and electrophysiological techniques including EEG and event-related brain potentials. Notable publications include the edited book 'Phonological Representations and Mismatch Negativity Asymmetries' (Frontiers Media SA, 2022), 'Auditory Processing Disorder Targets Phonetics, Not Phonology' (BUCLD 47 Proceedings, 2023), 'Developmental Language Disorder as Syntactic Prediction Impairment' (Frontiers in Human Communication, 2022), 'English Vowel Discrimination and Perceptual Assimilation by Japanese Listeners' (Language and Speech, 2023), and 'Neurobiological evidence for voicing underspecification in English' (Brain and Language, 2016). Hestvik has served on the University of Delaware Neuroscience Committee (2019-2022), contributed editorially to Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, and held fellowships such as ITT International Fellow (1984-1986) and visiting researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University (2023).