Rosemarie Tracy
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Rosemarie Tracy is a German linguist specializing in language acquisition. She is currently senior professor of English linguistics at the University of Mannheim.[1]
Tracy studied English, French and Portuguese at the universities of Mannheim and Göttingen, as well as Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctorate at the University of Mannheim in 1991 for a thesis on child first language acquisition based on longitudinal studies (published as Tracy 1991).[2]
Subsequently, she taught and researched at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen, taking a habilitation for her work on bilingual child language acquisition. She was appointed professor of English linguistics at Mannheim in 1995. After her retirement in 2019, she was appointed Senior Professor by the University of Mannheim.[3][4]
Honors
A special issue of Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft in her honor was published in 2017.[5]
In 2022 she was awarded the Wilhelm von Humboldt Prize for lifetime achievement by the German Linguistics Society (DGfS).[6][7]
