RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research focuses on the development of early vocabulary and grammar in Mongolian-speaking children. In my doctoral research project, I am working on an “acquisition sketch” — an overview of Mongolian language development from ages 18 to 48 months — following the Sketch Acquisition Manual (Defina et al., 2023). I am also developing a Mongolian adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI).

EDUCATION

November 2023-Present    
Doctoral Student in Psycholinguistics, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
•    Dissertation: Early Language Development in Mongolian-speaking Children

2019-2023    
Master of Science in Cognitive Science, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany     
•    Thesis: Language Development in Mongolian Preschool Children

2014-2016    
Master of Arts in International Economic Relations, National University of Mongolia                            

2011-2013    
Master of Arts in Linguistics, National University of Mongolia          

2007-2011    
Bachelor of Arts in Russian Studies, National University of Mongolia

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & COURSES

17-21 June, 2024    
MEDAL Summer School in Experimental Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands    

16-18 April, 2024    
Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

19-23 June, 2023    
MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics, University of Tartu, Estonia

01-02 October, 2019    
Computational Cognition Workshop, University of Osnabrück, Germany

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

Byambasuren D., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, September). Acquisition of negation in Mongolian using the Sketch Acquisition Approach. The Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning Workshop (X-PPL 2024), University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

Byambasuren D., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, July). Acquisition of converbs in Mongolian-speaking rural and urban children. XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL-2024) Prague, Czech Republic.

Byambasuren D., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, July). Early vocabulary development in Mongolian-speaking children using the Sketch Acquisition Approach. XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024), Prague, Czech Republic. 

Byambasuren D., & Allen, S.E.M. (2024, May). Status report on adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Mongolian. 8th European Network Meeting on Communicative Development Inventories (EUNM-CDI  2024), Dubrovnik, Croatia. 

Byambasuren D., & Allen, S.E.M. (2023, October). Measuring mean length of utterance and lexical diversity among Mongolian-speaking rural and urban children. Many Paths to Language, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.