June 1975 MA (Doctoraalexamen) in French Language and Literature
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(now Radboud Universiteit).
Highest Honours.
Major: Modern French Literature. Title MA dissertation ‘La déchéance de l'humain
dans la trilogie romanesque de Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Meurt, l’Innommable’
Minors: Indo-European Linguistics
General Linguistics
October 1975 MA (Doctoraalexamen) General Linguistics
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Highest Honours
Major: Applied Linguistics (Acquisition of French as a second language)
Title MA thesis Problèmes d’acquisition lexicale pour néerlandophones apprenant le français
(Problems in word-acquisition for Dutch speakers learning French)
Minors: Generative Phonology
Mathematical Psychology
June 1981 Doctorate in Linguistics
University of Nijmegen.
Highest Honours
Title thesis: Analogie et lexique: Le problème de l’opacité en phonologie générative
(Analogy and the Lexicon: the Opacity Problem in Generative Phonology)
Thesis Director Bernard Bichakjian