Maryam Fatemi
Main areas of work and research
- Linguistic relativity
- Thinking for speaking hypothesis
- First and second language acquisition
- Language and cognition
- Multilingualism (cognitive advantages)
Since August 2024
Labor Manager, Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Technical University of Dortmund
Since April 2020 – Present Time
PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Barbara Mertins and research assistant at psycholinguistics laboratories, Technical University of Dortmund
2009 – 2012
Tarbiat Modares University, Faculty of Humanities, MA program in general Linguistics
2004 – 2008
Imam Reza University, BA program in English translation
2024
Management & Leadership Certificate, Graduate Center, TU Dortmund University
- Successfully completed an 80 work unit program as part of the interdisciplinary qualification program.
Winter Semester 2025/2026
Business English – B2 Level for the Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dortmund
English for Architecture and Civil Engineering – C1 Level, TU Dortmund
Summer Semester 2024
Introduction to Psycholinguistics
Introduction to Linguistic Relativity
Winter Semester 2023/24
Language Specific Patterns: The Case of Noun-Phrases
Methods for diagnosing and supporting structural difficulties in a multilingual context: The case of Grammatical Gender
Language, Society, and Gender
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Summer Semester 2023
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Language, Society, and Gender
Winter Semester 2022/23
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Language, Society, and Gender
Summer Semester 2022
Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Winter Semester 2021/22
Cognitive Linguistics: an Introduction
Summer Semester 2021
Introduction to Linguistic Relativity
Winter Semester 2020/21
Peaboby Picture Vocabulary Test: a standardized assessment designed to measure receptive vocabulary, which refers to a person's ability to understand spoken words.
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Fatemi, M., Mertins, B. & Schroeder, V.: The influence of grammatical gender on cognition: the case of German and Farsi. In: Open Linguistics 1 (11), 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2025-0071
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Fatemi, S. Maryam (2024). The influence of grammatical gender on the conceptualization of the world: A systematic literature review. In Corinna Bath, Judith Conrads, Sigrid Nieberle & Ralph Poole (eds.), Gender – Journal for Gender, Culture and Society, vol. 16, no. 3-2024: 15 Years of GENDER – A Review of the Field (pp. 168–186). Leverkusen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
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Fatemi, Maryam (2023). Synchronic Overview of Grammatical Gender Marking in Indo-European Languages. In Barbara Mertins & Renate Delucchi Danhier (eds.), Diversity in Cognition (pp. 13–60). Berlin: Peter Lang
2024 LinPin Meet-Up for Linguistics PhD Students in NRW, September 24th, RWTH Aachen University, Method Pitch Presentation titled: Exploring Grammatical Gender Influence Using the Visual World Paradigm
2024 Biennial of Czech Linguistics: New Empirically Based Perspectives on Multilingualism, September 18th,Charles University, Presentation title: Language-Specific Patterns in a Multilingual Context: the Case of Grammatical Gender
2024 Mehrsprachigkeitssymposium, May 13th, TU Dortmund, Presentation title: Women are Mice, Akin to Rabbits, Men are Lions, Akin to Swords: How Language Shapes Reality!
2024 Sprachliche Variation und Gender Studies. Potenziale – Studien – Forschungsdesiderata, Feburary 9th, University of Augsburg, Presentation title: Gender in Linguistic Relativity: The Case of German and Farsi
2023 LinPin Meet-Up for Linguistics PhD Students in NRW, September 26th, Essen, University of Essen-Duisburg , Presentation title: Gender in Linguistic Relativity: The Case of German and Farsi
2023 Psycholinguistics in Flanders, May 29th–31st, Ghent, Belgium, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Presentation title: Gender in Linguistics
2022 Grenzen, Geschlecht, Gender. October 6th. TU Dortmund, Presentation title: Synchronic Overview of Grammatical Gender Marking in Indo-European Languages