Íris Edda Nowenstein

Assistant professor at the University of Iceland and Speech-Language Pathologist at the University Hospital of Iceland.

Nowenstein’s primary research interests are language acquisition and language loss. She is interested in how children learn languages and how adults sometimes lose their language and investigate the way in which these mechanisms shape language variation and change, particularly in the context of Icelandic case marking. Her current focus is on the memory-language interface in acquisition and aging, with the aim of ultimately contributing to work on developmental language disorders and language difficulties in dementia. Nowenstein is also involved in various efforts to ensure that people in smaller language communities have access to digital health resources which are based on language technology, e.g. automatic speech and language analysis for the diagnosis and monitoring of neurodegenerative diseases.