As many students do, Judith Rispens (1972) started studying Dutch language and literature because of her love for books. However, soon she got interested in linguistics and cognition, and she realized that one could always read books for fun. She specialized in neurolinguistics and after a PhD at the University of Groningen on the relation between morphology and phonology in children with dyslexia, she is now appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Her theme is learnability of languages and language impairment.