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Staff Profile of Dr Eirini Sanoudaki

Eirini Sanoudaki

Name:

Dr Eirini Sanoudaki

Position:

Teaching Associate

Email:

Location:

Room: 202b, 2nd Floor, New Arts

Phone:

01248 388639

Current teaching

Language and the Mind – Level 1
Current Issues in Bilingualism – Levels 3 & 4
Child Language Acquisition – Levels 3 & 4

Biography

I first joined Bangor University in 2008, as a post-doctoral researcher at the ESCR Centre for Research in Bilingualism and at the School of Psychology. After a second post-doctoral position at the University of Athens, I returned to Bangor to join the School of Linguistics and English Language in 2010. I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from UCL in 2007, with a thesis on the acquisition of syllable structure, with particular reference to consonant clusters. I have a degree in Greek Language and Literature from the University of Athens and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Reading.

Research interests

My research interests are primarily in first language acquisition and bilingual acquisition. I am particularly interested in performing theory evaluation on the basis of empirical data acquired by behavioural tasks as well as ERPs (Event-Related Potentials), thus bridging the gap between research in theoretical linguistics and experimental psycholinguistics. In addition to my interest in phonological acquisition, I have a lasting interest in the acquisition of pronominal reference (including bilingual acquisition), and my current research examines the interpretation of pronominal elements in children and adults with Down Syndrome. I am also interested in facets of bilingualism, such as transfer, code-switching and language processing in bilinguals, and I am currently involved in research on syntactic aspects of Welsh-English bilingualism.

Selected Publications

  • (to appear) Sanoudaki, E. & G. Thierry. Bigrammatism: when the bilingual mind juggles with two grammars. To appear in Enlli Môn Thomas and Ineke Mennen (eds.), Unravelling Bilingualism: A cross-disciplinary perspective. Multilingual Matters.
  • (2010) Towards a typology of word initial consonant clusters: evidence from the acquisition of Greek, Journal of Greek Linguistics, 10, 1-41.
  • (2009) Strength relations and first language acquisition. In Kuniya Nasukawa and Phillip Backley (eds.), Strength relations in phonology. 149-182. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • (2008) Word initial clusters in acquisition. In Theodoros Marinis, Angeliki Papangeli, and Vesna Stojanovik (eds.), Proceedings of the Child Language Seminar 2007 (30th Anniversary). 125-135.
  • (2008) Word initial heterosyllabicity in acquisition. In Anna Gavarró and Maria J. Freitas (eds.), Language Acquisition and Development. 381-385. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • (2006) Linking history to first language acquisition: the case of Greek consonant clusters, in UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 18: 383-408.
  • (2004) Transfer during bilingual first language acquisition: the case of Greek and English pronominal systems, in Proceedings of the 6th international conference of Greek linguistics, University of Crete, ISBN: 960-88268-0-2.
  • (2003) Greek 'strong'pronouns and the delay of principle B effect. In Reading working papers in Linguistics, 7: 103-124.

Selected conference presentations

  • (2011) with Spyridoula Varlokosta. The interpretation of pronouns, clitics and reflexives in Greek-speaking adults with Down Syndrome. Oral presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 1-3 April 2011, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • (2008) The acquisition of consonant clusters by Greek-speaking children.  Oral presentation at the Workshop: Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity, 31 July-2 August 2008, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich.
  • (2008) Word initial extrasyllabicity? Evidence from the acquisition of Greek. Oral presentation at the 16th Manchester Phonology Meeting, 22-24 May 2008, University of Manchester.
  • (2007) Word initial heterosyllabicity in acquisition. Poster presentationat the GALA conference, 6-8 September  2007, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
  • (2007) Word initial clusters in acquisition. Oral presentation at the Child Language Seminar, 18-20 July 2007, The University of Reading, UK.