Staff Profile of Dr Vicky Chondrogianni

Name:

Vicky Chondrogianni

Position:

Lecturer in Bilingualism

Email:

v.chondrogianni@bangor.ac.uk

Location:

Rm. 333 New Arts, School of Linguisitcs

Phone:

+44 (0)1248 382267

Background

I joined Bangor University as a Lecturer in Bilingualism in September 2011. Before that I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading and at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University (Denmark) on projects investigating cross-linguistic aspects of production and on-line comprehension of morphology and syntax in sequential bilingual children and children with language impairment. As a post-doctoral researcher, as well as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Reading I taught courses on language acquisition, language impairment and bilingualism.

I read Greek Philology (major in Linguistics) at the University of Athens, and I later obtained a Master’s degree in Translation Studies (English-German) from the University of Athens and the Ionian University (Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting). After that, I moved to the UK and the University of Cambridge for an MPhil and later a PhD in English and Applied Linguistics, which I obtained in 2008.

Research interests

My research focuses on cross-linguistic aspects of acquisition and processing in typically-developing monolingual and bilingual children and in children with language impairment. My research addresses questions such as the following: What is the relationship between production and (on-line) comprehension/processing in impaired and unimpaired monolingual and bilingual children? How is this relationship affected by cross-linguistic differences in the target grammatical system? How can the comparison between different modalities inform us about the underlying nature of development and processing? I am also interested in the interplay between cognitive abilities, such as executive functions, and language abilities in typically-developing and language impaired children.

If you are interested in pursuing a PhD on these or similar topics, please e-mail me.

For more details, please visit my Academia entry (http://bangor.academia.edu/VasilikiChondrogianni)

Research projects

Language and cognitive abilities in Polish-English sequential bilingual children (University of Reading pump priming grant – Principal Investigator)
Cross-linguistic study of the production and processing of grammatical morphemes in L2 children compared to children with Specific Language Impairment (Dutch Research Foundation/NWO – named post-doctoral researcher. PI: Dr Theo Marinis)
Real-time processing of syntactic information in children with English as a Second Language & children with Specific Language Impairment (Research associate. PI: Dr Theo Marinis)
The acquisition of determiners and clitic pronouns by child and adult L2 learners of Modern Greek (University of Cambridge –ESRC PhD studentship, funded also by the Cambridge European Trust, Trinity Hall bursaries, and the Wingate foundation)

Selected publications

Chondrogianni, V. & Marinis, T. (in press). Production and processing asymmetries of tense morphemes by English sequential bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.

De Lopez, K. Sundahl Olsen, L. & Chondrogianni, V. (under review). Comprehension and production of relative clauses in Danish typically developing children and children with SLI. Journal of Child Language

Chondrogianni, V. & Marinis, T. (2011). Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, morphology and complex syntax in successive bilingual children. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 1, 3, 223-248.

Marinis, T. & Chondrogianni, V. (2011). Comprehension of pronouns and reflexives by English-speaking bilingual children. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24. 2, 202-212.

Chondrogianni, V, Marinis, T, & S. Edwards (2010). On-line processing of articles and pronouns by Greek children with SLI. Proceedings of the 34th Boston University Conference on Language Development.

Marinis, T. & Chondrogianni, V. (2010). Production of tense marking in successive bilingual children: when do they converge with their monolingual peers?, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 1, 19-28.

Chondrogianni, V. (2008). The Acquisition of the D-domain in Child L2 Greek.: Effects of age and construction. In Haznedar, B. and Slabakova, R. (eds.) Child L2 Acquisition: A Generative Perspective, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 97-145.

Chondrogianni, V. (2007). Child L2 Acquisition of the D-domain in Modern Greek. In Belletti, A. et al. (eds) Language Acquisition and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publications, pp. 136-141.

Chondrogianni, V. (2005) Acquiring clitics and determiners in child L2 Greek. In Agathopoulou E. et al. (eds), Proceedings of the 17th International Symposium in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, 14-17 April 2005, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 356-366.

Teaching

At Bangor, I offer undergraduate and postgraduate course in first and second language acquisition, language pathology and language processing.

QXL1114 – Language development
QXL33/4402 – Language acquisition
QXL33/4407 – Language processing
QXL33/4416 – Language pathology