Research Interests
My research focuses on the cognitive mechanisms that support language learning in adults. Specifically, I am interested in the processes that take place during learning, and how they are shaped by individual differences.
In my current project, I am investigating how different sources of difficulty in language learning (both individual differences and properties of the input) affect the ways in which we process and encode new language forms during learning.
I have also worked on related aspects of language learning and processing: prediction during language processing, error-based learning, and implicit learning (learning without awareness).
Postgraduate Project Opportunities
I am willing to supervise a PhD
Publications
2023
- PublishedEffects of Form-Focused Practice and Feedback: A Multisite Replication Study of Yang and Lyster (2010)
Mifka-Profozic, N., Behney, J., Gass, S. M., Macis, M., Chiuchiù, G. & Bovolenta, G., 12 Dec 2023, In: Language Learning. 73, 4, p. 1164-1210
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedImplicit learning in production: Productive generalization of new form-meaning connections in the absence of awareness.
Bovolenta, G. & Williams, J. N., Sept 2023, In: Language Learning. 73, 3, p. 723-758
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedStructural prediction during language comprehension revealed by electrophysiology: Evidence from Italian auxiliaries.
Bovolenta, G. & Husband, E. M., Jan 2023, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 49, 1, p. 116-129
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - E-pub ahead of printThe effect of verb surprisal on the acquisition of second language syntactic structures in adults: An artificial language learning study
Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., 21 Dec 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Applied Psycholinguistics. p. 1-28 28 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2022
- PublishedPrediction and error-based learning in L2 processing and acquisition
Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., Dec 2022, In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition. 44, 5, p. 1384-1409 26 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2021
- PublishedExpectation Violation Leads to Generalization: The Effect of Prediction Error on the Acquisition of New Syntactic Structures
Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., 2021, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyVolume. Vol. 43. p. 875-881
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review - PublishedExpectation violation enhances the development of new abstract syntactic representations: evidence from an artificial language learning study
Bovolenta, G. & Marsden, E., Dec 2021, In: Language Development Research. 1, 1, p. 193-243
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2020
- PublishedPrediction failure blocks the use of local semantic context
Husband, E. M. & Bovolenta, G., Apr 2020, In: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 35, 3, p. 273-291 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review