PhD Thesis

If you are interested in conducting a PhD as part of this team, have a look at some of the publications to understand the nature of the research and then get in touch.

I have supervised so far the following PhD students:

  • 2014-2017  Evelyn Egger: ‘Language, cognition & literacy development in bilingual children’.
  • 2013-2017  Abhijeet Patra: ‘Bilingualism and Aphasia’
  • 2014-2017  Julia Hofweber: ‘Code switching and Executive Functions’.
  • 2012-2016  Igigenia Dosi: ‘Aspect in bilingual children: effects of language, cognitive, and environmental factors’
  • 2011-2016  Shamala Sundaray: ‘Language comprehension in healthy ageing bilinguals and Alzheimer’s patients.’
  • 2010-2012  Nailah A l-Sulaihim: ‘Phonological awareness in bilingual Kuwait Arabic children.’
  • 2007-2010  Duygu Ozge: ‘Sentence processing in Turkish children’.
  • 2006-2011  Thomas Doukas: ‘The acquisition of verb morphology in Greek’ (part-time).
  • 2006-2010  Christos Pliatsikas: ‘Syntactic processing in adult bilinguals’.
  • 2006-2010  Angeliki Papangeli: ‘Language development and processing in English-Greek bilingual children’.

I have examined the following PhD students:

  • 2018  Kelly Rombough: ‘The verb BE and the linguistic constraints on contraction in children with specific language impairment’, Macquarie University;
  • 2018 Ana Paula da Silva Passos Jakubów: ‘Language acquisition based on variable input: the case of number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese’, Pontificia Universidade Catolica Do Rio De Janeiro:
  • 2017 Iris Duinmeijer: ‘Persistent grammatical difficulties in Specific Language Impairment Deficits in knowledge or in knowledge implementation?’, University of Amsterdam;
  • 2017 Manuela Julien: ‘The role of dummy auxiliaries in the acquisition of finiteness in Dutch: A comparison between various groups of L1 and L2 learners’, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen;
  • 2017 Yair Haendler: ‘Effects of Embedded Pronouns on Relative Clause Processing: Cross-linguistic Evidence from Children and Adults’, University of Potsdam;
  • 2016 Aafke Buyl: ‘Mechanisms and stages in the development of receptive and productive grammar processing in a Second Language’, Vrije Universiteit Brussel;
  • 2015 Maria Papakonstantinou: ‘Temporal connectives in child language: a study of Greek’, University of Thessaloniki;
  • 2015 Loay Mobarak-Balkhair: ‘Form and morphology in second language morphological processing: Evidence from priming experiments on English verb morphology’, University of Essex;
  • 2014 Maria Martzoukou: ‘Sentence Processing: the syntax prosody interface’, University of Thessaloniki;
  • 2013 Lia Efstathiadi: ‘The role of FL aptitude and the executive functions of working memory and inhibition in FL vocabulary acquisition by young Greek learners of English’, University of Thessaloniki;
  • 2013 Lena Papadopoulou: ‘The acquisition of wh-questions by Cypriot Greek children’, University of Essex;
  • 2013 John-Sebastian Schutter: ‘An investigation into near-nativeness at the syntax-lexicon interface: evidence from Dutch learners of English’, University of Edinburgh;
  • 2013 Theoni Neokleous: ‘The L1 Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Cypriot Greek’, University of Cambridge;
  • 2012 Masoomeh Yeganehjoo: ‘Idiom representation, idiom compositionality, and cross-linguistic similarities in production of English idiomatic expressions by proficient Iranian EFL learners’, UPM, Malaysia;
  • 2012 Maureen Scheidnes: ‘The acquisition of French as a Second Language in children: typical vs. atypical development’, Université François-Rabelais, Tour;
  • 2011 Kamila Polišenská: ‘The influence of linguistic structure on memory span: repetition tasks as a measure of language ability’, City University London;
  • 2011 Carla Contemori: ‘The comprehension and production of relative clauses in Italian across-populations and in different modalities’, University of Siena;
  • 2011 Andrea Juvyent: ‘Individual differences in Specific Language Impairment: profiles of preschoolers exposed to Italian’, University of Padua;
  • 2011 Jonathan Haenen: ‘The interactions between decoding and comprehension in reading processes and the implications for reading comprehension disorders’, Department of Clinical Language Science, University of Reading;
  • 2010 SalehShaalan: ‘Investigating grammatical complexity in Gulf-Arabic speaking children with SLI’, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London;
  • 2009 Antje Orgassa: ‘Specific language impairment in a bilingual context, Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication’, University of Amsterdam;
  • 2009 Nikolitsa Stathopoulou: ‘The linguistics profile of Greek individuals with Down Syndrome: evidence from syntactic and morphological phenomena’, Department of Language & Linguistics, University of Essex;
  • 2009 Blanca Schaefer: ‘The Development of Phonological Awareness in German-speaking Preschool Children’, Department of Human Communication Science, University of Sheffield;
  • 2009 Ranya Morsi: ‘Specific Language Impairment in Egyptian Arabic: A preliminary investigation’, Department of Clinical Language Science, University of Reading;
  • 2009 Anna Androulaki: ‘Clitics and Gaps in Greek’, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Reading;
  • 2008 Nafsika Smith: ‘Morphosyntactic skills and phonological short-term memory in Greek preschool children with Specific Language Impairment’, Department of Clinical Language Science, University of Reading;
  • 2007 Evi Kyritsi: ‘Phonological awareness in Greek deaf children’, Department of Clinical Language Science, University of Reading.