Lab Directors
![]() Prof. Jason Rothman
j.rothman@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: First, Second and Third (or more) Language Acquisition in children and adults; Modelling of Previous Linguistic Influence and Cognitive Constraints on Multilingual Language Acquisition; Heritage Language Bilingualism; The Relationship Between Bilingualism and Changes to Cognitive Functions and Brain Structure Throughout the Lifespan. |
![]() Dr. Ian Cunnings
i.cunnings@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: Psycholinguistics, in particular sentence and discourse comprehension and morphological processing; Memory retrieval during language comprehension; First and second language acquisition; Multilingualism |
Researchers (Staff), University of Reading
![]() Prof. Theo Marinis
t.marinis@reading.ac.uk Areas of interest: Cross-linguistic first and second language acquisition; processing in adults, typically developing children, and children with language impairment; the interface between morpho-syntax; discourse and prosody in children with Specific Language Impairment and children with Autism; the effects of literacy on language and cognition across populations, including children with a migration/refugee background. |
![]() Dr. Christos Pliatsikas
c.pliatsikas@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: the effects of bi-/multilingualism on brain structure and function; behavioural and MRI techniques; the effects of experience of learning additional languages on brain structure and function; native-like achievement in morphological and syntactic processing by second language learner. |
![]() Prof. Doug Saddy
j.d.saddy@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: Typical and atypical language processing and language acquisition, Cognitive Neurodynamics and Neuroscience, Analysis and Computational Modelling of brain sinals. |
![]() Prof. Ludovica Serratrice
l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: Language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts; Discourse-pragmatics in connection to the use and acquisition of reference; Processing of complex syntactic constructions in school-age children; Metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children; Sentence-level processing in adult bilinguals; English, Italian, Spanish |