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 |
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Anna Wolleb
a.wolleb@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: Bilingual language development; first, second and third language acquisition; the relationship between language and cognition; bilingualism and literacy; bilingualism and language learning; language disorders. |
Alessandra Valentini
a.valentini@reading.ac.uk Areas of Interest: Language development in monolingual and bilingual learners, more specifically: vocabulary acquisition in school-aged children, listening and reading comprehension, the relationship between language and cognition, and the relationship between language and literacy. |
Affiliated Research members
Dr. Fatih Bayram
fthbyrm@gmail.com Urdu University (Turkey) Areas of interest: Bilingualism; Multilingualism; Heritage speaker bilingualism; First language acquisition; Child and adult L2 acquisition; Language development and processing; Morphosyntax; Syntax-Discourse/Pragmatics. 
Prof. Marit Westergaard
marit.westergaard@uit.no Uit, The Arctic University of Norway (Norway) Areas of Interest: First, second/third & bilingual language acquisition, heritage language/language attrition, syntactic variation, diachronic change,comparative syntax, word order, nominal structure (grammatical gender, definiteness, possessives), English, Norwegian, Russian, German. 
Dr. Jorge González Alonso
jorge.gonzalez.alonso@uit.no Uit, The Arctic University of Norway (Norway) Areas of Interest: (Adult) second and third language acquisition, non-native morphological and lexical processing, bilingualism, morphology, compound words, (acquisition, representation and processing of) gender, English, Spanish, Norwegian, Basque. |
Dr. Mike Iverson
mikeiver@iu.edu Indiana University (USA) Area of Interests: Outcomes of bilingualism: adult second language acquisition, third language acquisition, heritage language, and first language attrition; Acquisition and development of morphosyntax in non-native languages; Spanish and Portuguese; Statistical methods in experimental linguistic research 
Prof. Terje Lohndal
terje.lohndal@ntnu.no Norwegian University of Science and Technology Areas of Interest: syntax, semantics, morphology, interfaces, variation, heritage languages/language attrition, first, second and bilingual language acquisition, English, Norwegian |