Vicky Chondrogianni
Professor of Bilingualism and Language Development

- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 4020
- Email: v.chondrogianni@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Researchgate
Address
- Street
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Room 2.07a, Dugald Stewart Building
- City
- 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AD
Availability
Happy to meet online or in-person. Please email me to arrange a time.
Background
I read Linguistics and Classics at the University of Athens before going on to receive an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, I held research and teaching positions at Bangor University (UK), Aalborg University (Denmark) and the University of Reading (UK). I have also carried out research visits at City University of New York (USA), where I currently am affiliated faculty at the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center.
Selected publications
Daskalaki, E., Blom, E., Chondrogianni, V., & Paradis, J. (2020). Effects of parental input quality on child heritage language acquisition. Journal of Child Language. First View. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000850
Chondrogianni V, & Schwartz R. (2020) Case and word order in Greek heritage children. Journal of Child Language. First View. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000849
Chondrogianni, V., & John, N. (2019). Tense and plural formation in Welsh-English bilingual children with and without language impairment. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 53(3), 495-514. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12363
Puric, D., Vuksanović, J., & Chondrogianni, V. (2017). Cognitive advantages of immersion education after 1 year: Effects of amount of exposure. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 296-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.02.011
Chondrogianni, V. Marinis, T., Edwards, S. & Blom, E. (2014). Production and on-line comprehension of definite articles and clitic pronouns by Greek sequential bilingual children and monolingual children with Specific Language Impairment. Applied Psycholinguistics. First view article: DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716414000101 .
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, 223-248.
Responsibilities & affiliations
School and Subject Area responsibilities
LEL PGR Director
Programme Director for the MSc in Developmental Linguistics
Programme Director for Bilingualism Matters
PPLS rep on College staff experience committee
External roles
Associate Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (John Benjamins)
Secretary for the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Child Language (Cambridge University Press ) and Second Language Research (SAGE journals).
Undergraduate teaching
2022-2023
Pre-honours
LEL1 A (Semester 1)
Honours
First Language acquisition (Semester 1 )
Second Language acquisition (Semester 2)
Postgraduate teaching
2022-2023
First Language acquisition (Semester 1)
Second Language acquisition (Semester 2)
Guided Research Seminar (Semester 2)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am happy to supervise PhD projects on the development of morphosyntax and the lexicon in bilingual children with typical development and with developmental language disorders. I am keen to explore the implementation of novel methods such as eye-tracking in this field. Please also see my list of publications for an idea about my research interests.
Current PhD students supervised
- Chiuchou Hao
- Yu-Hui Liao
- Diana Lopez lugo
- Mattia Zingaretti
- Jennifer O'Donovan
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Radina Binti Mohamad Deli
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Ziyana Cao (Principal supervisor: Katie Overy, Edinburgh College of Arts, Faculty of Music)
I am also currently supervising the following PhD projects:
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CIty University of New York (CUNY): Georgia Drakopoulou, Production and processing of ambiguity in ASD children. (PI: Prof. Richard G. Schwartz)
Past PhD students supervised
University of Edinburgh
Qingyuan Gardner (completed in 2020)
Kate Repnik (completed in 2020)
Katerina Pantoula (Completed in 2021)
Bangor University
Athanasia Papastergiou ( completed in 2020). Language and cognitive abilities of Welsh-English bilingual children attending different educational programmes in Wales. ESRC-funded PhD studentship in Bilingualism (co-supervision with Dr. Eirini Sanoudaki & Dr. Enlli Thomas, Bangor University).
Anne-Dorothee Roesch (completed in 2014). Comprehension and production of wh-questions in typically developing 2L1 and L2 French-German children with and without language impairment. Bangor University.
Research summary
first and second language acquisition, child bilingualism, psycholinguistics, developmental language disorders
Current 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.Project activity
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Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual morphosyntactic acquisition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/bpa.16.12cho
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Mind the gap: Psycholinguistic and individual factors affecting expressive and receptive vocabulary development in immersion education
In:
Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Age of acquisition modulates verb semantic effects on implicit causality: Evidence from Malay
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Poster (Published) -
Individual differences differentially influence language domains and learning mechanisms
In:
Journal of Child Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000923000028
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (E-pub ahead of print) -
A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek-English bilingual children - a nearest neighbour approach
In:
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, vol. 26, pp. 78 - 94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728922000335
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Majority language vocabulary and nonword repetition skills in children attending minority language immersion education
In:
Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 43, pp. 1073-1107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716422000285
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Path and rate of development in child heritage speakers: Evidence from Greek subject/object form and placement
In:
International Journal of Bilingualism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221111648
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
How similar are shared syntactic representations? Evidence from priming of passives in Greek-English bilinguals
In:
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672892200027X
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Developmental language disorder in sequential bilinguals: Characterising word properties in spontaneous speech
In:
Journal of Child Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000241
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Validation of a Greek sentence repetition task with typically developing monolingual and bilingual children
In:
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09853-z
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)