Vicky Chondrogianni
Senior Lecturer

- University of Edinburgh
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- Linguistics and English Language
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
Online appointments only. Please email me to arrange a time. (N.B. On research leave in Semester 2 of 2020-21)
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 responsibilities
Programme Director for the MSc in Developmental Linguistics
Programme Director for Bilingualism Matters
PPLS Research Ethics Committee Convenor
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
On research leave in Semester 2 of 2020-21
Pre-honours
LEL1 A (Semester 1)
Honours
First Language acquisition (Semester 1 )
Postgraduate teaching
On research leave in Semester 2 of 2020-21
First Language acquisition (Semester 1)
Guided research seminar on “Disentangling bilingualism and language impairment” (Semester 1)
Introduction to Language research (Semester 1)
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
- Katerina Pantoula
- Qingyuan Gardner
- Yu-Hui Liao
- Diana Lopez lugo
- Kate Repnik
- Mattia Zingaretti
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)
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Bangor University, UK: Athanasia Papastergiou. 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).
Past PhD students supervised
Anne-Dorothee Roesch (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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On-line processing of grammatical aspect marker by L2 Chinese learners
In:
Second Language Research
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Comprehension of welcher-questions in German-speaking children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
In:
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Linking disambiguation and retention in a developmental eye-tracking study with monolingual and multilingual children
In:
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) to Scottish Gaelic
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Cue reliability, salience and early comprehension of agreement: Evidence from Greek
In:
Journal of Child Language
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Effects of parental input quality on child heritage language acquisition
(28 pages)
In:
Journal of Child Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000850
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Case and word order in Greek heritage children
In:
Journal of Child Language
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000849
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Multilingual Development
(16 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220611
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Input effects across domains: The case of Greek subjects in child heritage language
In:
Second Language Research, vol. 35, pp. 421-445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658318787231
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)