{"id":355,"date":"2018-09-12T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T10:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/psylinglab\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:01:02","slug":"multilingualism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/psylinglab\/ourresearch\/multilingualism\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi-\/Multilingualism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Our research in bi-\/multilingualism investigates the similarities and differences between monolingual and bilingual language processing, especially\u00a0Sentence Processing<\/a>, and the factors that influence successful additional non-native language learning. Our work in this regards combines behavioural techniques including reaction time experiments and eye-tracking, along with neuroscientific methods such as EEG\/ERG and MRI.<\/p>\n

In close links to our work in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language<\/a>, we also examine the interaction between language and cognition, and how multilingualism and additional language learning affects brain structure and function. More broadly, our work in bi-\/multilingualism is also closely linked to the university’s Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism<\/a>, a multidisciplinary research institute into literacy development and multilingualism.<\/p>\n

Representative Publications
\n<\/strong>Cunnings, I. (2025). Group level and individual differences in second language sentence processing<\/a>. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. <\/i>Available online.<\/p>\n

Alaskar, S. and Cunnings, I. (2025).\u00a0Agreement and reflexives in non-native sentence processing.<\/a>\u00a0Bilingualism: Language and Cognition<\/em>, 28, 897-910.
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De Cat, C.<\/span>,\u00a0Gusnanto, A.<\/span>,\u00a0Ka\u0161celan, D.<\/span>,\u00a0Pr\u00e9vost, P.<\/span>,\u00a0Serratrice, L.<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Tuller, L.<\/span> &\u00a0Unsworth, S.<\/span><\/span> (2025). How detailed do measures of bilingual language experience need to be? A cost-benefit analysis using the Q-BEx questionnaire.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.<\/em> Available online.<\/p>\n

Pliatsikas, C., Pontikas, G. & Cunnings, I. (2025). Applying advanced quantitative methods in bi-\/multilingualism.<\/a> Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism<\/em>, 15<\/em>, 425-428.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. & Cunnings, I. (2024).\u00a0Subject-verb dependency formation and semantic interference in native and non-native language comprehension<\/a>.\u00a0Applied Psycholinguistics<\/em>, 45, 81-109.<\/p>\n

Wesierska, M. Serratrice, L., Cieplinska, V. & Messenger, K. (2024). Investigating crosslinguistic representations in Polish\u2013English bilingual children: Evidence from structural priming<\/a>. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition<\/i>. First View.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. & Fujita, H. (2023). Similarity-based interference and relative clauses in second language processing.<\/a> Second Language Research, 39,<\/em> 539-563.<\/p>\n

Valentini, A. and Serratrice, L. (2023). Longitudinal predictors of listening comprehension in bilingual primary school-aged children.<\/a> Language Learning, 73,<\/em> 5-46.<\/p>\n

Alrwaita, N., Houston-Price, C. and Pliatsikas, C. (2022). The effects of using two varieties of one language on cognition: evidence from bidialectalism and diglossia.<\/a> Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. <\/em>OnlineFirst.<\/p>\n

Cheng, Y. Cunnings, I., Miller, D. and Rothman, J. (2022). Double-number marking matters for both L1 and L2 processing of nonlocal agreement similarly: an ERP investigation.<\/a> Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 44,<\/em> 1309-1329.<\/p>\n

Cheng, Y., Rothman, J. & Cunnings, I. (2022). Determiner-number specification and non-local agreement computation in L1 and L2 processing.<\/a> Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 51,\u00a0<\/em>847-863.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. (2022). \u2018Working memory and L2 sentence processing\u2019<\/a> in Schwieter, J. & Wen, Z. (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language<\/em>, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 593-612.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. & Cunnings, I. (2022). Interference and filler-gap dependency formation in native and non-native language comprehension.<\/a> Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 48<\/em>, 702-716.<\/p>\n

Ka\u0161\u0107elan, D., Pr\u00e9vost, P., Serratrice, L., Tuller, L., Unsworth, S. and De Cat, C. (2022). A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: do they document the same constructs?<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 25,<\/em> 29-41.<\/p>\n

Cheng, Y., Rothman, J. and Cunnings, I. (2021). Parsing preferences and individual differences in nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from eye movements.<\/a>\u00a0Applied Psycholinguistics<\/em>,\u00a042<\/em>, 129-151.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. & Fujita, A. (2021). Quantifying individual differences in native and non-native sentence processing.<\/a> Applied Psycholinguistics, 42<\/em>, 579-599.<\/p>\n

DeLuca, V.<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Rothman, J.<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0Bialystok, E.<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0Pliatsikas, C.<\/span><\/span> (2020).\u00a0Duration and extent of bilingual experience modulate neurocognitive outcomes.<\/em><\/a> NeuroImage<\/em>, 204<\/em>, 116222<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. & Cunnings, I.<\/strong> (2021). Reanalysis processes in non-native sentence comprehension.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition<\/em>, 24<\/em>, 628-641.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. and Cunnings, I. (2021). Reanalysis and lingering misinterpretation of linguistic dependencies in native and non-native sentence comprehension.<\/a> Journal of Memory and Language, 115<\/em>, 104154.<\/p>\n

Fujita, H. and Cunnings, I. (2021). Lingering misinterpretation in native and nonnative sentence processing: Evidence from structural priming.<\/a>\u00a0Applied Psycholinguistics, 42,\u00a0<\/em>475-504.<\/p>\n

Pliatsikas, C. (2020). Understanding structural plasticity in the bilingual brain: The Dynamic Restructuring Model.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23<\/em>,\u00a0459-471.<\/p>\n

Serratrice, L. and De Cat, C. (2020). Individual differences in the production of referential expressions: The effect of language proficiency, language exposure and executive function in bilingual and monolingual children.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23<\/em>, 371-386.<\/p>\n

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J., Bialystok, E. and Pliatsikas, C. (2019). Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function.<\/a> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116<\/em>,\u00a07565-7574.<\/p>\n

De Cat, C., Gusnanto, A. and Serratrice, L. (2018).\u00a0Identifying a threshold for the executive function advantage in bilingual children.<\/a> Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 40<\/em>, 119-151.<\/p>\n

DeLuca, V., Rothman, J. and Pliatsikas, C. (2019) Linguistic immersion and structural effects on the bilingual brain: a longitudinal study.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22<\/em>,\u00a01160-1175.<\/p>\n

Denhovska, N., Serratrice, L. and Payne, J. (2018). Frequency and working memory effects in incidental learning of a complex agreement pattern.<\/a> Lingua, 207<\/em>, 49-70.<\/p>\n

Herve, C. and Serratrice, L. (2018). The development of determiners in the context of French-English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence.<\/a> Journal of Child Language, 45<\/em>, 767-787.<\/p>\n

Roberts, L., Gonz\u00e1lez Alonso, J., Pliatsikas, C. and Rothman, J. (2018). Evidence from neurolinguistic methodologies: can it actually inform linguistic\/ language acquisition theories and translate to evidence-based applications?<\/a> Second Language Research, 34<\/em>, 125-143.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I. (2017). Parsing and working memory in bilingual sentence processing.<\/a> Bilingualism: Language and Cognition,\u00a020<\/em>, 659-678.<\/p>\n

Cunnings, I., Fotiadou, G. and Tsimpli, I. (2017). Anaphora resolution and reanalysis during L2 sentence processing: evidence from the visual world paradigm.<\/a> Studies in Second Language Acquisition,\u00a039<\/em>,\u00a0621-652.<\/p>\n

Pliatsikas, C.,\u00a0DeLuca, V.,\u00a0Moschopoulou, E.\u00a0and\u00a0Saddy, J. D.\u00a0(2017). Immersive bilingualism reshapes the core of the brain.<\/a>\u00a0Brain Structure and Function, 222<\/em>, 1785-1795.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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