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Academic Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr Ian Cunnings<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(i.cunnings@reading.ac.uk)
\n<\/em>(ORCiD<\/a>, Google Scholar<\/a>, Open Science Framework<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:\u00a0<\/strong>Psycholinguistics, especially sentence and discourse comprehension; Eye-tracking during reading and listening; Memory retrieval during language comprehension; First and second language acquisition; Multilingualism<\/p>\n

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Prof. Christos Pliatsikas<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(c.pliatsikas@reading.ac.uk)
\n<\/em>(ORCiD<\/a>, Google Scholar<\/a>, Lab Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:\u00a0<\/strong>the effects of bi-\/multilingualism and the experience of learning additional languages on brain structure and function; behavioural and MRI techniques; native-like achievement in morphological and syntactic processing by second language learners<\/p>\n

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\"\"Prof. Doug Saddy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(j.d.saddy@reading.ac.uk)
\n<\/em>(ORCiD<\/a>, Google Scholar<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong>\u00a0Typical and atypical language processing; Typical and atypical language acquisition; Theoretical linguistics; Cognitive Neurodynamics and Neuroscience; Analysis and computational modelling of brain signals<\/p>\n

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Prof. Ludovica Serratrice<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk)
\n<\/em>(ORCiD<\/a>, Google Scholar<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest:<\/strong> Language development; Discourse-pragmatics and reference; Processing of complex syntactic constructions in school-age children; Metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children; Sentence processing in adult bilinguals<\/p>\n

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Dr George Pontikas<\/strong><\/a>\"\"\u00a0(g.pontikas@reading.ac.uk)
\n<\/em>(ORCiD<\/a>, Google Scolar<\/a>, ResearchGate<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Areas of Interest: <\/strong>Psycholinguistics; language acquisition and language impairment; bilingualism and multilingualism; language processing and syntactic complexity; eye-tracking during language comprehension<\/p>\n

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