Recent News

“Bilingualism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders” (“Διγλωσσία και Νευροαναπτυξιακές Διαταραχές”). General-audience article published in the Cypriot online news outlet “παιδείαnews” (in Greek).


“Typical language development, individual differences, and irregularities” (Τυπική γλωσσική ανάπτυξη, «διαφορές» και «αποκλίσεις»). General-audience article published in the Cypriot online news outlet “παιδείαnews” (in Greek).


The acquisition and processing of pragmatics in multilinguals and third language learners. New chapter to appear in J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. G. Alonso, S. M. Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, and J. Rothman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition and Processing. Cambridge University Press.


Antoniou, K. & Spanoudis, G. (to appear). An investigation of the multilingual and bi-dialectal advantage in executive control. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu & B. C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.


Oral presentation to be given at the Multilingual Awareness & Multilingual Practices Conference (MAMP19), Antwerp, Belgium. Antoniou K. & Spanoudis, G. An Investigation of Bi-dialectal Young Adults’ Vocabulary and Executive Control Skills.


Poster to be presented at the 9th Annual Scientific Conference of the Center for Applied Neuroscience, Nicosia, Cyprus. Antoniou, K. & Spanoudis, G. Where do bi-dialectals lie in the bilingual-monolingual continuum? An investigation of their vocabulary and executive control skills.


Oral presentation to be given at the International Conference on Multilingual Practice, Szczecin, Poland. Antoniou, K. & Spanoudis, G. How does bi-dialectalism compare to multilingualism and monolingualism? An examination of young adults’ vocabulary and executive control skills


Just accepted for publication in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Hope it will be a good read! Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (accepted). How does childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of pragmatic meanings? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.


Invited talk to be given at the Cyprus Acquisition Team weekly meetings, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus. Antoniou, K. (2018). Pragmatic and executive control skills of bilingual and bi-dialectal children from different sociolinguistic contexts. Invited talk to be given at the Cyprus Acquisition Team weekly meetings, University of Cyprus.


Poster to be presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus. Antoniou K. & Spanoudis. G. (2018). Inside the bi-ialectal mind and brain: An electrophysiological study on executive functions. Poster to be presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Center for Applied Neuroscience, Nicosia, University of Cyprus.


“Multilingual implicature”. Enjoy! Antoniou, K. (to appear). Multilingual pragmatics: Implicature comprehension in adult L2 learners and multilingual children. In Naoko Taguchi (Ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition.


Paper to appear in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language development. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., Katsos, N. (to appear). The Impact of Childhood Bilingualism and Bi-dialectalism on Pragmatic Interpretation and Processing. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.


Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. Veenstra, A., Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., & Kissine, M. (accepted). Resisting attraction: Individual differences in executive control are associated with subject-verb agreement errors in production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.


Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Memory and Language. Deliens, G., Antoniou, K., Clin, E., Ostashchenko, E., & Kissine, M. (in press). Context, facial expression and prosody in irony processing. Journal of Memory and Language.


Abstract accepted for poster presentation at the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., Katsos, N. (2017). “How does childhood bilingualism and bidialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of implicature?”


Abstract accepted for oral presentation the Structural and Developmental Aspects of Bidialectalism workshop, University of Tromsø, Νorway. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (2017). “The effect of childhood bilingualism and bidialectalism on executive control and implicature understanding skills”


Abstract accepted for oral presentation at the EuroSLA 27, University of Reading, United Kingdom. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (2017). “How does childhood bilingualism and bidialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of implicature?”


Abstract accepted for oral presentation at the 7th biannual Experimental Pragmatics Conference, University of Cologne, Germany. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (2017). “How does childhood bilingualism and bilectalism affect the interpretation and processing of implicature?”


Abstract accepted for poster presentation at the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Veenstra, A., Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., & Kissine, M. (2016). “Resisting attraction: The role of executive control in monolingual and bilingual children”.