Vicky Chondrogianni is Professor of Bilingualism and Language Development in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She read Linguistics and Classics at the University of Athens, Greece, before going on to receive an MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics and a PhD in Second Language Acquisition from the University of Cambridge. She has held research and teaching positions at Bangor University (UK), Aalborg University (Denmark), the University of Reading (UK), and the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the development and processing of morphosyntactic phenomena across an array of typologically diverse languages (Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and East Asian) in neurotypical and neurodivergent bilingual children.
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Holly Branigan is Professor of Psychology of Language and Cognition in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh and was subsequently awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Leverhulme Trust/British Academy Senior Research Fellowship. Her research interests focus on psycholinguistics, in particular syntactic and lexical representation and processing in monolingual and bilingual children and adults, with a focus on dialogue. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Psychological Science, Cognition, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Science and Language Learning.
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Lijuan Liang is a full-time researcher at the Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. She received her PhD in Psychology from Beijing Normal University and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and language learning. Her recent work focuses on the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying lexical processing, sentence comprehension, and interpersonal verbal communication in children and adults, using EEG, fNIRS, and eye-tracking. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Second Language Research, Journal of Neurolinguistics, and Cognition.
Personal websiteJiuzhou Hao is a developmental psycho-/neuro-linguist in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD in Linguistics and English Language from the University of Edinburgh. Following his doctorate, he held postdoctoral positions at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. His research focuses on language development and processing in monolingual and bilingual children and adults, with and without Developmental Language Disorder, examining how individual differences and language experience shape cognition and neural outcomes, as well as linguistic and extra-linguistic performance. He has published in high-impact journals including Journal of Child Language, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Second Language Research, and Applied Psycholinguistics.
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