Vicky Chondrogianni

Professor of Bilingualism and Language Development

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room 2.07a, Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Availability

  • I am on research leave in Semester 1 2024-25 (1 July 2024 - 31 December 2024).

Biography

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 and Subject Area responsibilities

LEL PGR Director

Programme Director for the MSc in Developmental Linguistics

Programme Director for Bilingualism Matters

PPLS rep on College staff experience committee

 

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

I am on research leave in Semester 1 of 2024-25. I will be teaching the following course in Semester 2

Second Language acquisition

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Postgraduate teaching

I am on research leave in Semester 1 of 2024-25. I will be teaching the following course in Semester 2

Second Language acquisition 

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

  • Shuya Chen (SGSSS-funded project)
  • Chase Yang
  • Yu-Hui Liao
  • Jennifer O'Donovan

  • Radina Binti Mohamad Deli

  • Ziyana Cao (Principal supervisor: Katie Overy, Edinburgh College of Arts, Faculty of Music)

 

Past PhD students supervised

University of Edinburgh

  • Qingyuan Gardner (completed in 2020)
  • Kate Repnik (completed in 2020)
  • Katerina Pantoula (Completed in 2021)
  • Chiuchou Hao
  • Diana Lopez lugo
  • Mattia Zingaretti 
  • Georgia Drakopoulou, Production and processing of ambiguity in ASD children. (PI: Prof. Richard G. Schwartz), City University of New York (completed in 2024)
  • Anne-Dorothee Roesch (completed in 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.

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