PROJECTS
Experimental argument analysis: reasoning with stereotypes
I am currently a Senior Research Associate at UEA working on the project “Experimental argument analysis: Reasoning with stereotypes” (PI: Eugen Fischer, Co-I: Paul Engelhardt). The project is funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
This interdisciplinary project develops the new research program of experimental argument analysis (EAA). We use psycholinguistic methods (eye-tracking, visual world paradigm and behavioural studies) to study automatic comprehension inferences and deploy findings to assess reconstructions of philosophical arguments. For proof of concept, we have analyses influential arguments from the philosophy of perception: the argument from illusion and the argument from hallucination. Experimental findings support novel reconstructions that expose previously overlooked fallacies. The project focuses on inferences from polysemous words examining appearance (e.g. “look”, “appear”, “seem”) and perception verbs (e.g. “see”, “be aware of”, “imagine”). See more info here.
Collaborative project with Matt Husband (University of Oxford), Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London) and Suzi Lima (University of Toronto)
Growing out of my research on generics (e.g.‘Tigers have stripes’ or ‘Jessie delivers the mail’) both from a theoretical and an experimental perspective (see various publications here), investigating generics across a wider range of languages has become the focus of this project.
In this project we study generics across languages with the aim to provide the first systematic descriptive characterisation of generics both within and across language families. In order to do so, we are currently developing the Generics Toolkit. See more info here.
Collaborative project with Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge), Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh) and Josephine Bowerman.
This project focuses on the communicative profile of autistic people adopting a new perspective which focuses on difference rather than deficiency. Our project combines experimental linguistics with principles of neurodiversity, inclusive methodologies, and participatory approaches. The case study is the language of quantity: numerals, quantifiers (‘One hundred people went to the concert; most of them had fun’) and generic generalisations (‘Concerts are fun’), which is everyday vocabulary that has remained unexplored in autism. We will also study figurative language (metaphor and metonymy). See more info here.
Acquisition of generics and universals in Spanish
Collaborative project with Elena Castroviejo Miró and Agustin Vicente at UPV/EHU
Language Attrition and Lived Experiences of Attrition among Greek Speakers in London
Collaborative project with Petros Karatsareas (University of Westminster)
Speaking Greek in the UK: Investigating nominals in L1Greek-L2 English speakers
Collaborative project with Artemis Alexiadou (Leibniz-ZAS/HU-Berlin)
Learning about the world through generic statements: a cross-linguistic perspective
Collaborative project with Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge) and Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London)
Solo and Collaborative project with Stavroula Alexandropoulou (UCL)
The definite article in Greek, distributivity and free choice items
Research related to my PhD thesis