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Overview

Antonella Sorace is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, with a significant emphasis on bilingualism, language development, and autism spectrum disorder.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology (43 publications)
  • Neuroscience (29 publications)

Within these fields, key subfields of interest are:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology (34 publications)
  • Cognitive Neuroscience (29 publications)
  • Language and Linguistics (11 publications)
  • Linguistics and Language (7 publications)
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (6 publications)

The principal topics covered in their work are:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (38 publications)
  • Language Development and Disorders (36 publications)
  • Reading and Literacy Development (22 publications)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (16 publications)
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research (12 publications)
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning (10 publications)
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (10 publications)

Antonella Sorace has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals, frequently publishing in:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition (5 publications)
  • Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (5 publications)
  • Frontiers in Psychology (3 publications)
  • Languages (3 publications)
  • Autism in Adulthood (2 publications)

They have collaborated regularly with a group of coauthors including:

  • Sue Fletcher-Watson (6 coauthored papers)
  • Maria Garraffa (5 coauthored papers)
  • Alba Casado (5 coauthored papers)
  • Elena Babatsouli (5 coauthored papers)
  • Ocke-Schwen Bohn (5 coauthored papers)

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Bilingualism in autism: Language learning profiles and social experiences," 2020, published in Autism
  • "Measuring the Impact of Bilingualism on Executive Functioning Via Inhibitory Control Abilities in Autistic Children," 2021, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • "Perspectives and Experiences of Autistic Multilingual Adults: A Qualitative Analysis," 2021, Autism in Adulthood
  • "Editorial: The Notion of the Native Speaker Put to the Test: Recent Research Advances," 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children's attitudes and perceptions," 2021, International Journal of Bilingualism

Their scholarly output also includes book publications, with at least one book published by Cambridge University Press: Bilingualism Matters (2023), which has garnered citations within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Pinning down the concept of “interface” in bilingualism

    Antonella Sorace

  • Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian

    Antonella Sorace;Francesca Filiaci

  • MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION OF LINGUISTIC ACCEPTABILITY

    Ellen Gurman Bard;David Robertson;Antonella Sorace

  • Gradients in Auxiliary Selection with Intransitive Verbs.

    Antonella Sorace

  • First language attrition and syntactic subjects: A study of Greek and Italian near-native speakers of English

    Ianthi Tsimpli;Antonella Sorace;Caroline Heycock;Francesca Filiaci

  • Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap

    Antonella Sorace;Ludovica Serratrice

  • Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax–pragmatics interface: Subjects and objects in English–Italian bilingual and monolingual acquisition

    Ludovica Serratrice;Antonella Sorace;Sandra Paoli

  • Theoretical and developmental issues in the syntax of subjects: Evidence from near-native Italian

    Adriana Belletti;Elisa Bennati;Antonella Sorace

  • Incomplete vs. divergent representations of unaccusativity in non native grammars of Italian

    Antonella Sorace

  • Gradience in Linguistic Data

    Antonella Sorace;Frank Keller

  • Native language attrition and developmental instability at the syntax-discourse interface: Data, interpretations and methods

    Antonella Sorace

  • Selective optionality in language development

    Antonella Sorace

  • Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: Testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children

    Antonella Sorace;Ludovica Serratrice;Francesca Filiaci;Michela Baldo

  • The role of age of onset and input in early child bilingualism in Greek and Dutch

    Sharon Unsworth;Froso Argyri;Leonie Cornips;Aafke Hulk

  • Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children

    Efrosyni Argyri;Antonella Sorace

  • Metalinguistic Knowledge and Language Use in Acquisition-poor Environments*

    Antonella Sorace

  • Syntactic optionality in non-native grammars

    Antonella Sorace

  • Differentiating interfaces: L2 performance in syntax-semantics and syntax-discourse phenomena

    Lanthi Tsimpli;Antonella Sorace

  • The use of acceptability judgements in second language acquisition research

    Antonella Sorace

  • Differential effects of attrition in the L1 syntax of near-native L2 speakers

    A Sorace

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas H. Bak
Thomas H. Bak University of Edinburgh
Holly P. Branigan
Holly P. Branigan University of Edinburgh
Patrick Sturt
Patrick Sturt University of Edinburgh
Richard Shillcock
Richard Shillcock University of Edinburgh
Martin J. Pickering
Martin J. Pickering University of Edinburgh
Sue Fletcher-Watson
Sue Fletcher-Watson University of Edinburgh
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University
Maria Teresa Guasti
Maria Teresa Guasti University of Milano-Bicocca
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Martin Corley
Martin Corley University of Edinburgh

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