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Overview

Elena Nicoladis is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a significant focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Language and Linguistics as well as Social Psychology also form part of their subfield expertise.

Their work covers a range of key topics including Hearing Impairment and Communication, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, and Child and Animal Learning Development.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Gesture
  • Journal of Child Language
  • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • How personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion predict the effects of the COVID-19 on the mental health of Canadians, 2021, PLoS ONE
  • The Directionality of the Relationship Between Executive Functions and Language Skills: A Literature Review, 2022, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Musicians show greater cross-modal integration, intermodal integration, and specialization in working memory than non-musicians, 2020, Psychology of Music
  • Whyjumped is so difficult: tense/aspect marking in Mandarin-English bilingual children, 2020, Journal of Child Language
  • Pantomime (Not Silent Gesture) in Multimodal Communication: Evidence From Children's Narratives, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology

Notable frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • Anahita Shokrkon
  • Poliana Gonçalves Barbosa
  • Rielle Gagnon
  • Paula Marentette
  • Farzaneh Anjomshoae

Best Publications

  • Language differentiation in early bilingual development

    Fred Genesee;Elena Nicoladis;Johanne Paradis

  • Bilingual First Language Acquisition

    Fred Genesee;Elena Nicoladis

  • Talking with strangers: A study of bilingual children's communicative competence

    Fred Genesee;Isabelle Boivin;Elena Nicoladis

  • Early emergence of structural constraints on code-mixing: evidence from French–English bilingual children

    Johanne Paradis;Elena Nicoladis;Fred Genesee

  • Cross-linguistic transfer in adjective-noun strings by preschool bilingual children*

    Elena Nicoladis

  • Language development in preschool bilingual children

    Elena Nicoladis;Fred Genesee

  • Gesture and early bilingual development.

    Elena Nicoladis;Rachel I. Mayberry;Fred Genesee

  • The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice

    Johanne Paradis;Elena Nicoladis

  • A Longitudinal Study of Pragmatic Differentiation in Young Bilingual Children.

    Elena Nicoladis;Fred Genesee

  • Bilingual children's acquisition of the past tense: a usage-based approach

    Johanne Paradis;Elena Nicoladis;Martha Crago;Fred Genesee

  • The role of type and token frequency in using past tense morphemes correctly.

    Elena Nicoladis;Andrea Palmer;Paula Marentette

  • What's the difference between 'toilet paper' and 'paper toilet'? French-English bilingual children's crosslinguistic transfer in compound nouns.

    Elena Nicoladis

  • Learning English and Losing Chinese: A Case Study of a Child Adopted from China.

    Elena Nicoladis;Howard Grabois

  • The role of a child's productive vocabulary in the language choice of a bilingual family:

    Elena Nicoladis;Giovanni Secco

  • Gesture Reflects Language Development: Evidence From Bilingual Children

    Rachel I. Mayberry;Elena Nicoladis

  • Becoming Bilingual in the Amigos Two-Way Immersion Program

    Mary T. Cazabon;Elena Nicoladis;Wallace E. Lambert

  • Finding le mot juste : Differences between bilingual and monolingual children's lexical access in comprehension and production

    Stephanie Yan;Elena Nicoladis

  • A cross-cultural study on the use of gestures: Evidence for cross-linguistic transfer?

    Simone Pika;Elena Nicoladis;Paula F. Marentette

  • Describing Motion Events in Adult L2 Spanish Narratives

    Samuel Navarro;Elena Nicoladis

  • First Clues to the Existence of Two Input Languages: Pragmatic and Lexical Differentiation in a Bilingual Child.

    Elena Nicoladis

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Genesee
Fred Genesee McGill University
Johanne Paradis
Johanne Paradis University of Alberta
Wallace E. Lambert
Wallace E. Lambert McGill University
Sandra A. Wiebe
Sandra A. Wiebe University of Alberta
Rachel I. Mayberry
Rachel I. Mayberry University of California, San Diego
Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University
Jeffrey Bisanz
Jeffrey Bisanz University of Alberta

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