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Roumyana Slabakova is a researcher affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their academic work covers several interdisciplinary fields, including psychology, arts and humanities, and neuroscience. Their research emphasizes language and linguistics, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The primary research topics addressed by Roumyana Slabakova include:

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Slabakova's publication record reflects contributions to multiple reputable journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • International Journal of Multilingualism
  • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Pedagogical Linguistics
  • Languages
  • Nordic Journal of Linguistics

A selection of recent papers authored or coauthored by Slabakova includes:

  • Does Full Transfer Endure in L3A?, 2020, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
  • Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules, 2021, International Journal of Multilingualism

Frequent collaborators in Slabakova's research are:

  • Amber Dudley
  • Marit Westergaard
  • Marta Velnić
  • Natalia Mitrofanova
  • Yulia Rodina

In addition to journal publications, Slabakova has contributed to book literature in the field. A noted book publication is:

  • Generative Second Language Acquisition, 2020, Cambridge University Press

Best Publications

  • Second language acquisition

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • COMPETENCE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NATIVE AND NEAR-NATIVE SPEAKERS: An Investigation of the Preterite-Imperfect Contrast in Spanish

    Silvina Montrul;Roumyana Slabakova

  • Meaning in the second language

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • The scalpel model of third language acquisition

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Telicity in the second language

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • L1 transfer revisited: the L2 acquisition of telicity marking in English by Spanish and Bulgarian native speakers

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Is There a Critical Period for Semantics

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Scalar implicatures in second language acquisition

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Clitic-doubled left dislocation and focus fronting in L2 Spanish: A case of successful acquisition at the syntax–discourse interface:

    Roumyana Slabakova;Paula Kempchinsky;Jason Rothman

  • The L2 Acquisition of Morphosyntactic and Semantic Properties of the Aspectual Tenses Preterite and Imperfect

    Silvina Montrul;Roumyana Slabakova

  • Genericity and Aspect in L2 Acquisition

    Roumyana Slabakova;Silvina Montrul

  • Quantification and aspect

    Anne Marie Di Sciullo;Roumyana Slabakova

  • Recent research on the acquisition of aspect: an embarrassment of riches?

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Semantic Evidence for Functional Categories in Interlanguage Grammars.

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • The generative approach to SLA and its place in modern second language studies

    Jason Rothman;Roumyana Slabakova

  • A more careful look at the syntax–discourse interface

    Roumyana Slabakova;Ivan Ivanov

  • Learnability in the second language acquisition of semantics: a bidirectional study of a semantic parameter

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Bulgarian preverbs : aspect in phrase structure

    Roumyana Slabakova

  • Interpreting definiteness in a second language without articles: The case of L2 Russian:

    Jacee Cho;Roumyana Slabakova

  • The L3 syntax-discourse interface

    Roumyana Slabakova;María Del Pilar García Mayo

  • What is easy and what is hard to acquire in a second language

    Roumyana Slabakova

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvina Montrul
Silvina Montrul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Rothman
Jason Rothman University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Lydia White
Lydia White McGill University

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