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Research
Latest papers
Infants' pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary.
Infant behavior & development · 2024 · first author
Monolingual and bilingual children's production of complex syntactic structures.
Journal of child language · 2024
How bilinguals refer to Mandarin throwing actions in English.
The international journal of bilingualism : cross-disciplinary, cross-linguistic studies of language behavior · 2022 · first author
Latest funding
- $25,000
International Symposium on Bilingualism
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $200,000
Cognitive predictors of bilingual children's language development
NSERC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $414,772
Gestures as a potential cue to children's verb learning
SSHRC · 2012 · Principal investigator
28 publications.
Infants' pointing at nine months is associated with maternal sensitivity but not vocabulary.
Nicoladis E, Barbosa PG
Monolingual and bilingual children's production of complex syntactic structures.
Korade C, Nicoladis E, Charest M
How bilinguals refer to Mandarin throwing actions in English.
Nicoladis E, Gao HH
Nine-month old infants' hand preference shows no link to concurrent or later vocabulary.
Nicoladis E, Barbosa P
Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.
Shokrkon A, Nicoladis E
Hand preference in referential gestures: Relationships to accessing words for speaking in monolingual and bilingual children.
Nicoladis E, Dueck BS, Zarezadehkheibari S
How personality traits of neuroticism and extroversion predict the effects of the COVID-19 on the mental health of Canadians.
Shokrkon A, Nicoladis E
"This is a Titanic song": the effect of familiarity on children's learning affective meaning in music.
Stuber R, Nicoladis E
Developing Abstract Representations of Passives: Evidence From Bilingual Children's Interpretation of Passive Constructions.
Nicoladis E, Sajeev S
Pantomime (Not Silent Gesture) in Multimodal Communication: Evidence From Children's Narratives.
Marentette P, Furman R, Suvanto ME, Nicoladis E
International Symposium on Bilingualism
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Keywords: bilingualism; interdisciplinary approaches; linguistics; psychology; education
Cognitive predictors of bilingual children's language development
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Gestures as a potential cue to children's verb learning
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Keywords: language acquisition; word learning; verbs; children; gestures
When gestures are not timed with language: inter-and intrapersonal effects
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Keywords: gesture; narrative; language and thought; bilingualism; language development; perspective
Bilinguals' cross-linguistic transfer as speech production errors
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
The role of input variation in language acquisition: evidence from French-English bilingual children
Principal investigators: Paradis, Johanne C.
Keywords: bilingualism; first language acquisition; morphosyntax; past tense; usage-based theory; input frequency
Do conventionality and mimesis precede iconicity in gesture
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Keywords: gesture; iconicity; conventionality; mimesis; symbolic representation; language acquisition
How do children learn the order of adjective-noun constructions
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
The iconicity of gestures across language, modality, and age
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
Keywords: gestures; iconicity; transparency; language acquisition; asl; bilingualism; gesture development
The cues children use to acquire language: Evidence from bilingual children
Principal investigators: Nicoladis, Elena
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Elena Nicoladis and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Elena Nicoladis and Monique Charest: 1 shared paper
- Psychology
- Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
- Education
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