Dr Nadiia Denhovska
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Nadiia is a Lecturer in Developmental Cognition. Nadiia’s work focuses on language development, including second language acquisition and bilingual language development and processing. Her research concentrates primarily on mechanisms of language learning and cognitive factors contributing to language acquisition.
Nadiia has published articles and served as a reviewer in such journals as Language Learning, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, Applied Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. In her current role she teaches on MSc and BSc in Child Development programmes and on a variety of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, supervises students, and conducts research primarily at the interconnection between language and cognition.
Before joining UCLan, Nadiia was a Fulbright fellow at California State University, Long Beach, USA, where she worked at the interface between Psychology and Linguistics and conducted research in Cognitive Linguistics. She then continued research in Psycholinguistics by working on her PhD exploring factors contributing to implicit learning of a second language at the University of Manchester, UK, where she also taught on Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition and Research Methods modules. She conducted post-doctoral research on bilingual language processing with Dr. Ludovica Serratrice and Dr. Andrew Stewart at the University of Manchester. Since 2015 Nadiia is a Lecturer in Developmental Cognition at UCLan.
- Ph.D. Linguistics, University of Manchester, 2014
- M.A. Linguistics, California State University Long Beach, 2010
- Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Association, USA, 2008-2010
- GTA Scholarship, University of Manchester, UK, 2011-2014
- Postgraduate Research Fieldwork Bursary; School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK, 2013
- Graduate School Postgraduate Research Travel Fund; School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester, UK, 2012
- Provost Summer Award for Research, Scholarly and Creative Activity; Department of University Research, California State University, Long Beach, USA, 2009
- Language Acquisition, Mechanisms of Language Learning, Implicit Learning, Language and Memory
- Second Language Learning
- Bilingualism
- Cognitive Development
- Experimental Psycholinguistics
- Fulbright Fellow, Australian Linguistic Society
- Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Nadiia’s research lies at the interface of language and cognition. It dwells upon the mechanisms of language acquisition and processing, with a particular focus on second language learners and bilingual speakers. Specifically, Nadiia is interested in implicit versus explicit learning of languages and cognitive factors contributing to language learning and bilingual language use. She is also interested in exploring implicit learning in atypically developing populations, such as children and adults with dyslexia and ASD. Nadiia investigates this by conducting comparative research on children and adults, speakers of different languages, typically and atypically developing populations. Her research brings together methodological approaches from psychology, linguistics and cognitive science. It employs experimental methods – eye-tracking, reaction times (E-Prime), EEG – and statistical modelling in R, for the data analysis. To discuss supervision for undergraduate projects, MSc or PhD research, please contact her via email.
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- Perception, Cognition, and Neuroscience (PCN) Group
- Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience (DCN) Lab
- Action, Perception and Learning Research Group
- Denhovska, N. (2019). Implicit learning of a second language in children. Experimental Psycholinguistic Conference. Mallorca, Spain
- Denhovska, N. (2017). Incidental learning of L2 in children.International Symposium on Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. Chania, Greece
- Denhovska, N. (2017). Frequency and working memory effects in incidental learning of a complex agreement pattern in L2. Bilingualism vs. Monolingualism: A new perspective on limitations to L2 acquisition. Toulouse, France
- Denhovska, N. (2016). Incidental learning of a complex agreement rule in L2: The role of frequency and working memory. Conference on Multilingualism (COM), Ghent University, Belgium
- Denhovska, N. (2016). Frequency, animacy and working memory effects in the incidental learning of L2 grammar. The 5th Implicit Learning Seminar, Lancaster University, UK
- Denhovska, N. (2015). Frequency, animacy and working memory impacts on implicit learning of agreement in a second language. Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia
- Denhovska, N. (2014). The role of frequency and animacy in the implicit learning of a noun-adjective agreement rule in L2. Annual Meeting of Linguistics Association of Great Britain, University of Oxford, UK
- Denhovska, N. (2013). Investigating L2 grammar knowledge acquisition under implicit and explicit learning conditions. PARLAY conference “Eliciting data in second language research: Challenge and innovation”, University of York, UK
- Denhovska, N. (2012). Implicit learning of a natural language grammar. Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference (ERP), Madrid, Spain
- Denhovska, N. (2012). Implicit learning of a natural language grammar. Manchester and Salford New Researchers Forum in Linguistics, University of Manchester, UK
- Denhovska, N. (2010). The role of frequency in implicit learning of a second language. Paper presentation at the Annual conference of American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Atlanta, USA
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