Ludovica Serratrice

Email:
l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
0118 -378 5540
Job title:
Professor of Bi-Multilingualism

Responsibilities:

Director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism

Areas of interest

Language development in monolingual and multilingual contexts
Discourse-pragmatics in connection to the use and acquisition of reference
Processing of complex syntactic constructions in school-age children
Metalinguistic awareness in multilingual children
Sentence-level processing in adult bilinguals
English, Italian, Spanish.

Teaching

Multilingualism and Language Impairment across the Lifespan
Introduction to Speech and Language Pathology
Linguistic Assessment Clinic.

Research centres and groups

Language and Cognition
Child Development Group
Lifespan Development.

Academic qualifications

PhD in Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (2000)
MA in Language Acquisition, University of Essex (1995)
Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Istituto Universitario Lingue Moderne Milano (1994)
Diploma in Conference Interpreting, Scuola Superiori Interpreti e Traduttori Milano (1990).

Publications

Valentini, A. and Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 (2023) Longitudinal predictors of listening comprehension in bilingual primary school-aged children. Language Learning , 73 (1). pp. 5-46. ISSN: 0023-8333 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12513
Wright, E. , Stojanovik, V. , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 (2023) Deaf children with spoken language bilingualism: professional guidance to parents. Deafness & Education International , 25 (1). pp. 21-39. ISSN: 1557-069X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2022.2062096

Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 (2022) What can syntactic priming tell us about crosslinguistic influence?. In: Messenger, K. , (eds.) Syntactic priming in language acquisition: representations, mechanism and applications. Trends in Language Acquisition Research John Benjamins , Amsterdam. pp. 129-156. ISBN: 9789027211637 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.31.07ser
Wright, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-6619-8473 , Stojanovik, V. ORCID: 0000-0001-6791-9968 , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 (2022) Spoken language multilingualism in deaf children: parental decision-making. Deafness & Education International ISSN: 1464-3154 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14643154.2022.2143608
Alroqi, H. , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 , Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2022) The association between screen media quantity, content, and context and language development. Journal of Child Language ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000265
Kašćelan, D. , Prévost, P. , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 , Tuller, L. , Unsworth, S. , De Cat, C. (2022) A review of questionnaires quantifying bilingual experience in children: do they document the same constructs?. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 25 (1). pp. 29-41. ISSN: 1469-1841 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728921000390

Alroqi, H. , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 , Cameron-Faulkner, T. (2021) The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers. Journal of Children and Media ISSN: 1748-2801 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2021.1921819
Valentini, A. and Serratrice, L. (2021) What can bilingual children tell us about the developmental relationship between vocabulary and grammar?. Cognitive Science , 45 (11). ISSN: 0364-0213 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13062
Cameron‐Faulkner, T. ORCID: 0000-0001-6928-4329 , Malik, N. , Steele, C. , Coretta, S. ORCID: 0000-0001-9627-5532 , Serratrice, L. ORCID: 0000-0001-5141-6186 , Lieven, E. ORCID: 0000-0002-2270-8910 (2021) A cross‐cultural analysis of early prelinguistic gesture development and Its relationship to language development. Child Development , 92 (1). pp. 273-290. ISSN: 1467-8624 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13406

Serratrice, L. (2020) Lessons from studying language development in bilingual children. In: Rowland, C. , Theakston, A. , Ambridge, B. , Twomey, K. , (eds.) Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn. Trends in Language Acquisition Research , 27. John Benjamins Publishing Company pp. 263-285. ISBN: 9789027261007 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.27.12ser
Macdonald, R. , Brandt, S. , Theakston, A. , Lieven, E. , Serratrice, L. (2020) The role of animacy in children's interpretation of relative clauses in English: evidence from sentence-picture matching and eye movements. Cognitive science , 44 (8). pp 0. ISSN: 1551-6709 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12874
Serratrice, L. and De Cat, C. (2020) Individual differences in the production of referential expressions: the effect of language proficiency, language exposure and executive function in bilingual and monolingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 23 (2). pp. 371-386. ISSN: 1469-1841 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000962
Finch, K. , Theakston, A. , Serratrice, L. (2020) Teaching modern foreign languages in multilingual classrooms: an examination of Key Stage 2 teachers’ experiences. Language Learning Journal , 48 (5). pp. 628-642. ISSN: 1753-2167 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2018.1448432

Serratrice, L. (2018) Becoming bilingual in early childhood. In: De Houwer, A. and Ortega, L. , (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge, UK. ISBN: 9781316831922
Denhovska, N. , Serratrice, L. , Payne, J. (2018) Frequency and working memory effects in incidental learning of a complex agreement pattern. Lingua , 207 pp. 49-70. ISSN: 243841 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2018.02.009
Miller, D. , Bayram, F. , Rothman, J. , Serratrice, L. , eds. (2018) Bilingual cognition and language: the state of the science across its subfields. Studies in Bilingualism pp. 1-12. ISSN: 0928-1533 ISBN: 9789027200150 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sibil.54
Bayram, F. , Miller, D. , Rothman, J. , Serratrice, L. (2018) Studies in bilingualism. In: Miller, D. , Fatih, B. , Rothman, J. , Serratrice, L. , (eds.) Bilingual Cognition and Language: The State of the Science Across its Subfields. John Benjamins pp. 1-12. ISBN: 9789027264541 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/sibil.54
Herve, C. and Serratrice, L. (2018) The development of determiners in the context of French-English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence. Journal of Child Language , 45 (3). pp. 767-787. ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000917000459
De Cat, C. , Gusnanto, A. , Serratrice, L. (2018) Identifying a threshold for the executive function advantage in bilingual children. Studies in Second Language Acquisition , 40 (1). pp. 119-151. ISSN: 1470-1545 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0272263116000486

Cameron Faulkner, T. , Macdonald, R. , Serratrice, L. , Melville, J. , Gattis, M. (2017) Plant yourself where language blooms: direct experience of nature changes how parents and children talk about nature. Children, Youth and Environments , 27 (2). pp. 110-124. ISSN: 1546-2250 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.7721/chilyoutenvi.27.2.0110
Denhovska, N. and Serratrice, L. (2017) Incidental learning of gender agreement in L2. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research , 46 (5). pp. 1187-1211. ISSN: 0090-6905 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10936-017-9487-x

Serratrice, L. (2016) Cross-linguistic influence, cross-linguistic priming and the nature of shared syntactic structures. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism , 6 (6). pp. 822-827. ISSN: 1879-9264 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lab.6.6.15ser
Denhovska, N. , Serratrice, L. , Payne, J. (2016) Acquisition of second language grammar under incidental learning conditions: the role of frequency and working memory. Language Learning , 66 (1). pp. 159-190. ISSN: 0023-8333 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lang.12142
Herve, C. , Serratrice, L. , Corley, M. (2016) Dislocations in French–English bilingual children: an elicitation study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 19 (5). pp. 987-1000. ISSN: 1469-1841 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728915000401
Hesketh, A. , Serratrice, L. , Ashworth, R. (2016) Encouraging use of subordination in children’s narratives: a classroom-based priming study. Language Learning and Development , 12 (4). pp. 413-428. ISSN: 1547-3341 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2016.1162721

Abbot-Smith, K. and Serratrice, L. (2015) Word order, referential expression, and case cues to the acquisition of transitive sentences in Italian. Journal of Child Language , 42 (1). pp. 1-31. ISSN: 0305-0009 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000421
Serratrice, L. and Allen, S. , eds. (2015) The acquisition of reference. Trends in Language Acquiition Research , 15. John Benjamins , Amsterdam. pp 339. ISBN: 9789027244048
Serratrice, L. and Allen, S. (2015) Introduction: an overview of the acquisition of reference. In: Serratrice, L. and Allen, S. , (eds.) The Acquisition of Reference. Trends in Language Acquisition Research John Benjamins (15). , Amsterdam. pp. 1-24. ISBN: 9789027244048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.15
Serratrice, L. and Hervé, C. (2015) Referential expressions in bilingual acquisition. In: Serratrice, L. and Allen, S. , (eds.) The Acquisition of Reference. Trends in Language Acquisition Research John Benjamins (15). , Amsterdam. pp. 311-333. ISBN: 9789027244048 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/tilar.15
Serratrice, L. , Hesketh, A. , Ashworth, R. (2015) The use of reported speech in children's narratives: a priming study. First Language , 35 (1). pp. 68-87. ISSN: 0142-7237 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0142723715569552

Nitschke, S. , Serratrice, L. , Kidd, E. (2014) The effect of linguistic nativeness in structural priming in comprehension. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience , 29 (5). pp. 525-542. ISSN: 2327-3801 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2013.766355

Ludovica Serratrice

Areas of interest

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Academic qualifications

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