Ludovica Serratrice

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0118 -378 5540
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Professor of Bi-Multilingualism
- 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
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Valentini, A.
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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
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Wright, E.
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Stojanovik, V.
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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
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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
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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
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Alroqi, H.
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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
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Kašćelan, D.
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Prévost, P.
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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
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Alroqi, H.
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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
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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