Dr. Panagiotis Kenanidis

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Language and Cognition of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, where I am part of a research team investigating individual differences in first language and second/foreign language acquisition and attainment.

Research interests

I am broadly interested in the role that individual and cross-linguistic variation play in the first language acquisition process. In particular, my PhD project aims to examine the early grammatical development in monolingual Spanish- and Greek-speaking children (between 3 and 8 years of age), and its relationship with a number of cognitive (memory, learning) and linguistic (morphological complexity, phonological properties, vocabulary) factors. This will allow investigating the relative effect of each factor on children’s language abilities at different ages.

Qualifications

PhD Psycholinguistics MSc Cognition in Science and Society BSc Psychology

Publications

Kenanidis, P., Llompart, M., Pili-Moss, D., & Dąbrowska, E. (2025). Cognitive abilities underlying the earliest stages of second language acquisition: an artificial language study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 41(1), 110-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2576908

Kenanidis, P., Llompart, M., Santos, S. F., & Dąbrowska, E. (2024). Redundancy can hinder adult L2 grammar learning: Evidence from case markers of varying salience levels. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1368080. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1368080

Kenanidis, P., Dąbrowska, E., Llompart, M., & Pili-Moss, D. (2023). Can adults learn L2 grammar after prolonged exposure under incidental conditions?. PLoS One, 18(7), e0288989. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288989

Kenanidis, P., Chondrogianni, V., Legendre, G., & Culbertson, J. (2020). Cue reliability, salience and early comprehension of agreement: Evidence from Greek. Journal of Child Language, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000920000628