Our research is focused on the following main themes:
– Literacy and print exposure
Dąbrowska, E., Pascual, E., Macías-Gómez-Estern, B., & Llompart, M. (2023). Literacy-related differences in morphological knowledge: A nonce-word study. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1136337. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1136337
De la Garza, V., Dabrowska, E., & Gedik, T. A. (2026). Mind over print: Cognitive predictors of the ability to communicate referentially. Applied Psycholinguistics, 47, e39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014271642610071X
Gedik, T. A., De la Garza, V., & Dabrowska, E. (2026). Literacy predicts performance on a second-order false-belief task. PLoS One, 21(9), e0357313. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0357313
Wright, R., Geertsema, S., Le Roux, M., Winckel, E., & Dąbrowska, E. (2024). The acquisition of constructions: Does modality matter?. Reading & Writing-Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 15(1), 489. https://hdl.handle.net/10520/ejc-reading_v15_n1_a489
– Explicit and implicit language aptitude
Kenanidis, P., Garibyan, A., & Dąbrowska, E. (2026). Rethinking L1–L2 differences: the role of explicit cognitive abilities. Language and Cognition, 18, e50. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2026.10096
Llompart, M., & Dąbrowska, E. (2023). “Foreign” language aptitude predicts individual differences in native grammatical proficiency. Linguistics, 61(5), 1165-1193. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2022-0009
Prela, L., Llompart, M., & Dąbrowska, E. (2022). Aptitude and experience as predictors of grammatical proficiency in adult Greek-English bilinguals. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1062821. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1062821
Winckel, E. & Dąbrowska, E. (2024). Language Analytic Ability, Print Exposure, Memory and Comprehension of Complex Syntax by Adult Native Speakers. Journal of Cognition, 7(1), 7-7. https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.333
– Heritage language
Prela, L., Dąbrowska, E., & Llompart, M. (2024). Beyond age: exploring ultimate attainment in heritage speakers and late L2 learners. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1419116. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1419116
Grose-Hodge, M., Dabrowska, E., & Divjak, D. (2024). Beyond accuracy. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech, 5(3), 328-356. https://doi.org/10.1558/jmbs.23513
Grose-Hodge, M., Dabrowska, E., & Divjak, D. (2025). Bilingual acquisition during school years: predictors of achievement in the societal and heritage language. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 3, 1419563. https://doi.org/10.3389/flang.2024.1419563
– Developmental language disorder
Blake, A., Dąbrowska, E., & Llompart, M. (2025). Toward an understanding of developmental language disorder in adults: investigating the relationship between cognitive abilities and linguistic outcomes. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(8), 3895-3918. https://doi.org/10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00557
Blake, A., Dąbrowska, E., & Riches, N. (2025). Exploring cognitive predictors of language in children with developmental language disorder: The role of nonverbal IQ, working memory, implicit statistical learning, and speed of automatization. Journal of Communication Disorders, 116, 106541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2025.106541
– Artificial language learning
Fernández Santos, S., Rebuschat, P., Correia, S., Monaghan, P., & Llompart, M. (2026). The effect of morphological salience and novel phonology in the initial stage of second language learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 48(3), 732-756. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263126101776
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., Llompart, M., Pili-Moss, D., & Dąbrowska, E. (2026). 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
– Input properties in L1 & L2 acquisition
Fernández Santos, S., Llompart, M., & Dąbrowska, E. (2025). Predictive processing can override perceptual information: evidence from Spanish object relative clauses. Language and Cognition, 17, e59. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2025.10015
Llompart, M., Fernández Santos, S., & Dąbrowska, E. (2025). Comprehension of object relatives in Spanish: the role of frequency and transparency in acquisition and adult grammar. Cognitive Linguistics, 36(1), 31-57. https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2024-0016
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