All Stories

  1. What is/are the goal(s) of translanguaging?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, January 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  2. Task effects in Farsi-English bilinguals’ use of gestures

    Article • Gesture, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Anahita Shokrkon, Dr Elena Nicoladis

  3. Texting!!!

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis, Amen Duggal

  4. Do gestures reflect children’s lexical retrieval difficulties?

    Article • Gesture, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  5. Co-speech gestures can interfere with learning foreign language words*

    Article • Gesture, December 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis, Paula Marentette

  6. Hand Preference in Children’s Referential Gestures During Storytelling: Testing for Effects of Bilingualism, Language Ability, Age, and Sex

    Article • International Journal of Developmental Science, July 2022, IOS Press

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  7. Out-group gestures can lower self-esteem

    Article • Gesture, December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  8. Musicians show greater cross-modal integration, intermodal integration, and specialization in working memory than non-musicians

    Article • Psychology of Music, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  9. How to use a wide variety of words in telling a story with a small vocabulary: cognitive predictors of lexical selection for simultaneous bilingual children

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  10. A Doctor’s Foreign Accent Affects Perceptions of Competence

    Article • Health Communication, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elena Nicoladis, Lorelei Baquiran

  11. The acquisition of English possessives by a bilingual child: Do input and usage frequency matter?

    Article • Journal of Child Language, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Elena Nicoladis, Elena Babatsouli

  12. “My French is rusty”: Proficiency and bilingual gesture use in a majority English community

    Article • Bilingualism Language and Cognition, June 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  13. French-English bilingual children’s motion event communication shows crosslinguistic influence in speech but not gesture

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  14. The role of working and short-term memory in predicting receptive vocabulary in monolingual and sequential bilingual children

    Article • International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  15. Deverbal compound comprehension in preschool children

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, June 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  16. French-English bilingual childrens tense use and shift in narration

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, November 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  17. Discourse relativity in Russian-English bilingual preschoolers’ classification of objects by gender

    Article • International Journal of Bilingualism, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  18. Why are some aspects of language acquired earlier than others?

    Article • Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, August 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  19. Cross-linguistic influence in Welsh–English bilingual children's adjectival constructions

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  20. Bilingual children’s gesture use

    Article • Gesture, December 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis, Paula Marentette

  21. Why are Noun-Verb-er compounds so difficult for English-speaking children?

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, November 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  22. Acquisition of deverbal compounds by French-speaking preschoolers

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, May 2007, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis

  23. Gestures by advanced Spanish-English second-language learners

    Article • Gesture, February 2005, John Benjamins

    Dr Elena Nicoladis