ATOM
Adaptations to Multilingualism
Members
Publications
ATOM stands for Adaptations to Multilingualism. This project investigates how the use of more than one language shapes cognition, and what is the role of language proximity in this shaping. The project has a strong comparative perspective, testing speakers of Catalan, Spanish, and Greek, in a variety of linguistic tasks, mainly tapping into grammatical illusions.
Members
Evelina Leivada (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ICREA)
Principal Investigator
Bilingual and bidialectal acquisition, language development in typical and atypical populations, language variation, theoretical linguistics
Lídia Gallego Balsà (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Research Team
Sociolinguistics of Higher Education, Multilingual Education, Language Policy, Discourse Analysis and Ethnography
Publications
Preprints
Camilla Masullo, Alba Casado, Evelina Leivada & Antonella Sorace. Preprint. Register variation and linguistic background modulate accuracy in detecting morphosyntactic errors. PsyArXiv.
2024
Camilla Masullo, Alba Casado & Evelina Leivada. 2024. The role of minority language bilingualism in spotting agreement attraction errors: Evidence from Italian varieties. PLoS ONE 19(2), e0298648.
Vittoria Dentella, Camilla Masullo & Evelina Leivada. 2024. Bilingual disadvantages are systematically compensated by bilingual advantages across tasks and populations. Nature Scientific Reports 14, 2107.
2023
Vittoria Dentella, Fritz Günther & Evelina Leivada. 2023. Systematic testing of three Language Models reveals low language accuracy, absence of response stability, and a yes-response bias. PNAS 120(51), e2309583120.
Evelina Leivada. 2023. A classification bias and an exclusion bias jointly overinflated the estimation of publication biases in bilingualism research. Behavioral Sciences 13, 812.
Camilla Masullo, Vittoria Dentella & Evelina Leivada. 2023. 73% of the observed bilingual (dis)advantageous effects on cognition stem from sociolinguistic factors: A systematic review. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 1-15.
Evelina Leivada, Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez, Maria Carmen Parafita Couto & Sílvia Perpiñán. 2023. Bilingualism with minority languages: Why searching for unicorn language users does not move us forward. Applied Psycholinguistics 44, 384-399.
Projecte PID2021-124399NA-I00
Adaptaciones al multilingüismo y el papel de la proximidad lingüística (ATOM)
Programa Estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+I (Proyectos de “Generación de Conocimiento”)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MCIN).
