Kathy Conklin

Contact

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  University Park
  Nottingham
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  UK
• work0115 951 5918
• fax0115 951 5924
• kathy.conklin@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/cal/brg/

Expertise Summary

Qualifications: BA, MA, and PhD (University of Buffalo)

Areas of Expertise: First (L1) and second (L2) language representation and processing. Investigations using behavioral measures, eye-tracking, and EEG. Current research projects: (1) grammatical gender and anaphor resolution in English, French, and Chinese; (2) representation and processing of multi-word units (e.g., idioms and binomials); (3) representation and processing of cognates, interlingual homographs and homophones; (4) automatic word activation in a first language and second language, and bilingual/monolingual cognitive control; and (5) and implicit second language learning.

You can view my video 'The Eyes Trackers' on YouTube or my podcast about '2nd Language Processing'

Undergraduate Teaching: Language Development (final year), Language and the Mind (final year); Investigating English Language: The Psychology of Language (2nd year), and Academic Community (1st year)

Postgraduate Teaching: Psychology of Language, Psycholinguistics 1, and Psycholinguistics 2.

Postgraduate Training: Bilingual Research Group

Current Postgraduate Research Students and Topics: Alice Doherty (grammatical gender and anaphor resolution); Taoli Zhang, (automatic word activation in a first language in second language processing); Emily Coderre (stroop interference in L1 and L2 and bilingual/monolingual cognitive control); Marie-Josée Bison (implicit second language learning); and David Allen (Japanese-English cognate processing).

Completed Postgraduate Research Students and Topics: Dr. Anna Siyanova (representation and processing of multi-word units) to completion of her PhD. Anna currently has a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

Research Summary

My research investigates language representation and processing using behavioral measures, eye-tracking, and EEG. Much of my research addresses how representation and processing in one language is… read more

Selected Publications

• CONKLIN, K. and SCHMITT, N., 2012. The processing of formulaic language. In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Cambridge University Press. (In Press.)
• ZHANG, T., VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B. and CONKLIN, K., 2011. Fast automatic translation and morphological decomposition in Chinese-English bilinguals Psychological Science. 22(10), 1237-1242
• SIYANOVA-CHANTURIA, A., CONKLIN, K. and VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B., 2011. Seeing a phrase "time and again" matters: The role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multi-word sequences Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 37(3), 776-784
• SIYANOVA-CHANTURIA, A., CONKLIN, K. and SCHMITT, N., 2011. Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and nonnative speakers Second Language Research. 27(2), 251-272

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Current Research

My research investigates language representation and processing using behavioral measures, eye-tracking, and EEG. Much of my research addresses how representation and processing in one language is influenced by knowledge of another language. My research has implications for models of both monolingual and bilingual word recognition, models of sentence processing, and language learning. The following highlight some of my current research projects: (1) grammatical gender and anaphor resolution in English, French, and Chinese; (2) representation and processing of multi-word units (e.g., idioms and binomials); (3) representation and processing of cognates, interlingual homographs and homophones; (4) automatic word activation in a first language and second language, and bilingual/monolingual cognitive control; and (5) and implicit second language learning.

You can view my video 'The Eyes Trackers' on YouTube or my podcast about '2nd Language Processing'

I currently supervise the following PhD students: Alice Doherty (grammatical gender and anaphor resolution); Taoli Zhang, (automatic word activation in a first language in second language processing); Emily Coderre (stroop interference in L1 and L2 and bilingual/monolingual cognitive control); Marie-Josée Bison (implicit second language learning); and David Allen (Japanese-English cognate processing). I have also supervised Dr. Anna Siyanova (representation and processing of multi-word units) to completion of her PhD. Anna currently has a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

• BISSON, M.-J., VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B., CONKLIN, K. and TUNNEY, R.J., 2012. Processing of native and foreign language subtitles in films: An eye-tracking study Applied Psycholinguistics. (In Press.)
• CONKLIN, K. and SCHMITT, N., 2012. The processing of formulaic language. In: Annual Review of Applied Linguistics Cambridge University Press. (In Press.)
• SIYANOVA-CHANTURIA, A., CONKLIN, K. and VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B., 2011. Seeing a phrase "time and again" matters: The role of phrasal frequency in the processing of multi-word sequences Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 37(3), 776-784
• SIYANOVA-CHANTURIA, A., CONKLIN, K. and SCHMITT, N., 2011. Adding more fuel to the fire: An eye-tracking study of idiom processing by native and nonnative speakers Second Language Research. 27(2), 251-272
• CODERRE, E., CONKLIN, K. and VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B., 2011. Electrophysiological measures of conflict detection and resolution in the Stroop task Brain Research. 1413(21), 51-59
• ZHANG, T., VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B. and CONKLIN, K., 2011. Fast automatic translation and morphological decomposition in Chinese-English bilinguals Psychological Science. 22(10), 1237-1242
• VAN HEUVEN, W.J.B., CONKLIN, K., CODERRE, E., GUO, T. and DIJKSTRA, T., 2011. The influence of cross-language similarity on within- and between-language Stroop effects in trilinguals Frontiers in Psychology. 2(374), 1-15
• KOENIG, J.-P, MAUNER, G, BIENVENUE, B and AND CONKLIN, K., 2008. What with? The Anatomy of a (Proto)-Role Journal of Semantics. 25, 175-220 (In Press.)
• CONKLIN, K. AND SCHMITT, N., 2008. The processing advantage of formulaic sequences Applied Linguistics. 29, 72-89 (In Press.)
• CONKLIN, K. and MAUNER, G., 2005. Bilingual semantic acess of homographs. In: COHEN, J., MCALISTER, K.T., ROLSTAD, K. and MACSWAN, J., eds., ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism Cascadilla Press. 552-569
• CONKLIN, K., KOENIG, J.-P. and MAUNER, G., 2004. The role of specificity in the lexical encoding of participants Brain and Language. 90(1-3), 221-230