Bilde av Slabakova, Roumyana
Bilde av Slabakova, Roumyana
Adjunct Professor/Professor II Department of Language and Culture roumyana.slabakova@uit.no

Roumyana Slabakova


Job description

 I am Adjunct Professor II in the Department of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a core investigator in the Learning domain of C-LaBL. I am also a Full Professor and Chair of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at the University of Southampton, UK.


  • Marit Kristine Richardsen Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Full Transfer Potential in L3/Ln Acquisition Crosslinguistic Influence as a Property-by-Property Process
    Cambridge University Press 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Merete Anderssen, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova, Marit Westergaard :
    Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules
    International Journal of Multilingualism 08. October 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Fatih Bayram, Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Current Trends and Emerging Methodologies in Charting Heritage Language Bilingual Grammars
    Cambridge University Press 2021
  • Mariana Sokolova, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Processing similarities between native speakers and non-balanced bilinguals
    International Journal of Bilingualism 2021 DOI
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    L2 Knowledge of the Obligatory French Subjunctive: Offline Measures and Eye Tracking Compared
    Languages 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Second Language Acquisition
    John Wiley & Sons 2021 DOI
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    The Present Tense in English, Again
    Springer 2020
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Aspectual contrasts in the English present tense revisited: Exploring the role of input and L1 influence
    Pedagogical Linguistics 2020 DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    The Bottleneck Hypothesis Updated
    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Elena Shimanskaya, Roumyana Slabakova :
    L1-L2 differences in the L2 classroom: Anticipating Anglophone learners' difficulties with French pronoun interpretation
    Language Teaching Research 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Heather Marsden, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Grammatical Meaning and the Second Language Classroom. Introduction to the special issue of Language Teaching Research
    Language Teaching Research 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tania Leal, Roumyana Slabakova :
    The relationship between L2 instruction, exposure, and the L2 acquisition of a syntax-discourse property in L2 Spanish
    Language Teaching Research 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    “L” Stands for Language
    The Modern Language Journal 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    What attrites when and why: Implications of the Bottleneck Hypothesis.
    Oxford University Press 2019 DOI
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen, Roumyana Slabakova, Marit Westergaard, Bjørn Lundquist :
    The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English
    Second Language Research 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Laura Dominguez, Glyn Hicks, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Terminology choice in generative acquisition research: the case of “incomplete acquisition” in heritage language grammars
    Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2019 DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Back to our roots
    Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2018 DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Inflectional Morphology
    John Wiley & Sons 2018
  • Kara Morgan-Short, Emma Marsden, Jeanne Heil, Bernard I Issa, Ronald P. Leow, Anna Mikhaylova et al.:
    Multisite Replication in Second Language Acquisition Research: Attention to Form During Listening and Reading Comprehension
    Language Learning 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Research Timeline: L2 Semantics from a formal linguistic perspective
    Language Teaching 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Tania Ionin, Silvina Montrul, Roumyana Slabakova :
    The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax, and Semantics
    Routledge 2024
  • Roumyana Slabakova, Tania Leal, Amber Dudley, Micah Stack :
    Generative Second Language Acquisition
    Cambridge University Press 2020
  • Roumyana Slabakova, James Corbet, Laura Domínguez, Amber Dudley, Amy Wallington :
    Explorations in Second Language Acquisition and Processing
    Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2019
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Expressing genericity in L3 Norwegian.
    2024
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl :
    Acquisition of genericity in L2 English- The effect of multilingualism.
    2024
  • Marta Velnic, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl :
    Acquisition of genericity in L3: comparison of immersive and instructional settings
    2024
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl, Kjersti Faldet Listhaug :
    Form og betydning i generiske entallsformer i norsk
    2024
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Acquisition of gradient semantics in L3Norwegian -singular generic statements.
    2024
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl :
    Plural generic statements in L3 Norwegian.
    2024
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl :
    Singular generic noun phrases in L3 Norwegian.
    2023
  • Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova, Marit Westergaard :
    Subtractive language groups design – a new standard in L3A research
    2022
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen, Marit Westergaard, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Crosslinguistic Influence in Third Language Acquisition.
    UiT Norges arktiske universitet 2022
  • Marta Velnić, Roumyana Slabakova, Anne Dahl :
    Genericity in second third language acquisition
    2022
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Semantics
    Cambridge University Press 2021
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Merete Anderssen, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova, Marit Westergaard :
    Bilingual transfer across linguistic modules
    2021
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Does Full Transfer endure in L3 acquisition?
    Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2021
  • Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Full transfer in L2 and L3 acquisition: Wholesale or property-by-property?
    2019
  • Roumyana Slabakova, Merete Anderssen, Isabel Nadine Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard :
    L1 transfer in early L2 acquisition across linguistic modules
    2019
  • Marina Sokolova, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Evidence for Prediction-based Processing in Native and Non-Native Speakers of Russian and English.
    2019
  • Roumyana Slabakova, Merete Anderssen, Isabel Nadine Jensen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Marit Westergaard :
    Crosslinguistic influence in L3 Acquisition across linguistic modules
    2019
  • Marit Westergaard, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Full transfer in L3A: Wholesale or property-by-property?
    2019
  • Glyn Hicks, Laura Dominguez, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Choice of words matters, but so does scientific accuracy: Reply to peer commentaries
    Studies in Second Language Acquisition 2019
  • Isabel Nadine Jensen, Merete Anderssen, Natalia Mitrofanova, Yulia Rodina, Roumyana Slabakova, Marit Westergaard :
    Does L1 Transfer Explain Everything in L2 Acquisition?
    2019
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    Optionality and Ambiguity in L2 English Article Meanings
    2018
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    What does linguistics offer to language education?
    2018
  • Roumyana Slabakova :
    The Bottleneck Hypothesis and the language classroom
    2018
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Input and L1 influence: Aspectual tense morphology in L2 English, again
    2018
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Aspectual tense choice in native and L2 English: The effect of priming
    2018
  • Amber Dudley, Roumyana Slabakova :
    Exploring the role of feature reassembly and input: a study on aspectual development in L2 English
    2018
  • Marina Sokolova, Roumyana Slabakova :
    L3-sentence processing: language-specific or phenomenon-sensitive?
    2018

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    Research interests

    My research is grounded in generative linguistic theory and explores the second language and additional (L2/Ln) acquisition process. My theoretical focus is the acquisition of grammatical structure and its interaction with meaning. I use online and offline psycholinguistic methodologies to investigate the following theoretical issues: 

      * What is the linguistic nature of the bilingual and multilingual grammar?
      * Are there some properties of language (e.g. words, sounds, sentence structure) that are easier to acquire than others (e.g., functional morphemes, grammatical meanings)? Are there are some properties, such as pragmatic universals, that will come for free in the grammar of the learner?
      * Can lexical, phrasal and sentence meaning be acquired in the additional language? How does the interface between form and meaning affect the L2/Ln acquisition of meaning?
      * What is the effect of the native language in the acquisition of an additional language? What are the effects of the native and the second language in the acquisition of a third language?
      * How does linguistic and processing complexity affect knowledge of meaning in the L2/Ln? How do children acquiring their native language and adult L2/Ln learners compare in this respect?                                                            * How can knowledge of additional language acquisition improve classroom learning and instruction?

     


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