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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics @cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · Jul 11

The first volume to bring together state-of-the-art studies on language development in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh.

The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now

#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky

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Cover of The Acquisition of Celtic Languages

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Jun 18

Big news! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

Big news! - Bilingualism in The Brain

I can share the news that, with effect from August the 1st, I have been promoted to full Professor at the University of Reading School of Psychology and Clinical Language...Read More >

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Jun 8

On my way to San Sebastian to attend the International Symposium on Bilingualism #ISB15! I look forward to a week of inspiration, and to reuniting with (many!) good friends and colleagues! While we're at it, don't forget to attend our symposium on bilingualism and the brain,Monday at 11.35, Room 9 😉

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celm-uor.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social · Jun 4

The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) at the University of Reading, UK, is delighted to announce that the 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC 2026) will be held from June 18th-19th, 2026 at the University of Reading, UK isbpac.info

International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children – 6th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · May 2

New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

New paper: A protocol to study multilingual patients with progressive neurological diseases - Bilingualism in The Brain

Pliatsikas, C., Antoniou, M., Duñabeitia, J. A., & Calabria, M. (2025). A comprehensive protocol to study the effects of multilingualism on cognition and the brain in patients with progressive neurolo...

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Marco Calabria @marcocalabria.bsky.social · Apr 29

🧠 📚 Looking for a hashtag #protocol to assess the effects of #multilingualism on #cognition and the #brain in #neurological diseases? Check out our paper with a wonderful team of experts @christoslab.bsky.social Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Mark Antoniou! 👏 👏
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A comprehensive protocol to study the effects of multilingualism on cognition and the brain in patients with progressive neurological diseases

Multilingualism, the cognitively demanding experience of speaking multiple languages, has been linked to measurable effects on cognition and brain str…

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celm-uor.bsky.social @celm-uor.bsky.social · Mar 31

Our seminar this week (Thursday 1pm UK time) is a talk by Prof Elinor Saiegh-Haddad on "Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications". All welcome to attend online - you can register here: research.reading.ac.uk/celm/literac...

Literacy acquisition in Arabic diglossia: Psycholinguistic findings and educational implications. - Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 28

Native speakers of Albanian and Romanian are sought for online naming experiment- and they will receive a £10 Amazon voucher for their participation! See links below for details and signup form:

Albanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

Romanian: research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

Multipic information sheet- Albanian - Bilingualism in The Brain

Titulli i studimit: Baza e të dhënave të figurave shumëgjuhëshe (Multipic) FLETË INFORMATIVE PËR PJESËMARRËSIN Do të ishim mirënjohës nëse mund të na ndihmonit duke marrë pjesë në studimin tonë...Read...

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 25

... and here for the Assistant Professor posts jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Lectureships in Psychology:Whiteknights Reading UK

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 25

We are hiring! Looking to recruit one Professor and up to 3 Assistant Professors in Psychology/Neuroscience! Come work with us! See here for the Professor post: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... ...

UOR - Job Information

Find out the specifics of this job, what it does, and whether it's a fit for you.

https://jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=24256…

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 18

New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

New paper on the effects of ageing on speech abilities and brain volume in bilinguals, in NeuroImage - Bilingualism in The Brain

Yu, H., Kang, K., Pliatsikas, C., Zhou, Y., & Zhang, H. (2025): Age-related differences in speech and gray matter volume: The modulating role of multilingualism. NeuroImage, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage....

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 14

I'm thrilled and honoured to have been appointed the new director of the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism @celm-uor.bsky.social,one of the interdisciplinary reseach centres at the University of Reading, starting in August 2025! I look forward to new exciting projects, events and synergies!

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 14

Very big shoes to fill! Thanks a lot!

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 11

New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

New paper: The Galician Multipic; also, the Ukrainian Multipic norms are now available! - Bilingualism in The Brain

Álvarez de la Granja, M., Parafita Couto, MC., Sá-Leite., AR, Fraga, I., Duñabeitia, JA., Pliatsikas, C., Comesaña, M. (2025): The Galician MultiPic: a picture database that captures lexical variation...

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Mar 10

Second CAS workshop on using diversity in multilingual experience as a model to study neural plasticity research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab...

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Feb 27

Very excited to have been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Academy Research Project which will allow for the norming of our Multipic picture dataset in eight under-resourced/ minority languages! research.reading.ac.uk/christos-lab... @celm-uor.bsky.social

Grant success! - Bilingualism in The Brain

I am honoured to have received funding by the British Academy for an Academy Research Project which will allow us to expand Multipic to include naming norms in 8 under-resourced languages...Read More ...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Feb 17

Looking forward to this meeting on #language learning/individual differences in Chicago.. Thanks to @morganshort.bsky.social & Janet van Hell for organizing. Great speakers including @draehernandez.bsky.social, @christoslab.bsky.social, and many others. Wow..

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Cognitive Neuroscience of Individual Differences in Adult Language Learning: Future Directions | University of Illinois Chicago University of Illinois ...

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Dec 8

Really cool!

John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · Dec 8

1) I'd like to draw attention to, what I think, is a really cool finding! Recently I ran a meta-analysis looking at how #bilingualism affects the white matter of the brain. We found that bilingualism is selectively associated with higher fractional anisitropy in ...

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Dec 2

Join me in congratulating newly minted Dr Alex Sheehan, who just defended his thesis and passed with (very) minor corrections! Alex’s thesis was co-supervised by Prof. Doug Saddy, and examined by Prof. Ludovica Serratrice and Prof. Judy Kroll. Congrats Dr Alex!

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Nov 29

Our Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism is on Bluesky! Follow us! bsky.app/profile/celm...

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Eleonora Rossi @eleonorarossi.bsky.social · Nov 20

Join us #psynom24 for our affiliate meeting!Amazing speakers including @tvoits.bsky.social , Mira Goral and Ester Navarro.

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Nov 20

I'm back to old Blighty (and to reality) soon. Thanks to my colleagues at Western Sydney, especially Mark Antoniou, for hosting me. Till next time!

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Nov 20

My month-long visit in Australia is coming to an end; and what a month that was! Plenty of time to read, think and write, interesting discussions with colleagues from Western Sydney, MacQuarie and Queensland Universities, new projects planned, the SNL conference, and even kangaroo hand-feeding!

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Christos Pliatsikas @christoslab.bsky.social · Nov 16

Preprint alert from our lab! Bilingualism modulates domain-general functional connectivity: insights from EEG and artificial grammar learning doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Debra Titone @dtitone.bsky.social · Nov 13

Doing #bilingualism or #multilingualism research and wondering which lang background measure to use?

We examined if #language solidarity biased self-evaluation accuracy. doi.org/nrvz

Bottom line: %use self-evals were less biased than value-laden (how good am I?) self-evals.

%use wins, to us!

Self-evaluations and the language of the beholder: objective performance and language solidarity predict L2 and L1 self-evaluations in bilingual adults - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication...

People are often asked to self-evaluate their abilities, and these evaluations may not always reflect objective reality. Here, we investigated this issue for bilingual adults’ self-evaluations of lang...

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