Eleni Zimianiti

Eleni Zimianiti is a Researcher and PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute's Language Development Department, supervised by Dr. Seamus Donnelly, Prof. Rogier Kievit, and Prof. Caroline Rowland. Her work focuses on individual differences in language development, integrating cognitive and linguistic methodologies.

Education:

• Bachelor's in Greek Philology (University of Ioannina, Greece)
• MA in Linguistics (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
• Research MA in Linguistics (Utrecht University)

Research Interests:

• Cognitive mechanisms in language acquisition
• Neurolinguistic impacts of dementia on language processing
• Statistical learning in complex auditory environments
• Morphosyntactic patterns in endangered languages like Griko

Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches, analyzing both experimental linguistic data and computational methods for understudied languages. No awards are explicitly listed.

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Max Planck Institute’s Language Development team, contributing to cross-disciplinary projects on language cognition.