Leticia Pablos Robles

Leticia Pablos Robles is an Associate Professor at Leiden University's Humanities Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), specializing in Experimental Linguistics with a focus on sentence comprehension, prediction in the brain, and processing of long-distance dependencies. Her work integrates syntax, semantics, and prosody to explore how linguistic structures are processed across languages like Basque, Spanish, Mandarin, Dutch, French, and English.

• PhD in Linguistics (University of Maryland, 2006)
• BA in English Philology (University of Deusto, 1999)

Her research employs event-related potentials (ERPs), eye-tracking, and self-paced reading to analyze language comprehension. She investigates:

• Syntactic processing (e.g., clitic left dislocation, wh-dependencies)
• Syntax-semantics interface (e.g., Negative Polarity Items)
• Syntax-prosody interface (e.g., Wh-in-situ questions)
• Cognitive control in bilingualism and code-switching

Recent publications highlight trends in cross-linguistic interference, bilingual reading, and ERP-based syntactic validation. She also contributes to replication studies and statistical methodology in linguistics.

Scientific Awards:

• Teaching Excellence Award, University of Maryland (2002)
• Basque Government Post-doctoral Grant (2006-2008)
• Basque Government Pre-doctoral Grant (2002-2006)

She supervises PhD candidates Zhenlin Chen and Ou Ourilige, and collaborates with projects like BRAINGLOT (Bilingualism and Cognitive Neuroscience). Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and experimental validation, emphasizing the competence-performance dichotomy.