معرفی
Luca Onnis is a Professor at the University of Oslo, affiliated with the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. His research focuses on the distributional hypothesis, exploring how statistical structures in language shape acquisition and processing across the lifespan, with applications to bilingualism, cognitive science, and computational modeling.
- Education:
- M.A. in Translation Studies, University of Bologna, Italy
- Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Warwick, UK
His research integrates cognitive science, linguistics, and computational modeling to investigate: the role of statistical learning in language acquisition, caregiver speech adaptation, cross-linguistic differences, and social influences on language evolution. Recent studies examine syntactic priming, orthography-phonology consistency, and predictive mechanisms in language processing.
His publications span journals like Cognitive Science, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, and Cognition, reflecting interdisciplinary work with collaborations at MPI for Psycholinguistics, Cornell University, and Nanyang Technological University.
- Grants:
- European Research Council (ERC)
- U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Singapore National Research Foundation
He has founded and directed research laboratories, including the Centre for Second Language Research at the University of Hawaii and the Lifespan Research Centre at NTU Singapore. Currently, he serves as associate editor for the Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.
