Vicky Chondrogianni

Professor Vicky Chondrogianni holds the Personal Chair of Bilingualism and Language Development at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. She is affiliated faculty at CUNY Graduate Center's Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Her research focuses on first/second language acquisition, child bilingualism, psycholinguistics, and developmental language disorders. She has held positions at Bangor University, Aalborg University, and the University of Reading before joining Edinburgh.

Education: BA in Linguistics and Classics (University of Athens), MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics (University of Cambridge), PhD in Second Language Acquisition (University of Cambridge).

Research interests include cross-linguistic aspects of acquisition in typically-developing and impaired children, production/comprehension relationships, and cognitive-language interactions. She currently supervises PhD students in topics like morphosyntax in bilingual children and employs eye-tracking methods.

Grants/Projects: Includes studies on Gaelic-medium education, heritage children's eye-tracking data, and language disorders in multilingual settings. She has led over 20 projects since 2002, including work on Welsh-English bilingualism and L2 Greek acquisition.

Labs/Teams: Active in Bilingualism Matters, a research center promoting bilingualism awareness. Serves as Editor for Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism and holds roles in international associations like IASCL.