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Yulia Kashevarova

I research multiple languages' interactions in real-time speech processing at the sentence and discourse levels in Russian-English-Swedish and Swedish-English adults, using psycholinguistic methods.

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Affiliation
Doctoral student at Department of Language Studies
Location
A, Humanisthuset, korridorerna HE2, HF2, HA2, HA1, HB1 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Through my research, I aim to understand how multiple languages interact in one multilingual brain or mind. I do so, using psycholinguistic methods and analysing real-time speech processing. So far, I have mostly worked with behavioural data, but I have also collected the EEG data. The target groups I am currently interested in are adult Russian-English-Swedish and Swedish-English speakers. My previous study (https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-217738) used an online experiment containing the Visual World Paradigm and testing whether lexico-semantic sentence context (top-down information) could modulate bottom-up cross-linguistic interference from two non-target languages (L1-Russian and L2-English) in L3-Swedish. I have observed significant L1-Russian effects on L3-Swedish even though the participants had been L3-immersed for several years. In my new research project, I am planning to continue researching cross-linguistic interactions at the sentence or discourse level, possibly using the eye-tracking and/or EEG methods. Along with the research work, I have also been teaching English, French, and Russian to students of all ages and in different countries. There is more details at my ORCID page: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3069-0407.