Dr Ludovica Serratrice Laurea (Milan), MA (Essex), PhD (Edinburgh)

Photograph of Ludovica Serratrice

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics

Role

Associate Editor Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Associate Editor First Language

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

Secretary of the International Association for the Study of Child Language

Member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain

Member of the British Association of Clinical Linguistics

Teaching

In 2012-2013 I will be on leave thanks to a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

Biography

After training as an interpreter at SSIT ( Milan ), I completed a degree in English and French literature at IULM ( Milan ). I then went on to the University of Essex for an MA in Language Acquisition, and subsequently to the University of Edinburgh where I obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 2000.

I came to Manchester in 1999 to work with Gina Conti-Ramsden on a two-year ESRC project investigating the acquisition of verbs in children with Specific Language Impairment. I joined the former School of Education as a lecturer in 2002 and since 2004 I am part of the Division of Human Communication and Deafness where I teach on the BSc Speech and Language Therapy.

My research interests include first language acquisition with specific reference to Italian, English, and Spanish, childhood bilingualism, and the interface between syntax and pragmatics in monolingual and bilingual acquisition.

Collaborators and affiliated staff

Collaborators

Prof. Antonella Sorace

University of Edinburgh

Dr Evan Kidd

Australian National University

Dr Barbora Skarabela

University of Edinburgh

Dr Kirsten Abbot-Smith

University of Kent

Dr Anne Hesketh

University of Manchester

Publications

2013

  • Ludovica Serratrice. (2013). Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual development: Determinants and mechanisms. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 3(2), eScholarID:177721

2012

  • Ludovica Serratrice. (2012). The Bilingual Child. In Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie (Ed.), The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism. (pp. 87-108). Oxford: Blackwell. eScholarID:177707
  • Ludovica Serratrice. (2012). Acquisition of features in the nominal domain in bilingual acquisition. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(4), eScholarID:177711
  • Ludovica Serratrice. (2012). Individual differences in native speakers' competence: Implications for learning mechanisms and first language acquisition. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 2(3), 308-313. eScholarID:177709 | DOI:10.1075/lab.2.3.13ser

2011

  • (2011). The Use of Indirect Speech Clauses in a Narrative Context A Priming Study. Presented at Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston University: Cascadilla Press. eScholarID:115100
  • Kidd EJ, Stewart AJ, Serratrice L. (2011). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: The role of the referential scene in garden-path recoverye. Journal of Child Language, 38, 222-234. eScholarID:1d12237 | DOI:10.1017/S0305000909990316
  • Serratrice, L., Sorace, A., Filiaci, F. & Baldo, M. (2011). Pronominal objects in English-Italian and Spanish-Italian bilingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics, eScholarID:147782 | DOI:10.1017/S0142716411000543
  • Stewart, Andrew, Kidd, Evan, Serratrice, Ludovica. (2011). Children do not overcome lexical biases where adults do: the role of the referential scene in garden-path recovery. Journal of Child Language, 38(1), 222-234. eScholarID:150106 | DOI:10.1017/S0305000909990316

2010

  • S Nitschke, Kidd EJ, Serratrice L. (2010). First language transfer and long-term structural priming in comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25, 94-114. eScholarID:1d19688 | DOI:10.1080/01690960902872793

2009

  • Serratrice L. (2009). Carving up referential space: A priming account of pronoun use in Italian. eScholarID:2d2456
  • Barton, A., Bragg, J., Serratrice, L. (2009). 'Discovering language' in primary school: an evaluation of a language awareness programme. Language Learning Journal, 37 (2), eScholarID:1b5666 | DOI:10.1080/09571730902928029
  • Serratrice L, Sorace Antonella, Filiaci Francesca, Baldo Michela. (2009). Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity: Evidence from metalinguistic awareness. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(2), 239-257. eScholarID:1d16522 | DOI:10.1017/S1366728909004027
  • Sorace Antonella, Serratrice L, Filiaci Francesca, Baldo Michela. (2009). Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization: testing the linguistic intuitions of older bilingual children. Lingua, 119(3), 460-477. eScholarID:1d16523 | DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2008.09.008
  • Sorace, Antonella & Serratrice, Ludovica. (2009). Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development: Beyond structural overlap. International Journal of Bilingualism, 13(2), 195-210. eScholarID:74304 | DOI:doi: 10.1177/1367006909339810

2008

  • J.M. Pine, Conti-Ramsden GM, K.L. Joseph, Lieven EV, Serratrice L. (2008). Tense over time: testing the agreement/tense omission model as an account of the pattern of tense-marking provision in early child English. Journal of Child Language, 35, 55-75. eScholarID:1d15549 | DOI:10.1017/S0305000907008252
  • Serratrice L. (2008). The role of perceptual and discourse cues in the choice of referential expressions in English pre-schoolers and school-age children. Language Learning and Development, 4, 309-332. eScholarID:1d16004 | DOI:10.1080/15475440802333619

2007

  • Serratrice L. (2007). Null and Overt Subjects at the Syntax-Discourse Interface Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition. eScholarID:4d251
  • Serratrice L, Sorace Antonella, Francesca Filiaci, Baldo. (2007). Plural Noun Phrases in Late Simultaneous Bilingualism: A Study of English-Italian and Spanish-Italian Children. eScholarID:2d2073
  • Serratrice L. (2007). Cross-linguistic influence in the interpretation of anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in English-Italian bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition, 10, 225-238. eScholarID:1d8508

2006

  • Serratrice L. (2006). Referential cohesion in the narratives of bilingual English-Italian children and monolingual peers. Journal of Pragmatics, 39, 1058-1087. eScholarID:1d11259

2005

  • Serratrice L. (2005). Anaphora resolution in monolingual and bilingual Italian acquisition. eScholarID:2d2471
  • Serratrice L. (2005). Language mixing and learning strategy. International Journal of Bilingualism, 9, 159-177. eScholarID:1d8504 | DOI:10.1177/13670069050090020301
  • Serratrice L. (2005). The role of discourse pragmatics in the acquisition of subjects in Italian. Applied Psycholinguistics, 26, 437-462. eScholarID:1d8505 | DOI:10.1017/S0142716405050241

2004

  • Serratrice L, Sorace A, Paoli S. (2004). Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax-pragmatics interface: subjects and objects in Italian-English bilingual and monolingual acquisition. Bilingualism Language and Cognition, 7, 183-205. eScholarID:1d8506 | DOI:10.1017/S1366728904001610

2003

  • Ludovica Serratrice & Antonella Sorace. (2003). Overt and null subjects in monolingual and bilingual language acquisition. eScholarID:2d1899
  • Serratrice L, JosephK.L, Conti-Ramsden GM. (2003). The acquisition of past tense in preschool children with specific language impairment and unaffected controls: regular and irregular forms. Linguistics, 41 (2), 321-349. eScholarID:1d7713
  • Serratrice, L., G Conti-Ramsden, K Joseph. (2003). The acquisition of past tense in pre-school children with Specific Language Impairment and unaffected controls: regular and irregular forms. Linguistics, 41, 321-349. eScholarID:1b937 | DOI:10.1515/ling.2003.011

2002

  • Kate Joseph Ludovica Serratrice & Gina Conti-Ramsden. (2002). A comparative study of copula and auxiliary be in pre-school children with Specific Language Impairment and younger unaffected controls. First Language, 22, 137-172. eScholarID:1d8509
  • Rachel Hick Kate Joseph Gina Conti-Ramsden Ludovica Serratrice & Brian Faragher. (2002). Vocabulary profiles of children with specific language impairment. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, eScholarID:1d8507
  • Serratrice L. (2002). Overt subjects in English: evidence for the marking of person in one English-Italian bilingual child. Journal of Child Language, 29, 1-29. eScholarID:1d8503 | DOI:10.1017/S0305000902005068
  • Serratrice, L. (2002). Overt subjects in English: evidence for the marking of person in an English-Italian bilingual child. Journal of Child Language, 29, 327-355. eScholarID:1b938 | DOI:10.1017/S0305000902005068
  • Serratrice, L., G Conti-Ramsden, K Joseph. (2002). Development of copula and auxiliary BE in children with Specific Language Impairment and younger unaffected controls. First Language, 22, 137-172. eScholarID:1b939
  • Serratrice, L., G Conti-Ramsden, R Hick, K Joseph. (2002). Vocabulary profiles of children with Specific Language Impairment. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 18, 165-180. eScholarID:1b936 | DOI:10.1191/0265659002ct233oa

2001

  • Serratrice L. (2001). The emergence of verbal morphology and the lead-lag pattern issue in bilingual acquisition. In J. Cenoz & F. Genesee (Eds.): eScholarID:4d257
  • Serratrice, L. (2001). The emergence of verbal morphology: an English-Italian case study. In Cenoz, J. Genesee, F (Ed.), Trends in Bilingual Acquisition. John Benjamins. eScholarID:3b449