Inés Antón-Méndez
Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Cognitive and Social Sciences
Contact
| Email: | iantonm2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Arts (E11) 150 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3765 (or +61 2 6773 3765 overseas) |
After completing a BS in Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and working as a virologist in several countries, I changed direction to pursue a graduate degree in Cognitive Psychology (main focus on Psycholinguistics) at the University of Arizona. This was followed by a post-doc at Utrecht University (The Netherlands) right before coming to the Linguistics department at UNE.
I have taught courses in topics ranging from Tropical Medicine to Introduction to Psychology. More relevantly, I have taught Psychology of Language at Utrecht University for several years, First Language and Literacy Acquisition (LING464), Bilingualism, Education and Society (LING463), Second Language Acquisition (LING462), and Research Methods in SLA (LING461) at UNE.
Research interests
My main research interest is in language production in general. The focus of my present research is on the study of second language production and the interactions between first and second languages, as well as on the genetic basis of second language acquisition.
Research Projects Supervised or Co-Supervised
- Mark Conroy 'Syntactic priming and second language learning', PhD Thesis.
- Nathalie Wess, 'The relationship between individual differences in inhibition and second language proficiency', PhD Thesis.
Publications
Coventry, W., Antón-Méndez, I., Ellis, L., Levisen, C., Byrne, B., van Daal, V., Ellis, N., & Woodman, K. In Press. The etiology of individual differences in second language acquisition in Australian school students: A behaviour-genetic study. Language Learning.
Antón-Méndez, I. 2010. Whose? L2 English speakers’ possessive pronoun gender errors. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Biria, R., Ameri-Golestan, A., & Antón-Méndez, I. 2010. Syntactic priming effects between modalities: A study of indirect questions/requests among Persian English learners. English Language Teaching. 3(3), 111-119
Antón-Méndez, I., & Gollan, T.H. 2010. Not just semantics: Cognate and frequency effects on semantic association in bilinguals. Memory and Cognition. 38(6), 723-739
Antón-Méndez, I., & Hartsuiker, R.J. 2010. Morphophonological and conceptual effects on Dutch subject-verb agreement. Language and Cognitive Processes, 25(5), 728-748.
Antón-Méndez, I. 2010. Gender bender: Gender errors in L2 pronoun production. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 39, 119-139.
Franck, J., Vigliocco, G., Antón-Méndez, & I. Collina, S. 2008. The interplay between syntax and form in language production: A cross-linguistic investigation of gender agreement. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23, 329-337.
Nicol, J., & Antón-Méndez, I. 2008. The effect of case marking on subject-verb agreement errors in English. In W.D. Lewis, S. Karmi, H. Harley, S.O. Farrar (eds.), Time and again. Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics. In honor of Terrence Langendoen. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hartsuiker, R.J., Antón-Méndez, I., Roelstraete, B., Costa, A. 2006. Spoonish Spanerisms: A lexical bias effect in Spanish. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 32, 949-953.
Antón-Méndez, I., & Hartsuiker, R. 2003. Agreement errors and object attraction. In Advances in Psychological Research, vol. 26.
Antón-Méndez, I., Nicol, J.L., Garrett, M.F. 2002. The relation between gender and number agreement processing. Syntax, 5, 1-25.
Hartsuiker, R., Antón-Méndez, I., & Van Zee, M. 2001. Object attraction in subject-verb agreement construction. Journal of Memory and Language, 45, 546-572.
Awards
2006-10. Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Putting it into words: The processing of non-linguistic concepts for their linguistic expression.
1998. Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute. University of Arizona. Pronoun errors in second language.
1998. Graduate Student Final Project Fund. University of Arizona. Pronoun errors in second language.