dr. stanislava antonijevic-elliott 

Lecturer
Tel:  353-91-495623
Email:  stanislava.antonijevicnuigalway.ie

Background and Qualifications

Stanislava acquired her B.S. degree in Psychology at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia in 1993. Subsequently she undertook a taught and research masters degree programme at the University of Belgrade, which she completed in 1999. She acquired her doctoral degree in 2003 from the University of Belgrade, having undertaken her research at the University of Leipzig and the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany.

The first academic position Stanislava undertook in 1995 was at the University of Novi Sad. After acquiring her doctoral degree she worked at the Department of Psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich teaching undergraduate and Master degree seminars in experimental psychology. In Ireland Stanislava taught a general psychology course accredited by the Institute of Commercial Management (UK) at the Galway Cultural Institute during the academic year 2005/2006. At the same time she also worked as a contract lecturer for the Department of Psychology at NUI Galway teaching psycholinguistics for the undergraduate programme in the Speech and Language Therapy. From 2007 to 2009 Stanislava worked as a part time lecturer in the Speech and Language Therapy Department at the University of Limerick teaching on the Master degree programme. Currently, she is a lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, NUI Galway. Since 2007 Stanislava is a consultant for Children’s Progress Incorporated, New York, advising on educational assessment design.

Research Interests

Syntactic Characteristics of Verbs

In her doctoral thesis, Stanislava examined the syntactic characteristics of German verbs, in particular the number of complements and the number of complementation frames. Results indicated that the number of complements had an inhibitory influence on the processing of transitive verbs while the number of complementation frames facilitated verb processing. The influence of the number of complements, the number of complementation frames and verb lemma frequency were encompassed in a single measure of the informational complexity of verbs: the information residual (IR). Following from the work on syntactic characteristics of German verbs there is a line of currently developing research into syntactic characteristics of verbs in English and French. Given that in different languages verbs with the equivalent meaning can be combined with different syntactic frames, we are interested in the way those verbs are represented in L1 and L2, and in the process of their translation (in collaboration with Sarah Berthaud and Prof. Jane Conroy of the Discipline of French at NUI Galway).

Bilingualism

The use of both the English and Irish languages in Irish society and education offers the possibility of comparing the acquisition of both languages. Some children who grow up as monolingual English speakers are immersed into all Irish schools where during the first few years the exclusive medium of teaching is Irish. Native speakers of Irish are exposed to English through media from a very early age, and also through education later in life. All children educated through English learn Irish as a second language. We compare narrative production, use of grammar, code switching and intrusions in those different groups. This research is conducted within the Bilingualism Research Group. The group recently started collaboration with Dr. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin from Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge and secured scholarships for two PhD students awarded by An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG).

Language Impairments

There is a currently an ongoing examination of cognitive processes that underlie Developmental Language Impairments (DLI). We aim to gain an insight into the relations between noise exclusion in visual and auditory modality and language problems in subgroups of children with DLI. This work is being done within SLI Group.

Membership of Professional Associations

• National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Science
• Member of Association for Psychological Science

Teaching Responsibilities

Stanislava has direct responsibility for coordinating and teaching the following modules:

• Psycholinguistics
• Research in Health 2

She is also delivering lectures in the following modules:

• Clinical linguistics (Syntax)
• Cognitive Neuropsychology for the undergraduate programme in Psychology at NUI Galway
• Memory and Cognition for the undergraduate programme in Psychology at NUI Galway

Publications

Antonijevic, S. and Kostic, A. (2010). Do syntactic factors infuence processing of single verbs? The difference between complements and complementation frames. Manuscript under revision.

Antonijevic, S. (2000). The effect of category-size and experimental context on semantic congruity in semantic verification task. Psihologija, 1-2, 13-35.

Antonijevic, S. and Kostic, A. (1996). Visual field effects on the processing of inflected noun forms. Linguistic Abstracts, 12, 2.

Antonijevic, S. and Kostic, A. (1994). Visual field effects on the processing of inflected noun forms. Psihologija, 2-3, 259-279.

Editorials

Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C. & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Proceedings

Antonijevic, S., Knight, C., Dring, G., Lynch, D., Murphy, J., Boyle, M. & Elliott, M.A. (2009). Noise exclusion in visual and auditory modalities in children with language disorder. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C., & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C. & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Martyn, C., Antonijevic, S. and Elliott, M. (2009). Little evidence for impaired event-structure coding in language-impaired children. In Elliott, M.A., Antonijevic, S., Berthaud, S., Mulcahy, P., Bargary, B., Martyn, C., & Smidt, H. (Eds.) (2009). Fechner Day 2009. Proceedings of the 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Conference Presentations

Antonijevic, S., Kight, C., Dring, G., Lynch, D., Murphy, J., Boyle, M., and Elliott, M.A. (2009). Noise exclusion in visual and auditory modalities in children with language disorder. Fechner Day 2009: 25 ^th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics, Galway, Ireland: The International Society for Psychophysics.

Antonijevic, S. (1999). The Informational theory approach of processing of German verb forms. International Conference: Basic Mechanisms of Language & Language Disorders. University of Leipzig, Germany, September 1999.

Poster Presentations

Antonijevic, S. and Berthaud, S. (2009). Verbs of motion and sentence production in second language. Fechner Day, International Society for Psychophysics: 25th Annual Meeting, Galway, Ireland, October 2009.

O'Shaughnessy, C., Lyons, R., McMenamin, R., O'Malley, M.P., Antonijevic-Elliott, S., Logue-Kennedy, M. & Loftus, L. (2008). “Re-designing a curriculum to achieve integration and reflect the values of student and client centeredness: The NUI Galway Speech and Language Therapy Team’s experience”, at the National Academy for Integration of Research and Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL), Second Annual Conference in Waterford Institute of Technology, November 2008.

Antonijevic, S. and Galligan, O. (2008). Reliance upon L1 while acquiring L2 by attending education through L2. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 2008.

Berthaud, S. and Antonijevic, S. (2008). Syntactic frames: production and translation for English and French speakers. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October 2008.

Antonijevic, S., O’Malley, M.P., Mulhall, C. and Hayes, D. (October 2008). Intrusion of words and syntactic structures in production of L1 and L2 narratives in different age groups. International Conference: Models of Interaction in Bilinguals, Bangor, Wales, UK, October, 2008.

Antonijevic, S. (2008). Position of Complements and Complementation Frames within Lexical Representation of Verbs.30 ^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington DC, USA, July 2008.

Antonijevic, S. (2004). The influence of complements and complementation frames for verb processing. International Conference: Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany, January 2004.

Antonijevic, S. (2002). Measures of complexity for German verbs. International Conference: The Art of Reading. Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Munich & Rodin Remediation Academy, September 2002.

Antonijevic, S. (2001). Some factors that influence verb processing. International Conference: Fechner Day, International Society for Psychophysics: 7th Annual Meeting, Leipzig, Germany, October 2001.

Awards and Grants

An Chomhairle um Oideachas Gaeltachta agus Gaelscolaíochta (COGG) funded Studentships: €150,000. Starting date: October 2009.

IRCSET Studentship: € 72,000. Starting date: October 2008.

Millennium Fund/Small grants, National University of Ireland, Galway: € 3,900. Starting date: October, 2006.

Deutsche Akademischeaustauschdienst (DAAD: German Agency for Academic Exchange) research grant realized at the Max-Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig (Germany). Duration: 3 Months. Starting date: May 1997.

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