Leticia Pablos Robles
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. L. Pablos Robles
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2106
- l.pablos.robles@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-6701-7817
My research interest is in the interdisciplinary fields of psycho and neurolinguistics. I am interested in the subconscious mechanisms present in the comprehension of phenomena on the syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody interface.
Research
I currently work in the NWO Project "Understanding Questions". This project is in charge of examining the anticipatory processes in the processing of wh-in-situ questions of Mandarin Chinese and French by investigating the prosodic characteristics of these constructions via their production and comprehension. To study these phenomena I use both behavioral techniques and electrophysiology and I have carried out fieldwork in France and China.
Fields of interest
- Processing of wh-in-situ questions
- Processing of syntactic dependencies
- Processing phenomena at the syntax-semantics and syntax-phonology interface
- Event-related potentials associated with linguistic phenomena
- Cross-linguistic sentence comprehension studies
- Second language sentence comprehension
- Code-switching
Teaching activities
2011-2013: Lecturer, Latin American Department, Leiden University.
2010 - 2011: Guest lecturer for minor in Brain and Cognition and Psycholinguistics modules, Psychology and Linguistics Departments, Leiden University.
2008-2009: Lecturer, English and German Philology Department, University of the Basque Country.
Curriculum vitae
2014-present: Post-doctoral Researcher in the NWO Vrije Competitie Project “Understanding Questions” at Leiden University.
2009-2013: Associate Researcher on the project "Understanding of parsing strategies in the completion of long-distance dependencies" at Leiden University.
2008-2009: Post-doctoral Researcher on the project “BRAINGLOT, Bilingualism and Cognitive Neuroscience” at the University of the Basque Country.
2006- 2008: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the project “Structural and Semantic Licensing of Negative Polarity Dependencies: evidence from Basque and Spanish” at the University of Reading.
2006: PhD Thesis “Pre-verbal Structure building in Romance Languages and Basque” in Linguistics at the University of Maryland.
Key publications
- Yoshida, M., Kazanina, N., Pablos, L. & Sturt, P. (to appear). Island Constraints and Online Dependency Formation Processes, Proceedings of North East Linguistic Society (NELS) 41.
- Pablos, L. (2011) 'Rich Agreement in Basque: evidence for pre-verbal structure building' in Yuki Hirose, Jerry Packard & Hiroko Yamashita. (Eds). Processing and Producing Head-Final Structures. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Springer: Dordrecht.
- Pablos, L. (2008) 'Filled-Gap Effects in Sentence Processing: different accounts compared', ASJU, Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International Journal of Basque Linguistics and Philology, Vol. 42, Nº. 1, pp. 309-332. ISSN 0582-6152.
- Pablos, L. & Saddy, J.D. (2008) 'NPIs and Complementizer Agreement in Basque' in Kai Alter, Merle Horne, Magnus Lindgren, Mikael Roll, & Janne von Koss Torkildsen (Eds.), Papers from Brain Talk: Discourse with and in the Brain. The 1st Birgit Rausing Language Program Conference in Linguistics. Lund: Lund University, Media Tryck. ISBN: 978-91-633-5561-5.
Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Yang Y. , Pablos Robles L. & Cheng L.L. (2023), The processing mechanisms of Mandarin wh-questions, Journal of Chinese Linguistics 51(1).
- Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn S., Gupta A., Pablos L. & Schiller N.O. (2023), When left is right: the role of typological similarity in multilinguals’ inhibitory control performance, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 26(1): 165-178.
- Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn S., Pablos Robles L. & Schiller N.O. (2022), Does your native language matter?: Neural correlates of typological similarity in non-native production, Lingue e Linguaggio 2022(1): 143-169.
- Glasbergen A., Gryllia S., Pablos Robles L. & Doetjes J.S. (2022), Scripted Simulated Dialogue: a new elicitation paradigm. 683-687.
- Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn S., Pablos Robles L. & Schiller N.O. (2021), Noun-phrase production as a window to language selection: an ERP study, Neuropsychologia 162: 108055.
- Von Grebmer Zu Wolfsthurn S., Pablos Robles L. & Schiller N.O. (2021), Cross-linguistic interference in late language learners: an ERP study, Brain and Language 221.
- Bosma E. & Pablos Robles L. (2020), Switching direction modulates the engagement of cognitive control in bilingual reading comprehension: An ERP study, Journal of Neurolinguistics 55: 1-12.
- Yang Y., Gryllia S., Pablos Robles L. & Cheng L.L. (2019), Clause type anticipation based on prosody in Mandarin, International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 6(1): 1-26.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J.S., Ruijgrok B.J. & Cheng L.L.S. (2019), Backward licensing of Negative Polarity Items in Dutch: an ERP investigation, JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS 51(August 2019): 96-110.
- Pablos L., Parafita Couto M.C., Boutonnet B., Jong A. de, Perquin M., Haan A. de & Schiller N.O. (2019), Adjective-noun order in Papiamento-Dutch code-switching, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 9: 710-735.
- Witteman J., Chen Y., Pablos-Robles L., Parafita Couto M.C., Wong, P.C.M., Schiller & N.O. (2018), (Pushing) the Limits of Neuroplasticity Induced by Adult Language Acquisition. Member of editorial staff Frontiers in Psychology 9.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J. & Cheng Lisa L.-S. (2018), Backward Dependencies and in-Situ wh-Questions as Test Cases on How to Approach Experimental Linguistics Research That Pursues Theoretical Linguistics Questions, Frontiers in Psychology 8: 2237.
- Pablos Robles L., Doetjes J.S., Ruijgrok B.J. & Cheng L.L. (2015), Active search for antecedents in cataphoric pronoun resolution, Frontiers in Psychology 6: 1-13.
- Yoshida M., Kazanina N., Pablos Robles L. & Sturt P. (2014), On the origin of islands, LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE 29(7): 761-770.
- Pablos Robles L. (2011), Rich Agreement in Basque: evidence for pre-verbal structure building. In: Yamashita H., Hirose Y., Packard J. (Eds.) Processing and Producing Head-final Structures. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics.. no. 38 Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York: Springer. 3-21.
- Pablos Robles L. & Saddy D.J. (2009), NPIs and Complementizer Agreement in Basque. In: Alter K., Horne M., Lindgren M., Roll M., Koss Torkildsen J. von (Eds.) Discourse with and in the Brain.. no. 1st Lund, Sweden: Media Tryck. 61-73.
- Pablos Robles L. (2008), Filled-Gap Effects in Sentence Processing: different accounts compared, Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo 42(1): 309-332.
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