• Psycholinguistics,
• Bilingualism & bi-dialectalism
• Language acquisition
• Language processing
• Cognitive processing & development
• Pragmatics
• Cognitive neuroscience: electroencephalogram (EEG) & event-related potentials

2015: PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

PhD thesis title: The Effects of Childhood Bilingualism and Bilectalism on Executive Control and Implicature Understanding.

2009: MA Linguistics, University College London

Department of Linguistics

2008: Ptychion (equivalent to BA (Hons)) in Greek Literature with a specialisation in Linguistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Faculty of Philology, Department of Linguistics

Postdoctoral researcher

Cyprus University of Technology

Duration: July 2022-Present

Teaching fellow

Cyprus University of Technology

Duration: January 2021-Present

Visiting Assistant Professor

Cyprus University of Technology

Duration: September 2020-December 2020

Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow

University of Cyprus

Duration: 2017-2020

Wiener-Anspach postdoctoral fellow

Université libre de Bruxelles

Duration: 2015-2016

Postdoctoral Research Associate

University of Cambridge

Duration: 2014-2015

Journal Publications (peer-reviewed)

Published

1. Antoniou, K. (2023). The ups and downs of bilingualism: Α review of event-related potential studies on executive control. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
2. Duñabeitia, J. A., Baciero, A., Antoniou, K., Antoniou, M., Ataman, E., Baus, C., ... & Pliatsikas, C. (2022). The multilingual picture database. Scientific data, 9, 1-6.
3. Antoniou, K. (2022). Multilingual and Bi-dialectal Irony Processing. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: Curran Associates, Inc.
4. Antoniou, K. & Milaki, E. (2021). Irony comprehension in bidialectal speakers. The Modern Language Journal, 105, 697-719.
5. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (2020). How does childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism affect the interpretation and processing of different types of implicature? Bilingualism, Language and Cognition, 23, 186-203. doi:10.1017/S1366728918001189.
6. Deliens, G., Antoniou, K., Clin, E., Ostashchenko, E., & Kissine, M. (2018). Context, facial expression and prosody in irony processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 99, 35-48.
7. Veenstra, A., Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., & Kissine, M. (2018). Resisting attraction: Individual differences in executive control are associated with subject–verb agreement errors in production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 1242-1253.
8. Antoniou, K., & Katsos, N. (2017). The effect of childhood multilingualism and bilectalism on implicature understanding. Applied Psycholinguistics, 38, 787-833.
9. Deliens, G., Antoniou, K., Clin, E., & Kissine, M. (2017). Perspective-taking and frugal heuristics: evidence from sarcasm detection. Journal of Pragmatics, 119, 33-45.
10. Antoniou, K., Grohmann, K., Kambanaros, M., & Katsos, N. (2016). The effect of childhood bilectalism and multilingualism on executive control. Cognition, 149, 18-30.

Peer-reviewed chapters

1. Antoniou, K. & Michaelides, O. (2023). The acquisition and processing of pragmatics in multilinguals and third language learners. In J. Cabrelli, A. Chaouch-Orozco, J. G. Alonso, S. M. Pereira Soares, E. Puig-Mayenco, and J. Rothman (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Third Language Acquisition and Processing. Cambridge University Press.
2. Petinou, K., Antoniou, K. & Christopoulou, M. (2023). Addressing multicultural and multilingual aspects in the assessment of individuals with ASD. In M. Bortz (Ed.), A Guide to Global Language Assessment: a life span approach (pp. 36-56). Slack Publications.
3. Antoniou, K. (2023). Multilingual Pragmatics. In C. A. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (2nd edition). Oxford: Blackwell/Wiley.
4. Σπανούδης, Γ. & Αντωνίου, Κ. (2022). Αναπτυξιακή Γλωσσική Διαταραχή: Μελετώντας την αλληλεπίδραση της γλώσσας με τις γνωστικές διεργασίες. [Developmental Language Disorder: Investigating the interaction between language and cognitive functions] Στο Σταυρακάκη Σ. (Επιμ.), Γλωσσικές και γνωστικές λειτουργίες στις αναπτυξιακές και επίκτητες διαταραχές (σσ. 241-258). Αθήνα: Ιατρικές Εκδόσεις ΒΗΤΑ.
5. Antoniou, K. (2019). Multilingual pragmatics: Implicature comprehension in adult L2 learners and multilingual children. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition (pp. 495-510). New York: Routledge.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

1. Antoniou, K. (2022). Multilingual and Bi-dialectal Irony Processing. In Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. New York: Curran Associates, Inc.
2. Antoniou, K. & Spanoudis, G. (2020). An investigation of the multilingual and bi-dialectal advantage in executive control. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2050-2056). New York: Curran Associates, Inc.
3. Antoniou, K., Veenstra, A., Kissine, M., & Katsos, N. (2018). The impact of childhood bilingualism and bi-dialectalism on pragmatic interpretation and processing. In Anne B. Bertolini & Maxwell J. Kaplan (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 15-28). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
4. Veenstra, A., Antoniou, K., Katsos, N., & Kissine, M. (2017). Agreement production in monolingual and bilingual children: The role of executive control. In Maria LaMendola & Jennifer Scott (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 706-717). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
5. Antoniou, K. & Katsos N. (2016). The cognitive foundations of pragmatic development. In Fabienne Salfner & Uli Sauerland (Eds.), Pre-proceedings of Trends in Experimental Pragmatics (pp. 10-17).
6. Antoniou, K., Grohmann, K., Kambanaros, M., & Katsos (2014). Is bilectalism similar to bilingualism? An investigation into children’s vocabulary and executive control skills. In Will Orman & Mattheux Valleau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 12-24). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Introduction to Linguistics

Issues in Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Language Development

Phonetics and Phonology

Speech and Language Rehabilitation Laboratory (TheraLab)

http://theralab.cut.ac.cy/

“Cyprus Research Award – Young Researcher” in the thematic area of Social Sciences and Humanities (for the 2021 calendar year) awarded by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation