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Kyriakos Antoniou

Kyriakos Antoniou

Assistant Professor

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences

kyriakos.antoniou@cut.ac.cy

25002154

www.kantoniou.com

CV



Dr Kyriakos Antoniou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehablilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a BA in Greek Literature (with a specialisation in Linguistics) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and an MA in Linguistics from University College London (UK). In 2015, he obtained a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (with a focus on psycholinguistics) from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral studies were mainly funded through a scholarship from the Alexander Onassis Foundation (Greece).

Prior to joining the Cyprus University of Technology, he held various research and/or teaching [...]positions at the University of Cyprus, the University of Cambridge (UK), the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), University College London (UK), and the Hellenic Open University (Greece).


  • Research Areas
  • Qualifications
  • Employment
  • Publications
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  • Research Areas
  • Qualifications
  • Employment
  • Publications
  • Teaching
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Research Areas

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

Qualifications

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

Employment

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

Publications

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.

Teaching

Introduction to Linguistics

Issues in Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Language Development

Phonetics and Phonology

Labs

Speech and Language Rehabilitation Laboratory (TheraLab)

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

Awards

“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

Kyriakos Antoniou
Τεχνολογικό Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου
Assistant Professor

Dr Kyriakos Antoniou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehablilitation Sciences, Cyprus University of Technology. He holds a BA in Greek Literature (with a specialisation in Linguistics) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece) and an MA in Linguistics from University College London (UK).  In 2015, he obtained a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (with a focus on psycholinguistics) from the University of Cambridge. His doctoral studies were mainly funded through a scholarship from the Alexander Onassis Foundation (Greece).

Prior to joining the Cyprus University of Technology, he held various research and/or teaching positions at the University of Cyprus, the University of Cambridge (UK), the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), University College London (UK), and the Hellenic Open University (Greece). 

Κύπρος
kyriakos.antoniou@cut.ac.cy
25002154

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