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Elena Andonova

Address

Cognitive Science Department,

New Bulgarian University,

21, Montevideo St.,

Sofia, 1618,

Bulgaria

Phone: ++ 359 2 8110 403

eandonova@nbu.bg

Education

M.A. – English Philology (Linguistics), Sofia University

Ph.D. – School of English, Communication, and Philosophy, Cardiff University

Research Areas

Psycholinguistics (lexical access, grammatical gender, animacy, age of acquisition, sentence interpretation, idiom comprehension), discourse analysis, cognitive semantics, language acquisition, bilingualism, aphasia, gender differences.

Teaching Activities:

§ Graduate Seminar in Psycholinguistics

§ Language Development

§ Cognitive Linguistics

§ English Writing and Presentation

§ Psycholinguistics

§ Foundations of Cognitive Science

§ Introduction to Linguistics

§ Writing and Presentation in Science

Recent Research Grants

Comparative studies of language development and reading in four languages, Project Coordinator, Co-investigator, NATO Science Programme, Cooperative Science and Technology Sub-Programme, Collaborative Linkage Grant, 2001-2002
Developing New Tools for Research on the Language of Bulgarian Children, funded by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, Individual Research grant (principal investigator), 2000-2002
Crosslinguistic Studies in Aphasia (a joint project with Elizabeth Bates, UCSD) funded by the McDonnell Foundation, one of 4 Principal Investigators, 1996-2001

§ Assessment of the Dynamics of Brain Electrical Activity in Cognitive Processing of Sentences, Bulgarian National Science Fund, Project No. 806, 1999-2001, Consultant

§ Automatic Generation of Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe, INCO COPERNICUS, PL961104, 1998-1999, Consultant

Publications

Andonova, E., Tenbrink, T., & Coventry, K. R. (2010). Function and context affect spatial information packaging at multiple levels. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17(4), 575-580.

Andonova, E. (2010). Alignment of Spatial perspective. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2506-2511). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Andonova, E. (2010). Aligning spatial perspective in route descriptions. In: C. Hölscher et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Spatial cognition, pp. 125-138. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 3-642-14748-8 978-3-642-14748-7.

Tenbrink, T., & E. Andonova (2010). Communicating routes to older and younger addressees. In: Aspects of Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, SemDial 2010, 14^th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Poznan, Poland, June 16-18, 2010, pp. 155-158.

Tenbrink, T., Ross, R.J., Thomas, K.E., Dethlefs, N., & E. Andonova (2010). Route instructions in map-based human-human and human-computer dialogue: a comparative analysis. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing 21:5, 292-309. DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.07.001

Tenbrink, T., Ross, R.J., Andonova, E., & Goschler, J. (2009). Spatial Granularity and Perspective in Route Descriptions for Humans and Dialogue Systems. In: (Eds.) Tomko, M., Richter, K.-F., Adaptation in Spatial Communication. AGILE workshop on Adaptation in Spatial Communication, Hannover, Germany, (SFB/TR8 Report No. 019-05/2009). Universität Bremen / Universität Freiburg.

Andonova, E., & Coventry, K. (2009). Alignment and Priming of Spatial Perspective. In: (Eds.), Edlund, J., Gustafson, J., Hjalmarsson, A., & Skantze, G., Proceedings of Diaholmia, 2009 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Stockholm: KTH.

Janyan, A., Popivanov, I.D., & Andonova, E. (2009). Concreteness effect and word cognate status: ERPs in single word translation. In: (Eds.) Alter, K., Horne, M., Lindgren, M., Roll, M., von Koss Tolkildsen, J., Brain Talk: Discourse with and in the Brain. Lund: Media Tryck. (pp. 21-30).

Andonova, E., Tenbrink, T., & Coventry, K. R. (2008). Spatial Description, Function and Context. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 199-204). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Goschler, J., Andonova, E., & Ross, R.J. (2008). Perspective Use and Perspective Shift in Spatial Dialogue. In C. Freksa, N. Newcombe, P. Gärdenfors, & S. Wölfl (Eds.), Spatial Cognition VI: Learning, Reasoning, and Talking about Space (pp.250-265). Berlin: Springer

Janyan, A., & Andonova, E. (2008). Presentation modality in age of acquisition rating reflects mode of acquired knowledge: Evidence from category-specific effects. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1841-1846). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Tenbrink, T., Andonova, E., & Coventry, K. (2008). Negotiating Spatial Relations in Dialogue: The Role of the Addressee. In J. Ginzburg, P. Healey, & Y. Sato (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (pp. 201-208). London, U.K: Queen Mary University. ISSN 1470-5559, London, UK.

Janyan, A. & Andonova, E. (2007). Imagery facilitates access to the figurative meaning of unfamiliar idioms. Educação. Temas e Problemas, 4, 31-48.

Andonova, E., Gosheva, A., Janyan, A., & Schaffai, J.S. (2007). Second language gender system affects first language gender classification. In I.Kecskes & L. Albertazzi (Eds.), Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism (pp.271-299), Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.

Janyan, A. & Andonova, E. (2006). Word reading in Bulgarian children and adults. In R. Malatesha Joshi & P.G. Aaron (Eds.), Handbook of Orthography and Literacy (pp.275-290), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Andonova, E. (2006). On changing mental models of a wheelchair robot. In: K. Fischer (ed.), How People Talk to Computers, Robots and Other Artificial Communication Partners.

Andonova, E., Janyan, A., Stoyanova, K., Raycheva, M., & Kostadinova, T. (2005). Grammaticality judgment of article use in aphasic speakers of Bulgarian. In B. G. Bara, L. Barsalou & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 115-120), Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Nestor, A. & Andonova, E. (2004) Semantic Effects in Speech Production. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Andonova, E., D’Amico, S., Devescovi, A., & E. Bates (2004) Gender and Lexical Access in Bulgarian. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(3), 496-507

Székely, A., Jacobsen, T., D’Amico, S., Devescovi, A., Andonova, A., Herron, D., Lu, C. C., Pechmann, T., Pléh, C. Wicha, N., Federmeier, Gerdjikova, I., Gutierrez, G., Hung, D., Hsu, J., Iyer, G., Kohnert, K., Mehotcheva, T., Orozco-Figueroa, A., Tzeng, A., Tseng, O., Arévalo, A.L., Vargha, A., Butler, A.C., Buffington, R. & E. Bates (2004) A New On-line Resource for Psycholinguistic Studies. Journal of Memory and Language, 51(2), 247-250

Bates, E., D’Amico, S., Jacobsen, T., Székely, A., Andonova, A., Devescovi, A., Herron, D., Lu, C. C., Pechmann, T., Pléh, C. Wicha, N., Federmeier, Gerdjikova, I., Gutierrez, G., Hung, D., Hsu, J., Iyer, G., Kohnert, K., Mehotcheva, T., Orozco-Figueroa, A., Tzeng, A., & O. Tseng (2003) Timed Picture Naming in Seven Languages. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10(2), 344-380

Janyan, A., & Andonova, E. (2003) Visual Field Differences in Word Naming. Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 187-192

Popivanov, D., Janyan, A., Andonova, E., & M. Stamenov (2003) Common Dynamic Properties of Biosignals During Cognition: Self-Similarity and Chaotic Dynamics of Both Response Times and EEG During Movement Imagery. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, 7(4), pp. 315-328

Janyan, A. & Andonova, E. (2000) The Role of Imagery in Understanding Unknown Idioms. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 693-698

Andonova, E. (1998) Sentence Interpretation in Bulgarian: The Contribution of Animacy. Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 54-59

Stamenov, M. & Andonova, E. (1998) Lexical Access and Co-Reference Processing in Bulgarian. In D. Hillert (Ed.), Sentence Processing: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective, San Diego: Academic Press

Stamenov, M. I. & E. Andonova (1998) Attention and Language. In J. Verschueren, J.-O. Östman, J. Blommaert & C. Bulcaen (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Andonova, E. (1996) Topics in Cognitive Linguistics. In B. Kokinov (Ed.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science, vol. 2, Sofia: NBU Press

Bates, E., Wulfeck, B., Hernandez, A. & Andonova, E. (1996) The Competition Model: Implications for Language Processing, Language Development and Language Breakdown. In B. Kokinov (Ed.), Perspectives on Cognitive Science, vol. 2, Sofia: NBU Press

Selected Conference Talks and Abstracts

Andonova, E. (2005) The Contribution of Animacy to Sentence Interpretation in Bulgarian: Data from Non-aphasic and Aphasic speakers. Pionier Workshop on Animacy, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 19-20 May

Andonova, E., Gosheva, A., Janyan, A. (2005) Second-language gender system affects first-language categorization. Seminar on Bi- and Multilingualism and Cognition, Bolzano, Italy, 19-21 May

Andonova, E. (2004) The Business Perspective on Euphemizing Death. First International Conference on Critical Discourse Analysis, 5-8 May, València, Spain

Andonova, E., Janyan, A. (2004) Picture Naming in Bulgarian Children and Adults. 4^th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon. Windsor, Canada

Andonova, E., Janyan, A. (2003) Searching for Gender Congruency in Bulgarian. Annual International Conference in Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing. Glasgow, UK

Andonova, E., Stamenov, M. (1998) Lexical Access and Co-reference Processing in Bulgarian. The 11^th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Rutgers University, NJ, USA

Mailing address:

Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology,
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria

Tel.: (+359) 2-8110-401
Fax: (+359) 2-8110-421