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Tania Ionin

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Contact Information

4112 FLB
MC-168
Urbana, IL, 61801

Professor, Linguistics

Research Interests

Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface

Additional Campus Affiliations

Professor, Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center

Highlighted Publications

Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2018). Focus on russian scope: An experimental investigation of the relationship between quantifier scope, prosody, and information structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 49(4), 741-779. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00288

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Recent Publications

Chen, C. Y., & Ionin, T. (2023). Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin. Second Language Research, 39(4), 941-968. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221103744

Ionin, T., Luchkina, T., & Goldshtein, M. (Accepted/In press). Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231178101

Ionin, T., Goldshtein, M., Luchkina, T., & Styrina, S. (2023). Who did what to whom, and what did we already know? Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20045.ion

Wu, M. J., & Ionin, T. (Accepted/In press). The Effect of Input Flooding and Explicit Instruction on L2 Acquisition of English Inverse Scope. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688231153759

Ionin, T. (2022). Semantics of Heritage Languages. In S. Montrul, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 668-690). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766340.030

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