About
Yourdanis' research lies at the intersection of psycholinguistics and syntax, with an emphasis on the study of bi/multilingual grammars. Her research program investigates the extent to which bilingual speakers’ cognitive representations of the syntactic structures of their two languages are interconnected. In doing so, she pursues an integrated, data driven approach to the scientific study of language by applying experimental methods to investigate both qualitatively and quantitatively the language knowledge and use of various bilingual communities, and extend these results to inform our theories. Her past and current work has dealt with these areas within the empirical domains of head movement and A-bar movement, and has used experimental tasks such as acceptability judgments, eye-tracking, and pupillometry to get both online and offline measures of processing complexity.
