msantesteban@ed.ac.uk Room: UG44 Telephone: +44 0131 6503433
Research Interests: Lexical and syntactic representation on both monolingual and bilingual speakers; Bilingual Language selection mechanisms.
I received my B.A.
degree in Basque Philology from the University of
the Basque Country in 1999. In that year I enrolled in the “Linguistics” PhD
program at the University of the Basque Country, where I received my MA in
2003. In 2000 I was awarded a PhD fellowship from the Basque Government and I
enrolled in the “Language and Cognitive
Science” PhD program at the University of Barcelona, where I received my
PhD in Psychology in 2006 with the thesis entitled “Lexical
representation and selection on bilingual speech production”. In that year I
started my post-doctoral career at the “Language
Cognition and Communication Research Group” of the Department of Psychology (University
of Edinbugh), funded by the Spanish Government. In 2007 I was awarded a Marie
Curie Research Fellowship.
My resarch is focused
on the cognitive mechanisms and representations involved in the process of language
production. I approach these issues by means of experimental methods, both with
monolingual and bilingual participants, and in both monologue and dialogue
contexts.
(my
current CV, Feb2009)
Publications
Santesteban, M., Pickering, M.J., Branigan, H., & Laka, I. (in preparation). Encoding subject-verb and object-verb agreement in language production: Evidence from Basque.
Santesteban, M., McLean, J., & Pickering, M.J. (in preparation). Phonological activation affects syntactic structure selection during sentence production: Evidence from homophones.
Strijkers, K., Costa, A.,
Santesteban, M., Escera, C., & Hartsuiker, R.J.
(in preparation) Electrophysiological Correlates of Language Control in
Bilingual Speech Production. Journal of
Cognitive Neuroscience.
Costa, A., Albareda, B., & Santesteban, M. (2008). Assessing the presence of lexical competition across languages: Evidence
from the Stroop Task. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 11(1), 121-131. PDF
Santesteban, M. (2006). Lexical Representation and Selection on Bilingual Speech
Production. Unpublished PhD Thesis, Universitat
de Barcelona. PDF
Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Ivanova, I. (2006). How do highly
proficient bilinguals control their lexicalization process? Inhibitory and
Language-Specific Selection mechanisms are both functional. Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 32, 1057-1074. PDF
Santesteban, M. & Costa, A. (2006). Does L1 syntax affect L2
processing? A study with highly proficient early bilinguals.
In Beatríz Fernández
& Itziar Laka (eds.) Andolin gogoan.
Essays in honour of Professor Eguzkitza. EHUko argitalpen zerbitzua,
Santesteban, M., Costa, A., Pontin, S., & Navarrete, E. (2006). The effect of word-frequency
on lexical selection in speech production: Evidence from semantic homogeneous
naming contexts. Cognitiva, 18, 75-84. PDF
Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2006). The control of speech production
by bilingual speakers: Introductory remarks. Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition, 9, 115-117. PDF
Costa, A., Santesteban, M., & Caño, À. (2005). On
the facilitatory effects of cognate words in bilingual speech production.
Brain and Language, 94, 94-103. PDF
Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Bilingual word perception and
production: two sides of the same coin? Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 8, 253. PDF
Costa, A. & Santesteban, M. (2004). Lexical access in bilingual
speech production: Evidence from language switching in highly proficient
bilinguals and L2 learners. Journal of Memory and Language, 50, 491-511.
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