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Cambridge Language Sciences

Interdisciplinary Research Centre
 

Biography

I strive to take an interdisciplinary perspective in my research. My work is guided by this broad question: How does socio-cultural experience shape cognition and the way we use language?

I have looked at this question(and continue to examine it) from multiple perspectives - from how grandparents' sociolinguistic context influences intergeneration language transmission, to how biculturalism influences bilingual's domain general processing.

I enjoy blurring the line between psycho- and socio- linguistics.

Research

Bilingualism and multilingualism (cognition, language acquisition, multilingualism across the lifespan)

Cross cultural psychology, multiculturalism

Executive functions

Anthropology

Language policy

Publications

Key publications: 

Xie, W., Altarriba, J, & Ng, B.C. (2022). Bilingualism, Culture and Executive Functions – Is there a relationship?. Languages, 7(4), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7040247 

Cavallaro, F., Tan, Y.K., Xie, W., & Ng, B.C. (In press). Language Practices and Policies of Singaporean-Japanese Families in Singapore. Journal of Pragmatics.

Xie, W., Ng, B. C. & Cavallaro, F. (2021). Living in harmony: Intergenerational negotiation of Family Language Policy. Language and Communication, 82, 8-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2021.11.004 

Xie, W., & Cavallaro, F. (2016). Attitudes towards Mandarin–English bilingualism: A study of Chinese youths in Singapore. Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, 37(6), 628-641.

 

Other Professional Activities

Scientific Committee for the Mouton Handbook of Language and Emotion (expected publication: 2023)

Ad hoc reviewer: Language and Speech, International Journal of Bilingualism

Graduate Student

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Cambridge Language Sciences is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Our virtual network connects researchers from five schools across the university as well as other world-leading research institutions. Our aim is to strengthen research collaborations and knowledge transfer across disciplines in order to address large-scale multi-disciplinary research challenges relating to language research.

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