group which collected the Bangor Talk corpora. His research focus is language
change in bilingual settings, particularly focusing on Welsh.
Susi Davies gained a BA degree in Celtic Studies in Aber ystw yth University,
before completing an MA in Applied Linguistics at Bangor University. Her
research interests include language acquisition and bilingualism, particularly
among minority language speakers of Celtic languages and in German. She
is a native speaker of German and is fluent in Welsh.
Margaret Deuchar is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at Bangor University.
She was founding Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism
in Theory and Practice at Bangor University. Her research interests focus on
evaluating the relative merits of contrasting theories of code-switching and
the role of linguistic and extralinguistic factors in influencing code-switching
patterns.
Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole holds a position as Professor of Linguistics
at Florida International University, following her position as Professor of
Child Language in the School of Psychology, Bangor University. She was
Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and
Practice, and was Head of the Experimental-Developmental Research Group
in the Centre. Her current work focuses on the acquisition of morphosyntax
in monolinguals and bilinguals, the interaction of language and cognition in
development, cognitive effects of bilingualism, and the proper assessment of
linguistic and nonlinguistic abilities in bilingual children.
Jon Herring was Research Officer at the ESRC Centre for Research on
Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University. His PhD was on
lexical knowledge representation and the structure of orthography in French
verbs. After leaving Bangor, he became a researcher on the Voices of the UK
project at the British Library, and then on the West Midlands Speech and
Society project at Aston University. He is currently training to be a Speech
and Language Therapist.
Noriko Hoshino is Associate Professor of English at Kobe City University
of Foreign Studies. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees in cognitive
psychology from the Pennsylvania State University and was formerly
Research Officer at the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory
and Practice, Bangor University. Her research uses cognitive and cognitive
neuroscience approaches to study production and comprehension in profi-
cient bilinguals and second language learners.
Danna Leanne Jones is a former student at the Centre for Speech and
Language Therapy, Cardiff Metropolitan University. She now works as a
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