
About Us
The Child Bilingualism Lab is a research lab group in the School of Arts, Culture and Language at Bangor University. In this lab, postgraduate research students, led by , conduct research into various areas of childhood bilingualism, including:
- Acquisition and maintenance of languages
- Cognitive effects of bilingualism
- Bilingualism in individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions
- Experiences and considerations of childhood bilingualism by parents, education professionals, speech and language therapists (and others)
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A selection of recent publications from Child Bilingualism team is listed here, but for all the latest publications, please check individual pages linked above.
Day, R.H., Cooper, S., & Sanoudaki, E. (2025). Bilingualism in the preserved speech variant of Rett syndrome: A longitudinal case study. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1-20.
Sanoudaki, E., Awawdeh, M., Beauchamp, J., Caulfield, G., Collins, B., Cooper, S., Day, R., Maguire, L., Papastergiou, A., Parry, F., Ward, R., Williams, J. & Williams, M. (2024, December 23). Niwroamrywiaeth a dwyieithrwydd. Gwerddon Fach.
Ward, R., & Sanoudaki, E. (2023). Predicting language outcomes in bilingual children with Down syndrome, Child Neuropsychology, DOI:
Papastergiou, A., Sanoudaki, E., Tamburelli, M., & Chondrogianni, V. (2023). A study on the executive functioning skills of Greek–English bilingual children – a nearest neighbour approach. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 26(1), 78-94. DOI:
Papastergiou, A., Pappas, V. & Sanoudaki, E. (2022). The executive function of bilingual and monolingual children: A technical efficiency approach. Behav Res 54, 1319–1345.
Papastergiou, A. & Sanoudaki, E. (2022). Language skills in Greek-English bilingual children attending Greek supplementary schools in England, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25:8, 2834-2852, DOI:
Ward, R., & Sanoudaki, E. (2021). Bilingualism in children with a dual diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 35(7), 663–689. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2020.1818288
Ward, R., & Sanoudaki, E. (2021). Language profiles of Welsh-English bilingual children with Down syndrome. Journal of communication disorders, 93, 106126.
Williams, M., & Cooper, S. (2021). Adult New Speakers of Welsh: Accent, Pronunciation and Language Experience in South Wales. Languages, 6(2), 86. MDPI AG. Retrieved from
Almehmadi, W., Tenbrink, T., & Sanoudaki, E. (2020). Pragmatic and Conversational Features of Arabic-Speaking Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Examining Performance and Caregivers’ Perceptions. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, 63(7)
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