Mila Vulchanova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1848464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mila Vulchanova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mila |
| FAMILY NAME | Vulchanova |
| SIGNATURE | VULCHANOVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1299-9654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Living in a digital ecology: The impact on social interaction, learning, and language development
This introduction presents the contributions to the special issue "Living in a Digital Ecology: The Impact on Social Interaction, Learning, and Language Development." We address current directions in the field and provide a summary of the main topics covered, in addition to providing directions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Reading deficit and word decoding skills in first (L1) and second (L2) language
It has been suggested that both first and second language learning depends on the same underlying generic mechanisms, and when the language skills in the L1arecompromisedthis will likely have a negative influence on the second language systems (Ganschow et al. in J Learn Disabil 31(3):248–258, 1998). Furthermore, the results from a study focusing on reading words from a text (Farukh and Vulchanova in Usage Based Perspect Second Lang Learn 30:329–…
Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention
Twenty-five L1 Nepali speaking participants living in Trondheim, Norway who spoke English as L2 and Norwegian as L3 (late adult learners) participated in this study. Participants’ L2 proficiency was established as advanced in LexTALE. We administered language comprehension and production tasks in a trilingual design. In a mouse tracking trilingual parallel activation experiment, participants performed a language comprehension task in which they l…
The relationship between neural phase entrainment and statistical word-learning: A scoping review
Statistical language-learning, the capacity to extract regularities from a continuous speech stream, arguably involves the ability to segment the stream before the discrete constituents can be stored in memory. According to recent accounts, the segmentation process is reflected in the alignment of neural activity to the statistical structure embedded in the input. However, the degree to which it can predict the subsequent leaning outcome is curre…
Augmented reality-enhanced language learning for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic literature review
Augmented reality (AR) provides numerous opportunities for digitally-aided language interventions for autistic children. Educators and researchers have reported a variety of outcomes and insights about the use of AR as an educational and pedagogical tool. The unique advantage of AR suggests that it supports attentional behaviour, fosters emotional and social skills, and improves communication abilities in children with autism. However, the effica…
Author Correction: Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals
Color terms divide the color spectrum differently across languages. Previous studies have reported that speakers of languages that have different words for light and dark blue (e.g., Russian siniy and goluboy) discriminate color chips sampled from these two linguistic categories faster than speakers of languages that use one basic color term for blue (e.g., English blue). This effect has been reported to be disrupted when participants engaged in …
Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects
Aims and Objectives: This study explored the extent to which bilingual language exposure and practice might alter the way in which bilingual first-generation adult speakers use deictic demonstratives in their first language (Spanish) after immersion in a new language environment (Norwegian). Fully developed L1 systems are expected to be stable and less susceptible to change or restructuring than child systems. In addition, core domains of a langu…
Word learning in ASD: The Sensorimotor, the Perceptual and the Symbolic
Word learning requires successful pairing of form and meaning. A common hypothesis about the process of word learning is that initially, infants work on identifying the phonological segments corresponding to words (speech analysis), and subsequently map those segments onto meaning. A range of theories have been proposed to account for the underlying mechanisms and factors in this remarkable achievement. While some are mainly concerned with the se…
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Rethinking Figurative Language in Autism: What Evidence Can We Use for Interventions
Problems with the processing and understanding of figurative language have been systematically observed in individuals on the autism spectrum despite preserved structural language skills. In this qualitative review we discuss theoretical considerations of relevance for figurative language processing in neurotypical individuals and individuals with autism across the life-span. We address the factors which influence figurative language processing a…
Role of Subtitles in L2 Acquisition and Comprehension: A Pilot Study of Hearing-Impaired Students
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second language (L2) and, if so, which subtitles would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian as their first language. In total, 14 advanced learners of L2 English were recruited and tested on English comprehension and target vocabulary items based on video material provided with subtitles in English or Norwegi…
Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing
Spatial language difficulties reflect the structure of intact spatial representation: Evidence from high-functioning autism
Language and perception: "Introduction to the Special Issue "Speakers and Listeners in the Visual World
Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not from an over-arching theoretical perspective. Yet it has become clear that linguistic and perceptual interactions are essential to understanding both typical and atypical human behaviour. In this editorial, we examine the link between language and perception across three domains. Firs…
The interpretation of focused pronouns in Norwegian children and adults
Earlier research states that if an unaccented pronoun refers to the subject of the preceding sentence, a focally accented pronoun will refer to the object. In the current study, we tested whether Norwegian adults select the intended pronoun referent in this context. Our study is also the first one to use eye-tracking to investigate children's developing sensitivity to intonational cues in pronoun resolution, and consequently the first one where N…
Possessors in the Bulgarian DP
Incremental “Walls”
The present paper addresses the well-known alternation type “spray paint on the wall/ spray the wall with paint” which has received extensive attention in the literature. The discussion is based on Germanic data (English, German and Norwegian) and data from one Slavic language (Bulgarian). In trying to amend previous proposals (e.g. Tenny 1987, 1994, Jackendoff 1996) and resolve issues left open in those works, the current analysis suggests that …
Clitics in Slavic
In this paper I examine the rules for placement of clitics in a selected number of Slavic languages. I propose that the placement of argument clitics is dictated by a functional category, Finiteness, whereas for extended clitic chsters it is dictated by clause‐initial structure, analysed in terms of a construct preliminarily called FRONT. I argue that it is the language particular requirements on FRONT that determine the distribution of extended …
Clitics and the Completedness Parameter
This paper analyses phenomena of argument reduction with dative and reflexive clitics, as well as clitic doubling, in Bulgarian, arguing that both types of phenomena reflect values of what we call the Completedness Parameter, a cross-linguistically attested parameter involving a combination of diathesis and aspectual properties. For the representation of values relevant to this parameter, we introduce the construct of a (propositional) GESTALT, u…
Language and perception: "Introduction to the Special Issue "Speakers and Listeners in the Visual World
Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not from an over-arching theoretical perspective. Yet it has become clear that linguistic and perceptual interactions are essential to understanding both typical and atypical human behaviour. In this editorial, we examine the link between language and perception across three domains. Firs…
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals
Color terms divide the color spectrum differently across languages. Previous studies have reported that speakers of languages that have different words for light and dark blue (e.g., Russian siniy and goluboy) discriminate color chips sampled from these two linguistic categories faster than speakers of languages that use one basic color term for blue (e.g., English blue). This effect has been reported to be disrupted when participants engaged in …
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
Role of Subtitles in L2 Acquisition and Comprehension: A Pilot Study of Hearing-Impaired Students
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second language (L2) and, if so, which subtitles would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian as their first language. In total, 14 advanced learners of L2 English were recruited and tested on English comprehension and target vocabulary items based on video material provided with subtitles in English or Norwegi…
Clitics and the Completedness Parameter
This paper analyses phenomena of argument reduction with dative and reflexive clitics, as well as clitic doubling, in Bulgarian, arguing that both types of phenomena reflect values of what we call the Completedness Parameter, a cross-linguistically attested parameter involving a combination of diathesis and aspectual properties. For the representation of values relevant to this parameter, we introduce the construct of a (propositional) GESTALT, u…
Clitics in Slavic
In this paper I examine the rules for placement of clitics in a selected number of Slavic languages. I propose that the placement of argument clitics is dictated by a functional category, Finiteness, whereas for extended clitic chsters it is dictated by clause‐initial structure, analysed in terms of a construct preliminarily called FRONT. I argue that it is the language particular requirements on FRONT that determine the distribution of extended …
Incremental “Walls”
The present paper addresses the well-known alternation type “spray paint on the wall/ spray the wall with paint” which has received extensive attention in the literature. The discussion is based on Germanic data (English, German and Norwegian) and data from one Slavic language (Bulgarian). In trying to amend previous proposals (e.g. Tenny 1987, 1994, Jackendoff 1996) and resolve issues left open in those works, the current analysis suggests that …
Possessors in the Bulgarian DP
The interpretation of focused pronouns in Norwegian children and adults
Earlier research states that if an unaccented pronoun refers to the subject of the preceding sentence, a focally accented pronoun will refer to the object. In the current study, we tested whether Norwegian adults select the intended pronoun referent in this context. Our study is also the first one to use eye-tracking to investigate children's developing sensitivity to intonational cues in pronoun resolution, and consequently the first one where N…
Language and perception: "Introduction to the Special Issue "Speakers and Listeners in the Visual World
Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not from an over-arching theoretical perspective. Yet it has become clear that linguistic and perceptual interactions are essential to understanding both typical and atypical human behaviour. In this editorial, we examine the link between language and perception across three domains. Firs…
Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing
Spatial language difficulties reflect the structure of intact spatial representation: Evidence from high-functioning autism
Role of Subtitles in L2 Acquisition and Comprehension: A Pilot Study of Hearing-Impaired Students
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether subtitles can facilitate language processing in English as a second language (L2) and, if so, which subtitles would be more beneficial for hard-of-hearing students with Norwegian as their first language. In total, 14 advanced learners of L2 English were recruited and tested on English comprehension and target vocabulary items based on video material provided with subtitles in English or Norwegi…
Rethinking Figurative Language in Autism: What Evidence Can We Use for Interventions
Problems with the processing and understanding of figurative language have been systematically observed in individuals on the autism spectrum despite preserved structural language skills. In this qualitative review we discuss theoretical considerations of relevance for figurative language processing in neurotypical individuals and individuals with autism across the life-span. We address the factors which influence figurative language processing a…
Variation in first-generation L1 deictic systems: Language attrition and bilingualism effects
Aims and Objectives: This study explored the extent to which bilingual language exposure and practice might alter the way in which bilingual first-generation adult speakers use deictic demonstratives in their first language (Spanish) after immersion in a new language environment (Norwegian). Fully developed L1 systems are expected to be stable and less susceptible to change or restructuring than child systems. In addition, core domains of a langu…
Word learning in ASD: The Sensorimotor, the Perceptual and the Symbolic
Word learning requires successful pairing of form and meaning. A common hypothesis about the process of word learning is that initially, infants work on identifying the phonological segments corresponding to words (speech analysis), and subsequently map those segments onto meaning. A range of theories have been proposed to account for the underlying mechanisms and factors in this remarkable achievement. While some are mainly concerned with the se…
Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
The extent to which languages share properties reflecting the non-linguistic constraints of the speakers who speak them is key to the debate regarding the relationship between language and cognition. A critical case is spatial communication, where it has been argued that semantic universals should exist, if anywhere. Here, using an experimental paradigm able to separate variation within a language from variation between languages, we tested the u…
The relationship between neural phase entrainment and statistical word-learning: A scoping review
Statistical language-learning, the capacity to extract regularities from a continuous speech stream, arguably involves the ability to segment the stream before the discrete constituents can be stored in memory. According to recent accounts, the segmentation process is reflected in the alignment of neural activity to the statistical structure embedded in the input. However, the degree to which it can predict the subsequent leaning outcome is curre…
Augmented reality-enhanced language learning for children with autism spectrum disorder: A systematic literature review
Augmented reality (AR) provides numerous opportunities for digitally-aided language interventions for autistic children. Educators and researchers have reported a variety of outcomes and insights about the use of AR as an educational and pedagogical tool. The unique advantage of AR suggests that it supports attentional behaviour, fosters emotional and social skills, and improves communication abilities in children with autism. However, the effica…
Author Correction: Spatial communication systems across languages reflect universal action constraints
Active Language Modulates Color Perception in Bilinguals
Color terms divide the color spectrum differently across languages. Previous studies have reported that speakers of languages that have different words for light and dark blue (e.g., Russian siniy and goluboy) discriminate color chips sampled from these two linguistic categories faster than speakers of languages that use one basic color term for blue (e.g., English blue). This effect has been reported to be disrupted when participants engaged in …
Reading deficit and word decoding skills in first (L1) and second (L2) language
It has been suggested that both first and second language learning depends on the same underlying generic mechanisms, and when the language skills in the L1arecompromisedthis will likely have a negative influence on the second language systems (Ganschow et al. in J Learn Disabil 31(3):248–258, 1998). Furthermore, the results from a study focusing on reading words from a text (Farukh and Vulchanova in Usage Based Perspect Second Lang Learn 30:329–…
Trilingual parallel processing: Do the dominant languages grab all the attention
Twenty-five L1 Nepali speaking participants living in Trondheim, Norway who spoke English as L2 and Norwegian as L3 (late adult learners) participated in this study. Participants’ L2 proficiency was established as advanced in LexTALE. We administered language comprehension and production tasks in a trilingual design. In a mouse tracking trilingual parallel activation experiment, participants performed a language comprehension task in which they l…
Living in a digital ecology: The impact on social interaction, learning, and language development
This introduction presents the contributions to the special issue "Living in a Digital Ecology: The Impact on Social Interaction, Learning, and Language Development." We address current directions in the field and provide a summary of the main topics covered, in addition to providing directions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Linguistics (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Autism (4 works) · Autism Spectrum Disorder Research (4 works)