Luna Filipovic
Biographic Data
| ID | 981597 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luna Filipovic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luna |
| FAMILY NAME | Filipovic |
| SIGNATURE | FILIPOVIC L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9460-9797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Solving Transfer Puzzles: Multi-Factor Explanations
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This article proposes a multi-factor model of second language learning and bilingualism, CASP (an acronym for Complex Adaptive System Principles), which can help solve some puzzles in language transfer, involving when it occurs and when it does not. The key goal is to try to move the field beyond discussions that are focused on just one or two of the many factors of relevance (e.g., typological simi…
Bilingual language processing of evidentiality in a Turkish-English translation and judgment task: The effect of translator training
This study aimed to examine how two different factors, formal instruction in translation and location in an L2 country, affect the ways in which bilingual speakers process information when using multiple languages concurrently. The focus was on a linguistic property of evidentiality – the marking of the source of information about past events – as witnessed firsthand or obtained from another source (inference or hearsay). This distinction is gram…
Grammar and Applied Language Typology
This contribution introduces the framework of applied language typology (ALT). It focuses on certain typological contrasts between languages that pose difficulties in cross‐linguistic communication and in different practical contexts of language use. As such, ALT draws on many theoretical and applied linguistic insights about language contrasts at different levels of analysis (morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic) in order to help us…
The ‘Bilingualism Factor’ in Language Change: The Consequences of Language Contact Within and Across Bilingual Minds 1
Building on Uriel Weinreich's pioneering (1953) Languages in Contact and on Peter Matthews' insightful commentary on it (2006, this volume) this paper discusses the crucial role of bilingualism, and specifically different types of bilingualism, in understanding whether and how the initial changes at the level of Saussure's parole can eventually become changes in grammatical conventions, Saussure's langue , in one or the other language in contact.…
“I never said that”: Negotiating misunderstandings in police interviews
Police interviewers in England and Wales engage in the practice of investigative interviewing that is based on obtaining neutral, institutionally accepted account from suspects. This involves a process not only of eliciting information from suspects, but also of managing the interview by choosing topics for questioning, seeking clarification and additional details, and shaping the account to fulfil institutional requirements. Interviewers must th…
Better late than early: The effect of formal second language training on processing of evidentiality in Turkish-English bilinguals
This study aimed to investigate how bilingual speakers process information in a bilingual mode setting which was created using a translation production task. The target linguistic property was evidentiality. It is grammatical and obligatory in Turkish and lexical and optional in English. The stimuli consisted of simple declarative sentences which were varied based on the evidential meaning (firsthand vs. non-firsthand). Then participants judged h…
Bilingual advantage for memory of events: Why now you see it, now you don’t
One of the most important findings in relation to bilingual memory has been that of shared conceptual representation and memory storage. The paper in the original volume that is being honoured here was by Jeanette Altarriba. The present contribution shares and celebrates the themes discussed in that paper, and in the spirit of the current special issue, it also highlights something new about bilingual memory that we know now and that we did not k…
Interpreting Swearwords in Police Interviews and Perceived Offensiveness of Insults in the UK and Spain
Despite how damaging the consequences of an inadequate translation of swearwords might be, little attention has been paid to insults, in both academic research and interpreting training. The mistranslation of an insult can affect how the police officer perceives the severity of the punishable offence and makes a judgment about what kind of action is appropriate. This study includes two experiments. First, an interpreting experiment was carried ou…
Bilingualism-induced language change: What can change, when, and why
Contact between languages has become increasingly recognized as a major source of historical change, as linguistic properties are introduced from one language into another. Yet contact does not necessarily lead to such changes. In fact, arguably most of the properties that contrast between two languages in contact at a given place and time do not change. This paper argues that historical and contact linguistics should now look more systematically…
Prediction in SVO and SOV languages: Processing and Typological Considerations
In this study, we tested the possibility that different word orders engender different processing preferences. Our key hypothesis was that a head-initial language like English (SVO) allows more prediction compared to a head-final language like Japanese (SOV). In Experiment 1, English and Japanese native speakers completed a cloze task in which they heard a sentence fragment (SV_ in English and SO_ in Japanese) and had to complete it with the word…
Evidential meanings in native and learner Japanese and English: Implications for the assessment of speaker certainty
Evidentiality is a linguistic category that comprises forms and meanings related to the source of information in utterances, the use of which may impact judgments about the degree of certainty expressed by a speaker. The main dichotomy is first-hand (direct) vs. second-hand (indirect) evidence. This distinction is grammaticalised in Japanese only, though certain related meanings can be expressed in English lexically or constructionally. The relev…
Sequential Time construal is primary in temporal uses of Mandarin Chinese qian ‘front’ and hou ‘back’
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations
The aim of the study was to check whether minorities such as LEP/ZEP (limited/zero English proficiency) speakers can expect the same access to justice as competent English speakers in a majority language (US English) justice system. The main hypothesis is that, due to linguistic and cultural factors, the instances of miscommunication in the interrogation of LEP/ZEP suspects and witnesses will be more numerous than in the interrogation of the majo…
A Multi-Factor Approach to the Study of L2 Acquisition of Motion Verbs and Motion Constructions: Integration of Typological, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects
Talking about motion events in L2 is done in different ways by different speakers on different occasions. This is due to multiple factors, typological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic, which interact and play a role in L2 acquisition and use. These factors can sometimes lead the same types of L2 speakers to produce very different outputs and sometimes very different L2 speakers to produce the same or similar outputs. In order to capture this…
Lost in translation, apparently: Bilingual language processing of evidentiality in a Turkish–English Translation and judgment task
We investigated how bilingual speakers process evidentiality information in a dual language activation setting (Green & Abutalebi, 2013) using a translation production and confidence judgment task. Due to interaction of multiple factors in bilingual processing a multifactor model CASP ( Complex Adaptive System Principles ) for Bilingualism (Filipović & Hawkins, 2019) was used as a theoretical frame. Evidentiality indicates the source of informati…
First language versus second language effect on memory for motion events: The role of language type and proficiency
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: This research probes for language effects on witness memory in bilingual speakers whose languages are typologically distinct, English and Spanish. The key question is whether speakers’ memory for agentive motion events is influenced by first language (L1) or second language (L2) patterns, or both, when the L2 is used for descriptions. Design/methodology/approach: Four groups were tested in an event v…
Researching language and cognition in bilinguals
Aims: This article reviews recent research on the relationship between language and thinking in bilinguals. Approach: The paper reviews aspects of previous research, and links it to the articles in this special issue. Conclusions: Research on language and cognition in bilinguals requires both depth (in-depth investigations of one area in order to test approaches and methods) and breadth (investigations of a wide range of research areas). It shoul…
The tale of two countries: Police interpreting in the UK vs in the US
The aim of this research was to compare the quality of language services and of linguistic evidence obtained in UK police interviews and US police interrogations with suspects, witnesses and victims who speak little or no English and have to communicate via an interpreter. This is the first study of its kind based on substantial real-life data from both jurisdictions, which rely on different types of service provision. The data were annotated usi…
Bilingual memory advantage: Bilinguals use a common linguistic pattern as an aid to recall memory
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: The aim of this study is to probe for language effects on bilingual episodic memory. The main research question is whether both languages of bilinguals are accessible and used as aids to memory regardless of which language is used for speaking, or whether each language used for verbalization affects memory in a language-specific way. Design/methodology/approach: Our methodology involves an experiment…
Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions
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Evidence-gathering in police interviews: Communication problems and possible solutions
In this paper I discuss the many complexities that police officers have to deal with in their communication with suspects. Investigative interviewing is a very complex communicative situation in itself, with a number of different psychological and sociological variables at play during each interview. In addition, suspect interviews bring about an additional dimension of complexity, which is driven by the fact that a basic principle of conversatio…
The Complex Adaptive System Principles model for bilingualism: Language interactions within and across bilingual minds
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: We propose a model that captures general patterns in bilingual language processing, based on empirical evidence elicited in a variety of experimental studies. We begin by considering what linguistic outputs are logically possible when bilingual speakers communicate based on the typological features of two languages in the bilingual mind. Our aim is to explain why some outputs are more frequent or mor…
Speaking in a second language but thinking in the first language: Language-specific effects on memory for causation events in English and Spanish
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: This paper’s objective is to offer new insights into the effects of language on memory for causation events in a second language (L2) context. The research was driven by the question of whether proficient L2 users acquired L2 thinking-for-speaking-and-remembering strategies along with the relevant expressions for different types of causation (intentional versus non-intentional). Design/methodology/ap…
May vs. Might in native vs. non-native English: Implications for inference and judgement in legal and educational contexts
In this paper we discuss the empirically documented difference in a mock-jury judgement task between native speakers of English and speakers of English as a second language. We discovered a difference between these two populations in the understanding of events described by witnesses with regard to the use of verbs may and might . The events described with may were scored much higher on the possibility and witness certainty scales than when the s…
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker p…
Typology in action: Applying typological insights in the study of translation
This paper provides arguments in favour of using Talmy's cognitive typology in the study of translation. I contrasted English motion expressions with those in Spanish and Serbo‐Croatian. English and Spanish belong to two opposing types in the typology, and Serbo‐Croatian is classified as the same type as English. I illustrate the effects that different lexicalization patterns can have in a specific context of translation, namely that of translati…
Cognitive Linguistics
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker p…
Multiple factors in second language acquisition: The Casp model
We propose a new model of second language acquisition consisting of multiple interacting principles and inspired by work on complex adaptive systems. The model is referred to as CASP, short for complex adaptive system principles for second language acquisition. It is informed by a broad range of linguistic and psycholinguistic research and supported empirically by recent second language research studies based on a learner corpus. The novelty of o…
Bilingual advantage for memory of events: Why now you see it, now you don’t
One of the most important findings in relation to bilingual memory has been that of shared conceptual representation and memory storage. The paper in the original volume that is being honoured here was by Jeanette Altarriba. The present contribution shares and celebrates the themes discussed in that paper, and in the spirit of the current special issue, it also highlights something new about bilingual memory that we know now and that we did not k…
Prediction in SVO and SOV languages: Processing and Typological Considerations
In this study, we tested the possibility that different word orders engender different processing preferences. Our key hypothesis was that a head-initial language like English (SVO) allows more prediction compared to a head-final language like Japanese (SOV). In Experiment 1, English and Japanese native speakers completed a cloze task in which they heard a sentence fragment (SV_ in English and SO_ in Japanese) and had to complete it with the word…
Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics
Cognitive Linguistics
Language as a witness: Insights from cognitive linguistics
The paper examines the way in which the latest linguistic typology (Talmy 1985) can be used in the analysis of witness testimonies in multilingual court cases. Original transcripts of witness testimonies in Spanish and their translations in English by certified court interpreters have been used in this study. The two languages stand at the respective ends of the typological cline based on the lexicalization of the experiential domain in focus her…
Typology in action: Applying typological insights in the study of translation
This paper provides arguments in favour of using Talmy's cognitive typology in the study of translation. I contrasted English motion expressions with those in Spanish and Serbo‐Croatian. English and Spanish belong to two opposing types in the typology, and Serbo‐Croatian is classified as the same type as English. I illustrate the effects that different lexicalization patterns can have in a specific context of translation, namely that of translati…
Grammars of Space: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity
Motion Events in Eyewitness Interviews, Translation and Memory: Typological and Psycholinguistic Perspectives
This paper discusses the ways in which Cognitive Linguistics informs Forensic Linguistics and Psycholinguistics and illustrates what potential future developments in these disciplines may be. The starting point is a typology of the world's languages, proposed by within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics. Talmy's typology is a classification of languages based on the lexical and syntactic means speakers use in order to map language‐specific ca…
Aspectual meanings in two cognitive domains: A constructional approach to aspect in Serbian
I argue that certain aspectual forms that have given rise to descriptive problems in the past can be accounted for if we understand the contexts in which these forms appear as constructions . I provide evidence for two aspectual constructions in Serbian, which are used to describe situations in two cognitive domains, motion and consumption. These two domains are chosen because of their ubiquity in both language and cognition. The two aspectual co…
Speaking and remembering in one or two languages: Bilingual vs. monolingual lexicalization and memory for motion events
The aim of this study is to test whether balanced English–Spanish bilingual speakers behave like monolinguals in each of their languages when describing and remembering complex motion events. The semantic domain in question is motion, because some components (namely the manner of motion) are more difficult to lexicalize in Spanish than in English because of typological constraints (see Filipović, 2007; Slobin, 1996, 1997; Talmy, 1985). As a resul…
Space and time in languages and cultures: Linguistic Diversity
Space and time in languages and cultures: Language, Culture, and Cognition
Constructing causation in language and memory: Implications for access to justice in multilingual interactions
Can witness memory be different for speakers of different languages? English and Spanish differ significantly in the expression of causal intentionality, and this study explores the possibility that the systematic ambiguity of English causation constructions (e.g. ‘She dropped the keys’) detracts from memory of intentionality in causation events, while the consistent tendency to differentiate intentional from non-intentional events in Spanish can…
Multiple factors in second language acquisition: The Casp model
We propose a new model of second language acquisition consisting of multiple interacting principles and inspired by work on complex adaptive systems. The model is referred to as CASP, short for complex adaptive system principles for second language acquisition. It is informed by a broad range of linguistic and psycholinguistic research and supported empirically by recent second language research studies based on a learner corpus. The novelty of o…
May vs. Might in native vs. non-native English: Implications for inference and judgement in legal and educational contexts
In this paper we discuss the empirically documented difference in a mock-jury judgement task between native speakers of English and speakers of English as a second language. We discovered a difference between these two populations in the understanding of events described by witnesses with regard to the use of verbs may and might . The events described with may were scored much higher on the possibility and witness certainty scales than when the s…
Endangered Languages and Languages in Danger: Issues of documentation, policy, and language rights
This peer-reviewed collection brings together the latest research on language endangerment and language rights. It creates a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for the discussion of the most pertinent and urgent topics central to vitality and equality of languages in today's globalised world. The novelty of the volume lies in the multifaceted view on the variety of dangers that languages face today, such as extinction through dwindling speaker p…
Speaking in a second language but thinking in the first language: Language-specific effects on memory for causation events in English and Spanish
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: This paper’s objective is to offer new insights into the effects of language on memory for causation events in a second language (L2) context. The research was driven by the question of whether proficient L2 users acquired L2 thinking-for-speaking-and-remembering strategies along with the relevant expressions for different types of causation (intentional versus non-intentional). Design/methodology/ap…
Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions
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Evidence-gathering in police interviews: Communication problems and possible solutions
In this paper I discuss the many complexities that police officers have to deal with in their communication with suspects. Investigative interviewing is a very complex communicative situation in itself, with a number of different psychological and sociological variables at play during each interview. In addition, suspect interviews bring about an additional dimension of complexity, which is driven by the fact that a basic principle of conversatio…
The Complex Adaptive System Principles model for bilingualism: Language interactions within and across bilingual minds
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: We propose a model that captures general patterns in bilingual language processing, based on empirical evidence elicited in a variety of experimental studies. We begin by considering what linguistic outputs are logically possible when bilingual speakers communicate based on the typological features of two languages in the bilingual mind. Our aim is to explain why some outputs are more frequent or mor…
Bilingual memory advantage: Bilinguals use a common linguistic pattern as an aid to recall memory
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: The aim of this study is to probe for language effects on bilingual episodic memory. The main research question is whether both languages of bilinguals are accessible and used as aids to memory regardless of which language is used for speaking, or whether each language used for verbalization affects memory in a language-specific way. Design/methodology/approach: Our methodology involves an experiment…
Language and Culture as Sources of Inequality in US Police Interrogations
The aim of the study was to check whether minorities such as LEP/ZEP (limited/zero English proficiency) speakers can expect the same access to justice as competent English speakers in a majority language (US English) justice system. The main hypothesis is that, due to linguistic and cultural factors, the instances of miscommunication in the interrogation of LEP/ZEP suspects and witnesses will be more numerous than in the interrogation of the majo…
A Multi-Factor Approach to the Study of L2 Acquisition of Motion Verbs and Motion Constructions: Integration of Typological, Psycholinguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects
Talking about motion events in L2 is done in different ways by different speakers on different occasions. This is due to multiple factors, typological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic, which interact and play a role in L2 acquisition and use. These factors can sometimes lead the same types of L2 speakers to produce very different outputs and sometimes very different L2 speakers to produce the same or similar outputs. In order to capture this…
Lost in translation, apparently: Bilingual language processing of evidentiality in a Turkish–English Translation and judgment task
We investigated how bilingual speakers process evidentiality information in a dual language activation setting (Green & Abutalebi, 2013) using a translation production and confidence judgment task. Due to interaction of multiple factors in bilingual processing a multifactor model CASP ( Complex Adaptive System Principles ) for Bilingualism (Filipović & Hawkins, 2019) was used as a theoretical frame. Evidentiality indicates the source of informati…
First language versus second language effect on memory for motion events: The role of language type and proficiency
Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: This research probes for language effects on witness memory in bilingual speakers whose languages are typologically distinct, English and Spanish. The key question is whether speakers’ memory for agentive motion events is influenced by first language (L1) or second language (L2) patterns, or both, when the L2 is used for descriptions. Design/methodology/approach: Four groups were tested in an event v…
Researching language and cognition in bilinguals
Aims: This article reviews recent research on the relationship between language and thinking in bilinguals. Approach: The paper reviews aspects of previous research, and links it to the articles in this special issue. Conclusions: Research on language and cognition in bilinguals requires both depth (in-depth investigations of one area in order to test approaches and methods) and breadth (investigations of a wide range of research areas). It shoul…
The tale of two countries: Police interpreting in the UK vs in the US
The aim of this research was to compare the quality of language services and of linguistic evidence obtained in UK police interviews and US police interrogations with suspects, witnesses and victims who speak little or no English and have to communicate via an interpreter. This is the first study of its kind based on substantial real-life data from both jurisdictions, which rely on different types of service provision. The data were annotated usi…
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