IDOIA ROS

 

University of the Basque Country
Dept. of Linguistics and Basque Studies
Centro de Investigación Micaela Portilla Ikergunea
Justo Vélez de Elorriaga , 1
01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Basque Country (Spain)
email: idoia.ros@gmail.com
Phone: +34 945 014 452
Fax: +34 945 013 200

Research interests

Sentence Production; Dependency Length Minimization; Efficient Communication

Education

(present) Ph.D. Candidate. Department of Basque and Linguistic Studies. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

2015. Ph.D. visiting student at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

2014. ESCOP Summer School. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language. Donostia/San Sebatián (Spain)

2013.  Bilingual Minds, Bilingual Machines Summer School. The Cognition Institute. Plymouth University (UK)

2012. Masters of Arts in Linguistics. Department of Basque and Linguistic Studies. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

2006. Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)

Grants and Awards

2016. Travel award for EXAL+.

2015. Grant for a short-term predoctoral research visit to the University of Rochester. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

2014. ESCOP award for ESCOP Summer School.

2014. Predoctoral research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies. The Bilingual Mind research group. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)

2013. Tuition waiver from the Cognition Institute (Plymouth University) for the Bilingual Minds, Bilingual Machines Summer School.

2013 –  2014. Predoctoral research grant from the University of the Basque Country (EHU/UPV). Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies. The Bilingual Mind research group.

2006. A-III Grant from the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation.

Presentations at conferences

(2017) Ros, I., Egusquiza, N. & Laka, I. Attraction effects in Basque: Comprehension data. Talk at Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference. UNED, Mahón-Maó, Menorca, Spain. June 27-30.

(2017) Ros, I., Zawiszewski, A.,  Santesteban, M. & Itziar Laka. The impact of language specific distributional patterns on the bias for short dependencies: Cross-linguistic evidence from Basque, Polish and Spanish. Talk at Linguistic diversity meets the brain: Future directions on language sciences. University of Zürich, May 14-17.

(2017) Ros, I., Egusquiza, N. & Laka, I. Facilitatory effects in grammatical and ungrammatical sentences in Basque: a novel case of agreement attraction. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 30-April, 1.

(2017) Ros, I., Santesteban, M., & Laka, I. The effect of memory demands on dependency length minimization. Poster presented at the 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. March 30-April, 1.

(2016) Ros, I., Egusquiza, N. & Laka, I. Agreement attraction effects in Basque production and judgement acceptability data. Talk presented at Experimental Approaches to Arabic and Other Understudied Languages (EXAL+). NYU Abu Dhabi (EAU). January 16-17.

(2014) Ros, I., Santesteban, M., Fukumura, K. & Laka, I. On the impact of phrasal length on native and non-native sentence production: Evidence from Basque and Spanish. Poster presented at the 20th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). University of Edinburgh, UK. September 6 – 8.

(2014) Ros, I., Santesteban, M., Fukumura, K. & Laka, I. On the impact of NP-length on sentence word order: Evidence from Basque native and non-native speakers. Poster presented at the International Workshop on Language Production. Université de Gèneve, Switzerland. July, 16-18.

(2014) Ros, I., Santesteban, M., Fukumura, K. & Laka, I. VO-OV yield imperfect mirror images: on the impact of length on word order. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Columbus, Ohio State University. March, 13-15.

(2013) Ros, I., Laka, I., Fukumura, K. & Santesteban, M. Appearances are deceiving: opposite effects of one processing system. Poster presented at Bilingual Minds, Bilingual Machines Summer School. Cognition Institute. Plymouth University (UK). June 24-28.

(2012) Ros, I., Laka, I., Fukumura, K. & Santesteban, M. Processing constraints on word order. Talk at the V Brainglot Workshop. Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. November 22-23.

(2012) Ros, I., Laka, I., Fukumura, K. & Santesteban, M.. Aiming at shorter dependencies: Agreeing to Long-before-Short preferences. Poster presented at the Cognitive Modules & Interfaces Workshop. University of Trieste, Italy. September 18-19.

(2012) Ros, I., Laka, I., Fukumura, K. & Santesteban, M. Long-before-short in Head-final Languages that Agree. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Conference (AMLaP). Riva di Garda, University of Trento, Italy. September 6-8.

(2012) Ros, I., Laka, I., Fukumura, K. & Santesteban, M. Processing pressures on word order: long-before-short preference in Basque. Poster presented at the Workshop on Language Production. NYU, New York, USA. July 18-20.

Previous Employment

Research assistant

2011 – 2012. Predoctoral researcher. Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies. The Bilingual Mind research group. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

2010. Research assistant. Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies. The Bilingual Mind research group. University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

2006 – 2007. Research assistant. Computational Linguistics Lab. German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Saarbrücken, Germany.

Teaching (as primary instructor)

2011 – 2013. Part-time instructor (under contract). Lingüística I and Lingüística II. BA in Philology (Spanish Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Classical Philology and English Studies) and BSc inTranslation and Interpreting.

2009 – 2011. Teacher at the summer courses of the Menéndez Pidal International University (UIMP). Santander, Spain.

2007 – 2009. Lecturer in Spanish. Justus-Liebig-Universität. Gießen, Germany.

Attendance

(2013) Towards a Theory of Syntactic Variation. Bilbao, Spain. June 5-7.

(2013) ERP Boot Camp. University of South Carolina. USA. February 25-27.

(2011) 10th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics. BCBL. Basque Center for Language and Cognition. Donostia-San Sebastian. April 13-16.

Participation in funded research projects

AThEME— Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (FP7-SSH-2013-1) (2014 – 2017). Coordinated Project involving a consortium of 17 European research groups. Project Coordinator: Lisa L. Cheng (U. Leiden). 4,999,990 €.

The Bilingual Mind (IT665-13) (2013-2018). Consolidated Research Group of Excellence, A grade. Funding agency: Department of Education, Universities and Research, Eusko Jaurlaritza. Principal Investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza. 284.398 €.

Gramática en procesamiento: Estrategias de procesamiento y parámetros sintácticos. (GRAMMARINPROCESS FFI2012-31360) (2013-2015). Funding agency: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. Principal Investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza. 80.730 €.

Bilingüismo y Neurociencia Cognitiva CSD2007-00012. (2007-2012). CONSOLIDER-INGENIO/2010, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Principal investigator: Núria Sebastián-Gallés (Universidad de Barcelona). 4.990.000€.

The Bilingual Mind. Gogo elebiduna. Mente Bilingüe (IT414-10) (2010-2012). Eusko Jaurlaritza, Hezkuntza, Unibertsitate eta Ikerketa Saila. Principal investigator: Itziar Laka Mugarza (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU). 117.000€.

Participation in reach-out activities

2017. Ros, I. Hizkuntza gure baitan. Iraultza zientifiko baten historia. Talk at Jakin-Mina. March, 24.

2016. Science, Technology and Innovation XVI. Week . Psycholinguistics. The Bilingual Mind. November, 3-6.

2016. Ros, I. Espejismos auditivos: los engaños de tu lengua materna. Naukas Bilbao, ciencia, escepticismo y humor. September, 16.

2016. Ros, I. Bilingual advantages, with a pintch of salt. Mapping Ignorance. June 13.

2015. Ros, I. Descifrando el código humano: El reto de adquirir un lengua. Poster at the Brain Awareness Week. March, 16-22.

2011. Brainglot IV Workshop

2011. Science, Technology and Innovation XI. Week . Psycholinguistics. The Bilingual Mind.

2010. Science, Technology and Innovation X. Week . Psycholinguistics. The Bilingual Mind.

Others

Languages

Spanish, Basque,  English and German; Basic notions of French and Spanish Sign Language.