IRENE DE LA CRUZ PAVÍA

Ikerbasque Research Fellow
Ramón y Cajal researcher
https://irenedelacruzpavia.wordpress.com
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3425-0596

I am interested in understanding the cognitive mechanisms involved in the acquisition and processing of morphosyntax. I investigate the processing of grammatical structure across modalities, throughout the lifespan, and examining in parallel mono- and bilingual populations.

2023-  Ramón y Cajal Researcher & Ikerbasque Research Fellow, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Deusto University                                                                                        2020-2023  Ikerbasque research fellow & JIN researcher, Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU (Spain)
2020  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy)
2017 – 2020  Post-Doctoral Researcher, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Centre,  (formerly Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception) CNRS-Université Paris Descartes
2014 – 2017  Marie Curie IOF Post-Doctoral researcher, Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception, CNRS-Université Paris Descartes
2014 – 2016 Marie Curie IOF Post-Doctoral researcher, Infant Studies Centre, University of British Columbia
2013 – 2014  Assistant researcher, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
2007 – 2012  International PhD in Linguistics, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU
2004 – 2006  Degree in Linguistics. University Complutense of Madrid UCM
2000 – 2004  Degree in German Philology. University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU

 

PUBLICATIONS

*de la Cruz-Pavía, I., *Hegde, M., Cabrera, L. & Nazzi, T. (2024). Infants’ abilities to segment word forms from spectrally degraded speech in the first year of life. Developmental Science. *equal contribution

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Gervain, J. (2023). Six-month-old infants’ perception of structural regularities in speech. Cognition 238, 105526. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105526

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Eloy, C., Perrineau-Hecklé, P., Nazzi, T., & Cabrera, L. (2023). Consonant bias in adult lexical processing under acoustically degraded listening conditions. JASA Express Letters 3(5), 055206. DOI: 10.1121/10.0019576

Gemignani, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Martínez, A., Nallet, C., Pasquini, A., Lucarini, G., Cavicchiolo, F., Gervain, J. (2023). The reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach. Neurophotonics 10(2), 023518

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2022). The role of audio-visual phrasal prosody in bootstrapping the acquisition of word order. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 230-234. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-47

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Westphal-Fitch, G., Fitch, W. T.., & Gervain, J. (2022). Seven-month-old infants detect symmetrical structures in multi-featured abstract visual patterns. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0266938. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266938

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Elordieta, G., Villegas, J., Gervain, J., & Laka, I. (2022 – published online on Jan 2020). Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 25(2), 676-695. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1713045

Berent, I., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Brentari, D., & Gervain, J. (2021). Infants differentially extract rules from language. Scientific Reports, 11, 20001. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99539-8.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Marino, C., & Gervain, J. (2021). Word order: Early beginnings. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.04.011

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Gervain, J. (2021). Infants’ perception of repetition-based regularities in speech: a look from the perspective of the same/different distinction. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 37:125–132. DOI: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.11.014

Gervain, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Gerken, L. (2020 – published online on Dec 2018). Behavioural and imaging studies of infant artificial grammar learning. Topics in Cognitive Science 12, 815-827. DOI: 10.1111/tops.12400

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Elordieta, G., Villegas, J., Gervain, J., & Laka, I. (early view January 2020). Segmental information drives adult bilingual phrase segmentation preference. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2020.1713045

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Werker, J. F., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Gervain, J. (2020). Finding phrases: The interplay of word frequency, phrasal prosody and co-speech visual information in chunking speech by monolingual and bilingual adults. Language and Speech 63(2), 264-291.DOI: 10.1177/0023830919842353

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Werker, J. F. (2019). Finding phrases: On the role of co-verbal facial information in learning word order in infancy. PLOS ONE 14(11), e0224786. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224786

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E. & Werker, J. F. (early view Sep 2019). Audio-Visual information signals phrase boundaries across speech styles: A production study of Japanese and English infant- and adult-directed speech. Language Acquisition. DOI: 10.1080/10489223.2019.1659276

Wojcik, E., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Werker, J. F. (2017). Language Acquisition. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.56

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Elordieta, G. (2015). Prosodic phrasing of relative clauses with two possible antecedents in Spanish: a comparison of Spanish native speakers and L1Basque bilingual speakers. Folia Linguistica 49(1), 185-204. DOI: 10.1515/flin-2015-0006

de la Cruz-Pavía, I.; Elordieta, G.; Sebastián-Gallés, N.; Laka, I. (2015) On the role of frequency-based cues in the segmentation strategies of adult OV/VO bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 225-241. DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2014.904839.

Carreiras, M., Duñabeitia, J.A., Vergara, M., de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Laka, I. (2010). Subject Relative Clauses are not universally easier to process: Evidence from Basque, Cognition, Vol.115, Issue 1 (p. 79-92). DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.11.012

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2010). The influence of prosody in the processing of ambiguous RCs: a study with Spanish monolinguals and Basque-Spanish bilinguals from the Basque Country, Interlingüística, Vol. XX.

PhD Dissertation (International Thesis) (2012)
Title:Chunking the input: on the role of frequency and prosody in the segmentation strategies of adult bilinguals. [pdf]
Advisors: Itziar Laka, Gorka Elordieta
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

Title: The role of spectral and temporal information in lexical processing and speech  comprehension
Keynote given at the Closing Workshop of the ERC Consolidator Grant “BabyRhythm”, Italy, May 9-10th 2024.

Title: The similar but different paths to acquiring one or more languages
Invited talk given at the Bilingualism Series organised by the Instituto Cervantes Manchester-Leeds and the University of Manchester, UK, March 16th 2022.

Title: Bootstrapping the beginnings of word order
Keynote given jointly with Judit Gervain at the Crossing the Borders consortium meeting, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany, October 7th 2021.

Title: Learning abstract structure across modalities in early infancy
The Bilingual Mind research group, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, June 27th 2019.

Title: Processing linguistic structure across modalities and throughout development. Behavioural and imaging studies on phrase segmentation and the detection of abstract structure
IKER (UMR 5478), Bayonne, France, February 13th 2018.

Title: Research techniques in experimental linguistics
University of Vigo, Spain, November 7th 2017.

Title:An exploration of the acoustic and facial visual cues to word order across languages and speech styles, and their role in speech segmentation in adult monolinguals and bilinguals
Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain, June 13th 2017.

Title: Chunking the phrase: Acoustic and facial movement cues to word order and their role in speech segmentation in monolinguals and bilinguals     
Language and Cognition Group (LACG), Leiden University, The Netherlands, June 8th 2017.

TEACHING

Spring 2022 Organiser and lecturer in the course (3 ECTS): Fundamentals of Language Acquisition, Master Universitario en Lingüística Teórica y Experimental, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2021 Lecturer in the undergraduate course (3 ECTS): Psicolingüística, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. Student evaluation: 4.8/5 (general satisfaction with the instructor)

June 2020 Organiser and lecturer in the course (2 ECTS): Fundamentals of Language Acquisition, Master Universitario en Lingüística-Hizkuntzalaritza, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

2019 / 2020 Responsable Unité d’Enseignement [UE] and lecturer in LC1 course (6 ECTS): Language Acquisition and Processing, Master Recherche en Sciences Cognitives (Cogmaster), École Normale Superieure, Paris, France

April 2019 Instructor (3h) in the Formation courte en Spectroscopie Proche Infrarouge (NIRS), The Institut of Neurosciences and Cognition, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

2018 / 2019 Winter Session Co-responsable UE and lecturer of LC1 course (12h): Language Acquisition and Processing, Master Recherche en Sciences Cognitives (Cogmaster), École Normale Superieure, Paris, France

May 2018  Guest lecturer (20h): Milestones in Early Language Acquisition: Theory & Methods, Master Universitario en Lingüística-Hizkuntzalaritza, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

November 2017  Guest lecturer (3h) in the course: Language Acquisition and Processing, Master Recherche en Sciences Cognitives (Cogmaster), École Normale Superieure, Paris, France

November 2017  Guest lecturer (2h): Linguistics as a science. Introduction to psycho- and neurolinguistics, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

November 2016 Guest lecturer (3h) in the course: Acquisition et traitement du langage, Master Recherche en Sciences Cognitives (Cogmaster), École Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

February 2013  Guest lecturer (1h) in the course: Advanced Course in Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics, Master Universitario en Lingüística-Hizkuntzalaritza, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

 

SELECTED CONFERENCES

Fuente-García, P., Villegas, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2024). Word segmentation abilities remain stable across the lifespan: A comparative study of young and older bilinguals. Oral communication presented at: Workshop on Language Processing in Aging, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 23, 2024.

Nallet, C., Lucarini, G., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J (2024). Newborn’s brain responses to speech, cries and laughter. Oral communication presented at: ERC “Babyrhythm” Project Closing Workshop, Padua, Italy, May 9-10, 2024.

Fuente, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2023). Exposure length to an artificial language significantly impacts adult mono- and bilinguals’ segmentation strategies. Oral communication presented at the XVI International Symposium of Pscyholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31-Jun 2.

Nallet, C., Lucarini, G., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Gervain. J. (2023). Are babies’ cries already language? Oral communication presented at the XVI International Symposium of Pscyholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Mar 31-Jun 2.

Gemignani, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Martinez, A., Nallet, C., Pasquini, A., , Lucarini, G. & Gervain, ,J. (2023). The reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach. Oral communication presented at the XVI International Symposium of Pscyholinguistics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, May 31-Jun 2.

Fuente, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2023). Exposure length to an artificial language significantly impacts adult mono- and bilinguals’ segmentation strategies. Oral communication presented at the I Congreso Internacional Multidisdiplinar de Estudiantes de Doctorado (CIMED), La Laguna, Spain, Mar 22-24.

Hedge, M., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Nazzi, T., & Cabrera, L. (2022). Word segmentation abilities in infants under acoustically degraded conditions. Oral communication presented at: Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting SRCD 2023, Salt Lake City, USA, Mar 23-25.

Nallet, C., Lucarini, G., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Gervain. J. (2022). Are babies’ cries already language? Oral communication presented at the 13th Annual Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development BCCCD23, Budapest, Hungary, Jan 5-7.

Gemignani, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Martinez, A., Nallet, C., Pasquini, A., Lucarini, G. & Gervain, ,J. (2022). The reproducibility of infant fNIRS studies: a meta-analytic approach. Oral communication presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences AISC2022, Rovereto, Italy, Dec 15-17.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Gervain, J. (2022). Six-month-old infants’ abilities to represent sequences of different syllables in speech. Poster presented at the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development BUCLD 47, Boston, U.S.A., Nov 3-6.

Sun, X., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J. & ManyBabies 3 NIRS Project Team. (2022). ManyBabies3NIRS: A large-scale, multi-lab NIRS replication study assessing infants’ ability to detect regularities in speech. Oral communication presented at the 2022 Big Team Science Conference, Virtual congress, Oct 27-28.

Gervain, J. & ManyBabies3NIRS Project Team. (2022). ManyBabies3NIRS: A large-scale, multi-lab NIRS replication study assessing infants’ ability to extract regularities from speech. Oral communication presented at the fNIRS 2022 Biennial Meeting of the Society for fNIRS, Boston, USA, Oct 9-12.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2022). The role of audio-visual phrasal prosody in bootstrapping the acquisition of word order. Oral communication presented at: Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, May 23-26.

Fuente, P., Urquijo, R., Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2022). Manipulating exposure length significantly impacts adult mono-and bilinguals’ word order preferences of an artificial language. Talk presented at: International APPE-SEPEX Meeting, Faro, Portugal, May 5-7.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Gervain, J. (2021). Prelexical infants’ abilities to represent regularities in speech: A near-infrared spectroscopy study. Talk presented at: 6th Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, LCICD, Virtual congress, Aug 25-27.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I. & Gervain, J. (2021). Six-month-old infants’ abilities to represent regularities in speech. Short talk presented at: 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY21, Virtual congress, Mar 4-6.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., & Berent, I. (2019). The detection of repetition-based regularities from visual input at 6 months of age.Poster presented at: 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, SNL 2019, Helsinki, August 20-22.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Werker, J.F. (2018). Finding phrases: Does co-verbal visual information help adults and infants parse speech?Oral communication presented at: RALFe 2018, Paris, December 6-7.

Gervain, J., de la Cruz-Pavía, I., & Berent, I. (2018). The detection of repetition-based regularities from visual input at 6 months of age. Poster presented in: fNIRS 2018, Tokyo, October 3-5.

Gervain, J., & de la Cruz-Pavía, I. (2018). Learning repetition-based regularities at 6 months. Oral communication presented by de la Cruz-Pavía in: 2018 International Conference on Infant Studies ICIS, Philadelphia, June 30-July 3.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., McAuliffe, M., Vatikiotis-Bateson, E., & Werker, J.F. (2016). Acoustic correlates to word order in Infant- and Adult Directed Speech: A cross-linguistic study. Poster presented at: 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan (ASA/ASJ), Hawaii, November 28-December 2.

de la Cruz-Pavía, Irene, McAuliffe, Michael, Werker, Janet F., Gervain, Judit, & Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric (2015). Visual Cues to Phrase Segmentation and the Acquisition of Word Order. Poster presented at: FAAVSP – The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, Vienna, September 11-13.

de la Cruz-Pavía, I., Gervain, J., Sebastián-Gallés, N., Elordieta, G., & Laka, I. (2012). Bilingual segmentation: effect of context language in Basque-Spanish bilinguals. Poster presented at: Architectures and Mechanism for Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, September 6-8.

de la Cruz Pavía, I. & Elordieta, G. (2009). The prosody of ambiguous relative clauses in Spanish: a study of monolinguals and Basque-Spanish bilinguals. Oral communication presented at: Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 17-19.

de la Cruz Pavía, I. & Elordieta, G. (2009). Preferencia de adjunción de las oraciones de relativo ambiguas en el castellano del País Vasco. Oral communication presented at: XXIV Encuentro Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Barcelona, May 7-9.

de la Cruz Pavía, I., Duñabeitia, J.A., & Laka, I.(2008) Relative Clause Attachment Preference in Spanish: A study of monolinguals from the Basque Country. Oral communication presented at: 6th Workshop on Syntax & Semantics, Vitoria-Gasteiz, December 4-5.

REVIEWER IN JOURNALS

Bilingualism: Language & Cognition ; Cognition ; Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ; Developmental Science ; Frontiers in Human Neuroscience; Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences ; Human Brain Mapping; Infant Behavior and Development; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance ; Language and Cognition; Language, Cognition and Neuroscience ; Language and Speech ; Language Learning; Neurophotonics ; PLOS ONE ; Second Language Research; Trends in Neurosciences.