Dr Jelena Mirkovic

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Dr Jelena Mirkovic

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j.mirkovic@yorksj.ac.uk

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School of Psychological & Social Sciences

Biography

Job title:

Senior Lecturer, Psychology

Biography:

My main research area is psychology of language learning and use. I am interested in how people learn languages (and more specifically grammar), and how language learning and language use are supported by memory mechanisms in the brain in adults and children.

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA MSc, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA BSc, University of Belgrade, Serbia

My Latest

Mirkovic, Jelena and Altmann, Gerry T.M. (2019) Unfolding meaning in context: The dynamics of conceptual similarity. Cognition, 183. pp. 19-43.
Mirkovic, Jelena, Vinals, Lydia and Gaskell, M.G. (2019) The role of complementary learning systems in learning and consolidation in a quasi-regular domain. Cortex, 116. pp. 228-249.
Nag, Sonali, Snowling, Margaret and Mirkovic, Jelena (2018) The role of language production mechanisms in children's sentence repetition: Evidence from an inflectionally rich language. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39 (2). pp. 303-325.
Mirkovic, Jelena, Seidenberg, Mark S. and MacDonald, Maryellen C. (2008) Acquisition and Representation of Grammatical Categories: Grammatical Gender in a Connectionist Network. In: Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, July 23-26, 2008, Washington, D.C.
Mirkovic, Jelena, Forrest, Sarah and Gaskell, M. G. (2011) Semantic regularities in grammatical categories: Learning grammatical gender in an artificial language. In: 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 20-23 July 2011, Boston, MA, USA.
Gaskell, M. Gareth and Mirkovic, Jelena, eds. (2016) Speech perception and spoken word recognition. London, Routledge
Mirkovic, Jelena and Gaskell, M. Gareth (2016) Does Sleep Improve Your Grammar? Preferential Consolidation of Arbitrary Components of New Linguistic Knowledge. PLOS One, 11 (4).
Humphreys, Gina, Mirkovic, Jelena and Gennari, Silvia (2016) Similarity-based competition in relative clause production and comprehension. Journal of Memory and Language, 89. pp. 200-221.
Trenkic, Danijela, Mirkovic, Jelena and Altmann, Gerry T. M. (2014) Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the second language. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 17 (02). pp. 237-257.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	Semantic regularities in grammatical categories: Learning grammatical gender in an artificial language.	364	72
2	Acquisition and Representation of Grammatical Categories: Grammatical Gender in a Connectionist Network	325	47
3	Similarity-based competition in relative clause production and comprehension	173	138
4	Does Sleep Improve Your Grammar? Preferential Consolidation of Arbitrary Components of New Linguistic Knowledge	170	56
5	The role of language production mechanisms in children's sentence repetition: Evidence from an inflectionally rich language	165	191
6	Real-time grammar processing by native and non-native speakers: Constructions unique to the second language	152
7	The role of complementary learning systems in learning and consolidation in a quasi-regular domain	116	109
8	Unfolding meaning in context: The dynamics of conceptual similarity	115	174
9	Speech perception and spoken word recognition	94