Research

General Research Overview

Mathew’s research largely focuses on aspects of lexico-semantic development in late, second language learners utilising electroencephalography (EEG) and event-related potential (ERP) techniques. More recently and as part of his Ph.D. work, Mathew has begun research involving bidialectals (those who speak and are exposed to two or more dialects), and the effects of dialect on literacy and reading in children and adults.

Current Projects

  • Decoding Dialect Density - Psychometric development for the measurement of dialect density.
    (This project is available on the OSF)

  • Cross Language Associative Priming - Understanding how new bilinguals process interlingual homographs.

  • FLACON - Exploring the effects of image and orthographic referents on the early stages of late, second language acquisition.
    (preliminary data of this study was presented at AMLaP and ESCOP 2023, and can be found here)

Past Research

  • M2L2 - Effects of motor encoding on sign language acquisition in hearing adults
    (read the article here)
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