Thesis
2024 - Cairncross, A. L1 attrition in Italian: Pronominal reference and (pseudo-)relative parsing ambiguities. PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge
Papers
2024 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Evaluating the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis: Evidence from self-paced reading and persistence effects. Glossa Psycholinguistics
2023 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Pseudorelatives, Relatives and L1 Attrition: Resilience and vulnerability in parser biases. The International Journal of Bilingualism
2021 - Cairncross, A. and Dal Pozzo, L. Postverbal subjects in child Italian: Argument structure, discourse and the definiteness effect. First Language
2020 - Baggio, P and Cairncross, A. The Syntax of Puss in Boots and Sleeping Beauty: Proper names between productivity and atomicity. ConSOLE XXVIII Proceedings
Talks
2022 - Cairncross, A. PRs Eventually?: Evaluating the PR-First Hypothesis in L1 Italian. The Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab (CamPAL), The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2022 - Cairncross, A. Evaluating the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis in Italian: Evidence from eye-tracking and self-paced reading. The Ianthi Group, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2022 - Cairncross, A. Evaluating the Pseudorelative-First Hypothesis in Italian: Preliminary eye-tracking results. Seminario di Ricerca Dottorale, Curriculum di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venezia, Italia
2022 - Cairncross, A. (Pseudo-)Relative Parsing Ambiguities and L1-Attrition in Italian. Seminario di Ricerca Dottorale, Curriculum di Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venezia, Italia
2021 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Pseudorelatives, Relatives and L1-Attrition: Resilience and vulnerability in attachment ambiguities. Conference on Multilingualism (COM), The University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (in lieu of poster)
2021 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Pseudorelatives and L1-Attrition. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing 34, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (in lieu of poster)
2021 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Syntactic L1-Attrition: Pseudorelative parsing and re-exposure. Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) 29, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
2021 - Cairncross, A. Syntactic L1-Attrition: Pseudorelative parsing and re-exposure. The Ianthi Group, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2020 - Cairncross, A. Postverbal Subjects in Child Italian: Argument structure, discourse, and uniqueness readings. The Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab (CamPAL), The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2020 - Cairncross, A. Italian L1-Attrition: Pronouns, relatives, and the aging?. The Ianthi Group, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2019 - Cairncross, A. Postverbal New-Information Subjects in Child Italian. CISCL Research Seminars in Linguistics and Cognition, L’Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy
2018 - Cairncross, A. Attrition in L1-Italian: Overt subjects and executive functions. SyntaxLab, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Posters
2021 - Cairncross, A. and Baggio, P. Two Vlad the Impalers Walk into a Halloween Party: When complex proper names turn common. L’Incontro di Grammatica Generativa (IGG) 46, L’Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy
2020 - Cairncross, A., Vogelzang, M., and Tsimpli, I. Syntactic L1-Attrition and Re-Exposure. The Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium, The University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
2020 - Cairncross, A. and Baggio, P. A Quotational Approach to the Complex Syntax and Semantics of Proper Names. The Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) 28, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Bacelona, Spain
2019 - Dal Pozzo, L. and Cairncross, A. Postverbal Subjects in Italian Monolingual Children. The Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference (GALA 14) L’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy