RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests range over the following areas: psycholinguistics •
neurolinguistics • bilingualism • language acquisition • semantics • philosophy of language.
I am particularly interested with how and the extent to which language
relates with other cognitive mechanisms. Conceptual issues such as
the relation between language and thought; what though is made of;
the extent to which language is innate; where and how language is
represented in the minds of monolinguals and bilinguals.
I am now doing research on the influence of grammatical gender on object
categorisation and colour terms on colour perception.
If you have any questions about my research, please do not hesitate to
contact me using one of the ways listed in the ‘Contact’ section.
GRANTS
My research is supported by an ESRC Studentship.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS
Boutonnet, B. Investigating linguistic relativity through second language
acquisition: The case of English learners of French. The 5th Newcastle Postgraduate
Conference in Linguistics. (2010)
Boutonnet, B & Athanasopoulos, P. Bilingualism and Thought:
Uncovering the mechanisms of conceptual restructuring. ISB 8, Olso, Norway (2011)
Boutonnet, B., Davies, P., Hoshino, N., Parafita, M., Wu, Y., Deuchar, M. & Thierry, G. Bridging Linguistics & Neuroscience. An ERP study of conflict sites in Mixed Welsh-English DPs. Workshop on Bilingualism, Aix en Provence. (2011)
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