(09 th of December, 2008) CURRICULUM VITAE NAME: DATE OF BIRTH: ADDRESS: KEPA ERDOZIA URIARTE 24, March, 1977 ELEBILAB University of the Basque Country Unibertsitateko Ibilbidea, 5. 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain Phone: +34 945 014 294 Fax: +34 945 013 200 e-mail: kepa.erdozia@gmail.com www.elebilab.com RESEARCH INTERESTS Linguistics (Syntax), Bilingualism, Artificial Language Learning, Cognitive Science, Neuroimage. EDUCATION PhD: M.A.: Linguistics PhD dissertation, 2006: Euskarazko hitz hurrenkera eta kate anbiguoak: ebidentzia psikolinguistikoak eta neurolinguistikoak. [Word order and ambiguous chains in Basque, behavioural and neurolinguistical evidences] Advisor: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque County) Lingusitics, 2004, two Research Papers required: 1. Euskarazko hurrenkera anbiguoak prozesatzen [Processing of ambiguous word orders in Basque]. Advisor: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque County) 2. Patologías del lenguaje y neurolingüística [Language pathologies and neurolinguistics] Advisor: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque County) Graduate program: 2000-2004: Linguistics PhD program. This program received the excellence qualification of the Spanish government consecutively from 2000 to 2008. Undergraduate: 1996-2000: Bachelor s Degree (BA) in Philology (U. of the Basque Country) 1
PARTICIPATION IN FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECT 2007-2012: Bilingüismo y Neurociencia Cognitiva CSD2007-00012 CONSOLIDER- INGENIO, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia. Head Researcher: Nuria Sebastián. Endowment: 4.99 millions 2007-2009: Asymmetries in language processing. SEJ2007-60751/PSIC, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Plan Nacional I+D+I). Head Researcher: Nuria Sebastián. 2006-2008: Neural origins of language and communication (NEUROCOM) FP6-2003- NEST-PATH. Coordinator: Guy A. Orban. Endowment: 1.7 millions 2003-2005: The emergence of grammar in the brain: a comparative study of acquisition, processing and cortical organization of the structural aspects of language in bilingual and monolingual populations. (BFF2002-20379-E) Financial institution: European Science Foundation/EUROCORES Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Principal Investigator: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country). Endowment: 113,043.47 2002-2005: La arquitectura del lenguaje: estructura multidimensional de las interfaces lingüísticas [The architecture of language: multidemensional structure of linguistic interfaces]. Financial institution: U. of the Basque Country. Principal Investigator: Myriam Uribe-Etxebarria (U. of the Basque Country). Endowment: 26,425.85 2001-2004: La representación del lenguaje en el cerebro bilingüe: desarrollo, maduración y patología [The representation of bilingual language: development, maturation and pathology]. Financial institution: U. of the Basque Country. Head Researcher: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country). Endowment: 53,610 STAYS IN OTHER LABS 2006: Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM). In the unit 562: neuroímagerie du langage parlé, Christophe Pallier (CNRS, Inserm U562). From April to June of 2006. 2003-2004: Group de Reserca Neurociència Cognitiva, in the Department of Psicología Básica (Universitat de Barcelona). Nuría Sebastián (UB) and Antoni Rodriguez- Fornells (UB, ICREA). Run and analize ERP experiment. Two talks and active participation in GRNC seminars. Participation in aphasia seminars directed by Albert Costa (UB). GRANTS and CONTRACTS 2008-2010: Researcher Contract (U. of the Basque Country) 2008/09-10: Researcher Contract (Group de Recerca Neurociencia Cognitiva) 2
2008-2009: Angel Apraiz Fellowship (Eusko Ikaskuntza / Basque Studies) 2006-2008: Post-doctoral Fellowship (INSERM) 2001-2005: Pre-doctoral Fellowship (U. of the Basque Country) LANGUAGES Native speaker of Basque and Spanish High Proficiency in English Proficiency in French Basic notions of Spanish Sign Language ARTICLES Díaz, Begoña, Erdozia, Kepa; Mueller, Jutta; Laka, Itziar; Sebastián-Gallés, Nuria. Submitted. Electrophysiological correlates of lexical-semantics, case and agreement violations in Basque. Brain and Language. Erdozia, Kepa; Laka, Itziar; Rodríguez-Fornells, Antoni. Under Revision. Processing derived Word orders in Basque. In Peter de Swart and Monique Lamers (eds.). Case, Word Order, and Prominence: Psycholinguistic and theoretical approaches to argument structure. Springer. Erdozia, Kepa; Laka, Itziar; Mestres-Misse, Anna; Rodríguez-Fornells, Antoni. Under Revision. Syntactic complexity and ambiguity resolution in a free word order language: behavioral and electrophysiological evidences from Basque. Brain and Language. Erdozia, Kepa. 2006. Euskarazko hitz hurrenkera desberdinak prozesatzen [Processing different word orders in Basque]. In Beatriz Fernandez & Itziar Laka (eds.) Andolin gogoan. Essays in Honour of Professor Eguzkitza. University of the Basque Country Press, Bilbao. Díaz, Begoña, Erdozia, Kepa; Mueller, Jutta; Sebastián-Gallés, Nuria; Laka, Itziar. 2006. Individual differences in syntactic processing of a second language: Electrophysiological evidence. Journal of Psychophysiology 20(3): 228-228. TALKS IN CONFERENCES 2008: Processing Canonical and Derived Word Orders in Basque: evidence from native and non-native bilinguals. I Brainglot Workshop. 27 th -28 th of November, Barcelona. 2008: Lenguaje, Cerebro y Bilingüismo [Language, Brain, and Bilingualism]. Presented with Andrej Tarlowski (UPV) and Ibon Manterola (UPV). Science Popularization Week of the University of the Basque Country. 13 th -15 th of November, Vitoria-Gasteiz. 3
2008: Ergative System of Basque: evidences from language processing. Seminar on Ergativity. CELIA (CNRS). Paris, France. 2008: Complex Grammar Learning: Is possible to learn a complex grammar only by means of transitional probabilities?. With Christophe Pallier (CNRS, INSERM- CEA U562). Workshop Etudes et Réflexions sur l Acquisition de la Syntaxe Université de Genève. 2007: Word order and ambiguity resolution in Basque: behavioral and electrophysiological evidences. With Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (UB, ICREA) and Anna Mestres (UB). Workshop Case, Word Order and Prominence in Argument Structure, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2007: Diferencias individuales en la competencia de una segunda lengua y edad de adquisición: evidencia electrofisiológica. Presented by Begona Diaz. Authors: Begoña Díaz, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Kepa Erdozia, Jutta L. Mueller, Itziar Laka. VIII Simposio de Psicolingüística. (Organizacio de Congresos Fundacio General de la Universitat de les Illes Ballears). Palma de Mallorca. 2006: Word Order and Syntactic Complexity. With Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (UB, ICREA) and Anna Mestres (UB). The Architecture of Language: from Cognitive Modelling to Brain Mapping and Back, Pisa (Italy). Satellite activity of the 12 th Organization for Human Brain Mapping Meeting. 2006: Individual Differences in Syntactic Processing of a Second Language: Electrophysiological Evidence. Presented by Begona Diaz. Authors: Begoña Díaz, Kepa Erdozia, Jutta L. Mueller, Núria Sebastián-Gallés, Itziar Laka. 5 th Congress of the Spanish Society of Psychophysiology. Granada, Spain. 2005: Syntactic complexity of different Basque word orders: evidence from neuroimage (ERP). With Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (UB, ICREA) and Anna Mestres (UB). Joing meeting of The Hispanic Linguistics Symposium & The Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages. Workshop on language processing, Penn-State University, USA. 2005: Processing of word order and ambiguous chains in Basque: ERP and behavioral evidences. With Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), Antoni Rodriguez- Fornells (UB, ICREA) and Anna Mestres (UB). XIV Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 2005: Procesamiento de órden de palabras y cadenas ambiguas en euskera: evidencia de potenciales evocados (ERP) [Processing word orders and ambiguous chains in Basque: ERP evidences]. With Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (UB, ICREA) and Anna Mestres (UB). VII Simposio de Psicolingüística. (Universidad de Valencia) Valencia. 4
2004: Word Order Ambiguities in Basque 2 nd Workshop on Syntax and Semantics, (Univesitat de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Nantes University, University of the Basque Country). Barcelona. ATTENDANCE TO OTHER SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 2007: Birdsong, Speech and Language: Converging Mechanisms, Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS, University of Utrecht. Utrecht, The Netherlands 2006: Of Minds and Language: an encounter with Noam Chomsky XXV Cursos de Verano XVIII Cursos Europeos organizados por la Universidad del País Vasco Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. San Sebastian 2005: BrainVision User Workshop Brain Products. Barcelona 2005: BESA Workshop: from raw data to source images and source coherence. Brain Products. Barcelona 2003: EALing 2003 Fall school in Linguistics Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure. Paris. 2003: Language Contact: Linguistic and Neurocognitive Aspects XXII Cursos de Verano XV Cursos Europeos organizados por la Universidad del País Vasco Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. San Sebastian. 2003: VI Simposio de Psicolingüística Universitat de Barcelona (UB). Barcelona 2002: Euskal gramatika XXI. mendearen atarian: arazo zaharrak, azterbide berriak [Basque Grammar in XXIth century: old problems, new solutions]. XXI Cursos de Verano XIV Cursos Europeos organizados por la Universidad del País Vasco Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. San Sebastian. 2002: XII Colloquium on Generative Grammar Linguistic association of Portugal (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Universidade de Lisboa). Lisboa. 1998: Tradiziozko filologiatik hizkuntzalaritzara kanpo lan bitarte [From traditional philology to linguistics]. Linguistic department of Basque Summer University. Pamplona. 1997: Euskal literaturaren bidetxur batzuk: Mirande, emakume idazleak eta Sarrionandia [Some short cuts of Basque literature: Mirande, women writers and Sarrionandia University of the Basque Country. Vitoria-Gasteiz. 1997: Koldo Mitxelena katedraren lehen biltzarra (1987-1997) [Koldo Mitxelena s Chair s first meeting] University of the Basque Country. Vitoria-Gasteiz. 5
ATTENDANCE LECTURES IN OTHER PhD PROGRAMS 2005: Christophe Palliers (CNRS, INSERM-CEA U562) lecture in the Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge PhD program 2004: Antoni Rodriguez-Fornells (Universitat de Barcelona, ICREA) lecture in Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge PhD program 2003: Yosef Grodzinskys (McGill University, Tel Aviv University) lecture in the Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge PhD program 2002: Andrea Moro (Università Vita-Salute San Rafaele) lecture in the Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge PhD program 2001: Brenda Rapp (John Hopkins University) lecture in the Ciència Cognitiva i Llenguatge PhD program UNPUBLISHED RESEARCH In progress: Complex Grammar Learning. This is the current research in which we are exploring the minimal cues learning an artificial language. Researcher team: Christophe Pallier (CNRS, INSERM-CEA U562), Stanislas Dehaene (College de France). In progress: Word order and grammatical complexity. We are investigating the behavioral and electrophysiological differences processing different word orders in Basque (free word order of constituents). Research team: Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country) and Antoni Rodriguez Fornells (ICREA, UB). In progress: Processing of Agreement and Case marking in native and late Basque bilinguals using ERPs. Researcher team: prof. Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country), prof. Nuría Sebastián (Universitat de Barcelona) and PhD Begoña Díaz (Universitat de Barcelona). 2002: Elaboration of the Basque version of The CNL Language Creating Battery (created in Harvard by Caramazza s group) for the linguistic approach of aphasia with the collaboration of Itziar Laka (U. of the Basque Country). 2001: Running experiments with Basque/Spanish bilinguals for the Universitat de Barcelona at the University of the Basque Country s premises. OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES 2008: In charge of the ELEBILAB stand in Science Popularization Week of the University of the Basque Country (13 th -15 th of November) 2008: Member of Eusko Ikaskuntza Basque Studies Society (EI-BSS). http://www.eusko-ikaskuntza.org/en 6
2008: Member of Cognitive Neuroscience Society. https://cogneurosociety.org 2006: Taking official notes for the Of Minds and Language: an encounter with Noam Chomsky XXV Cursos de Verano XVIII Cursos Europeos organizados por la Universidad del País Vasco Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea. San Sebastian. 2000-2006: Founder member of HIM (Linguistics PhD Students Seminar at the University of the Basque Country) 2004-: Member of KHiTT (Sign Langauge Researcher Group, U. of the Basque Country) 7