Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders

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Vlasta Erdeljac (ed)
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2355-3463
Martina Sekulić Sović (ed)
Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7832-2400
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17234/9789531758314

Synopsis

Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders is a collection of scientific papers presented at the International Scientific Workshop on Clinical Linguistics, held on 20 November 2018 at the Education Centre of the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče.
The Erdeljac & Sekulić Sović research group in clinical linguistics, based at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, in collaboration with psychiatrists from the Department of Biological Psychiatry and Psychogeriatrics and the Department of Diagnostics and Intensive Care, both at the University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče, present a unique example of an academic publication designed to spotlight ongoing research on semantic processing in individuals diagnosed with psychosis spectrum disorders who are native speakers of Croatian.
A further value of this book lies in the co-authors’ contributions, written by specialists in clinical linguistics and psychiatry to expand the focus of research in clinical linguistics to other domains of language disorders while showcasing the research being undertaken at prominent institutions such as University College London, the University of Cologne, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Philipps University Marburg, the University of Belgrade, the University of Novi Sad, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jana Willer Gold
University College London
Editor-in-chief

Objavljivanje ove knjige potpomognuto je sredstvima projekta Clinical linguistics: Psycholinguistic parameters in lexical-semantic processing
in patients with schizophrenia i sredstvima Klinike za psihijatriju Vrapče.

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Vlasta Erdeljac, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

Vlasta Erdeljac, Ph.D. Full professor with tenure, is employed at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 1985. Since 2000, she holds the position of the Head of the Chair of General Linguistics. She was the Head of the Department of Linguistics from 2000 to 2002 and from 2007 to 2009. In addition to teaching at the regular undergraduate and graduate linguistics programs, she teaches seminars at the Postgraduate Doctoral Programs in Linguistics, Glottodidactics and Croatian Language at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, Doctoral University Humanities Program at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split and the ISH and AGFT Postgraduate Studies in Ljubljana (1998-2005 and 2012). In the course of her teaching career, she articulated her scientific interest in general and theoretical linguistics, as well as psycholinguistics (language processing in production and perception) in a number of different courses/subjects: Introduction to General Linguistics, Phonological Description, Morphological Description, 20th Century Linguistics, Understanding of Language, Cognitive Approach to Language, Word Recognition, and Mental Lexicon. She is the principal researcher for the projects approved by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia: ‘Range and Structure of Dictionaries for the Purposes of Educational Processes’ (2004–2007) and ‘Construction and Structure of Linguistic Identity’ since 2008 (co-financed by Banco Popolare Croatia until 2010) and is an associate researcher at the project Speech Production and Perception (principal researcher: D. Horga, Ph.D.); since 2011/2012, she is the head of the Linguistic Laboratory at the Department of Linguistics. She contributed to institutional cooperation (in teaching and research) between the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Speech and Language Pathology, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation, and the Rheumatology, Physical medicine and Rehabilitation Department of the Clinical Hospital “Sestre milosrdnice”, as well as with the SUVAG Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation Polyclinic. She is an associate at the JEKON University Postgraduate Studies (as a doctoral theses mentor and a member of committees for evaluation of synopses and dissertations). She has mentored or co-mentored 5 doctoral theses. She is a member of the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports committees for evaluation of Croatian language textbooks since 2001 and the LiDraNo competition. She is a member of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society and the Croatian Neuroscience Association. She organized the scientific conference “Worlds of Dubravko Škiljan” in November 2009 as the president of the organization committee.
Education: B.A. in General Linguistics (A1) and Phonetics (A2); M.A. (1989), Ph.D. (1996). Further training and scientific cooperation: postdoctoral research scholarship at the University of Trieste 1997; CEEPUS scholarship at the University of Vienna, Institute of Linguistics (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft), 2003; University of Ljubljana scholarship, 2011.

Martina Sekulić Sović, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb

After obtaining her MA in General Linguistics and Italian language and literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, she enrolled in interdisciplinary scientific postgraduate study program “Language and cognitive neuroscience“, University of Zagreb. As a part of her postgraduate studies, she continued her scientific specialisation in the laboratory “Cognitive neuroscience research group” at the Department of  Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, under the mentorship of  Full Professor Albert Costa, PhD. From 2006 to 2015, she was actively involved in the projects on language disorder at the University Department of Neurology and University Department of Rheumatology, Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospital Center “Sestre milosrdnice“ Zagreb. In 2015, she defended her doctoral thesis entitled “Neural Correlates of Semantic Processing in Patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy” under the mentorship of Full Professor Vlasta Erdeljac, PhD and Assisstant Professor Hrvoje Hećimović, MD, PhD, Primarius.

From 2008 to 2012, she worked as an external associate at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2015 she worked there as a research and teaching assistant and from 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017, she was elected a research associate in the scientific area of humanities, field of philology. She takes part in teaching the following courses: Introduction to Psycholinguistics, Language Disorders, Language Learning and Development, Psycholinguistic Research Methods 1 and 2. She has participated in many international and domestic scientific conferences in the field of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. In 2018, she was a member of the scientific and organizational committee of the conference “Clinical Linguistics Workshop”, organised by the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and University Psychiatric Hospital “Vrapče“ Zagreb. She has reviewed scientific papers for various international and domestic journals. She is a co-editor of the scientific book entitled “Interdisciplinary Linguistic and Psychiatric Research on Language Disorders“ together with Full Professor Vlasta Erdeljac, PhD.

Since 2013, she conducts research in cooperation with the Department of Biological Psychiatry and Psychogeriatrics and the Department for Diagnostic and Intensive Care, University Psychiatric Hospital “Vrapče“  Zagreb. She participates in various psycholinguistic projects in cooperation with Full Professor Arne Nagels, PhD, Neurolinguistics Lab, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and with Associate Professor Alexandra Perovic, PhD, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics, University College London. Since 2019, she works on the project entitled “Cognitive Science“ within postgraduate study programme “Philosophy, Science, Cognition and Semiotics“, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, University of Bologna. Since 2019, she has been a member of the working group on the project “Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics“, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb.

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