Aleksandra Trifonova

Research interests

My current research interests focus on the interplay between domain-general skills and language processing. Of particular interest are the nature of language processing across the adult lifespan and the influence of age-related cognitive changes on this development. In my doctoral project, I investigate these phenomena in relation to syntactic processing in mono- and bilingual speakers.

Biography

since 2021: Doctoral student at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism

  Supervisors: PD Dr. Claudia Felser, Dr. Jana Reifegerste

2019-2021: Master of Science in Linguistics (University of Potsdam)

  Master’s thesis: „Morphological Processing across the Lifespan: Evidence from German Plurals“

  Supervisors: Dr. Jana Reifegerste, Dr. Laura Anna Ciaccio

2015-2019: Bachelor of Science (Russia)

Publications

Papers

Trifonova, A., & Felser, C. (2025). Sensitivity to filler-gap dependency violations in the L1 vs. L2: Evidence from speeded judgement tasks. Languages 10(2), 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages10020021

Conference presentations

Trifonova, A., & Felser. C. (2025). Sensitivity to filler-gap dependency violations during bilingual comprehension. Poster presentation at the 22th conference Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF), Lille, France

Trifonova, A., & Felser. C. (2024). Individual differences in first and second language judgements of filler-gap dependency violations. Talk at the 26th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece

Trifonova, A., & Reifegerste, J. (2022). The more you know: Age-related facilitation in the production of irregular morphology. Poster presentation at the 12th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada