Research Interests
Second language acquisition, experimental semantics, syntax/semantics interface
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Linguistics
Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures
Professor, Spanish and Portuguese
Professor, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Professor, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Ionin, T., & Luchkina, T. (2018). Focus on russian scope: An experimental investigation of the relationship between quantifier scope, prosody, and information structure. Linguistic Inquiry, 49(4), 741-779. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00288
Recent Publications
Chen, C. Y., & Ionin, T. (2023). Interpretation of Mandarin pronouns and reflexives by L1-Korean and L1-English learners of Mandarin. Second Language Research, 39(4), 941-968. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583221103744
Ionin, T., Luchkina, T., & Goldshtein, M. (Accepted/In press). Contrastive focus is acquirable: An investigation of Russian contrastive focus with English/Russian bilinguals. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231178101
Ionin, T., Goldshtein, M., Luchkina, T., & Styrina, S. (2023). Who did what to whom, and what did we already know? Word order and information structure in heritage and L2 Russian. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 13(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.20045.ion
Wu, M. J., & Ionin, T. (Accepted/In press). The Effect of Input Flooding and Explicit Instruction on L2 Acquisition of English Inverse Scope. Language Teaching Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688231153759
Ionin, T. (2022). Semantics of Heritage Languages. In S. Montrul, & M. Polinsky (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics (pp. 668-690). (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108766340.030