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College: St John's College
Email: mw738@cam.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof听Ianthi听M. Tsimpli
Research Topic: Linguistic and Cognitive Effects of Contextual and Individual Linguistic Diversity: Multilingualism in South Africa and the United Kingdom
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About
Mandy Wigdorowitz is a PhD candidate in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the 澳门六合彩开奖记录. She completed her MA at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in Social and Psychological Research in 2016. She is researching the psycholinguistic and cognitive effects of language experience in multilinguals with a focus on language and interaction from linguistic, social, cognitive, and psychological perspectives. In addition to her doctoral research, she is a registered Research Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and Associate Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data.
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Research
Monolingualism, bilingualism, and multilingualism
Comprehension and cognition
Language profiling
Speech and language processing
Codeswitching
Statistical analysis
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Scholarships/Prizes
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission and 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Commonwealth, European & International Trust for PhD study
Awarded funding from the 2019 Travel Grant Award 鈥� Parsons Fund from St John鈥檚 College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录
Poster prize winner at the 2019 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Language Sciences Annual Symposium, 澳门六合彩开奖记录
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Teaching
Supervisor for Language, Brain, and Society (Li3)
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Publications
Cilibrasi, L., Adani, F., Schmidt, E., P茅rez, A. I., Wigdorowitz, M., & Tsimpli, I. M. (Forthcoming). The role of number mismatch and exposure in the comprehension of relative clauses in bilingual children.
Wigdorowitz, M., Rajab, P., Hassem, T., & Titi, N. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on Psychometric Assessment across Industry and Academia in South Africa.听African Journal of Psychological Assessment, 3, a38, DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ajopa.v3i0.38
Wigdorowitz, M., P茅rez, A. I., & Tsimpli, I. M. (2020). A holistic measure of contextual and individual linguistic diversity.听International Journal of Multilingualism. DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2020.1835921
Wigdorowitz, M. (2020). A closer look at the Contextual Linguistic Profile Questionnaire (CLiP-Q). U-Lingua: The Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain鈥檚 Quarterly Magazine, 3, 18-19. https://issuu.com/u-lingua/docs/u-lingua_issue_3
Cockcroft, K.,听Wigdorowitz, M., Liversage, A. (2019). A multilingual advantage in the components of working memory.听Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 22(1), 15鈥�29. doi:10.1017/S1366728917000475
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Conference papers
2021
A holistic measure of sociolinguistic experience: Contextual and individual linguistic diversity in South Africa and the United Kingdom. International Test Commission鈥檚 12th Conference on Tests and Testing. [Symposium: Innovations in assessment: Case studies from South Africa]
2020
The role of English as home or first language in reading comprehension and inferencing skills of South African university students. 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab (CamPAL), online. [Invited speaker]
The Contextual Linguistic Profile Questionnaire: Demonstrating the need for contextual linguistic diversity in a holistic measure of language experience. 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers, online. [Invited speaker]
2019
A holistic measure of linguistic diversity: Contextual and individual linguistic diversity in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, with A. I. P茅rez & I. M. Tsimpli. [poster]
Towards a holistic measure of linguistic diversity: Comparing South African and United Kingdom speakers on the CLiP-Q. 25th Annual South African Psychology Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa, with A. I. P茅rez & I. M. Tsimpli.
Division for Research and Methodology Symposium 鈥� Africa's future researchers: Reflections on pursuing a PhD. 25th Annual South African Psychology Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa. [Chair and presenter]
2018
Division for Research and Methodology Roundtable: Research 鈥� Shaping the Psychologists鈥� career trajectory. 24th Annual Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa. [Chair].
The relationship between personality types and burnout. International Test Commission (ITC) Conference, Montreal, Canada, with B. Morgan & N. Taylor.
2016
Evidence for a bi(multi)lingual advantage on working memory performance in South African university students. 10th International Test Commission Conference, Vancouver, Canada, with K. Cockcroft. [poster]
Beyond therapy: Career opportunities for emerging Psychologists. 22nd Annual Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa. [invited panel discussant]
鈥淚t鈥檚 like a kind of medicine that keeps a person going鈥�: Hope discourses of urban South African adults. 22nd Annual Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, with T. Guse.
2015
First and second language performance on the D-KEFS Colour Word Interference Test. UNISA Student Conference, Durban, South Africa. [poster]
Working memory, self-reported strategy use, and language proficiency in South African university students. 21st South African Psychology听Congress, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Other activities and roles听
Registered Research Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa
Associate Editor and Copyeditor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data
Guest Editor for the special collection 鈥楬umanities Data in the time of COVID-19鈥� for the Journal of Open Humanities Data
Data Champion for the 澳门六合彩开奖记录
Research affiliation with University of Johannesburg and Wits Neuroscience Research Lab (NeuRL)
