Marina Kalashnikova

Ikerbasque Research Fellow, BCBL

Ikerbasque research fellow at BCBL.

Research line:

Environmental and neurobiological precursors of language development in the first years of life.

Ramon y Cajal Research Fellow (2020-2025), Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow (2018-2020).

Previous research experience as a Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2018) at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University, Australia.

PhD in Psychology (2013) from Lancaster University, United Kingdom.

Publications
Congresses & Proceedings

2024

Article / Infants’ Lexical Processing: Independent Contributions of Attentional and Clarity Cues

Language Learning and Development

Lovcevic, I.; Burnham, D.; Kalashnikova, M.

2023

Chapter / Rhythmic Structure in Infant-Directed Communication

Rhythms of Speech and Language

Kalashnikova, M., Fernandez-Merino, L., Russo, S.

Article / Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants’ expressive language abilities

Plos One

1. Brookman, R., Kalashnikova, M., Conti, J., Levickis, P., Xu Rattanasone, N., Grant, K.A., Demuth, K., & Burnham, D.

Article / Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD. Brain and Language

Brain and Language

2. Peter, V., Goswami, U., Burnham, D., & Kalashnikova, M.

Article / Bilingual infants readily orient to novel stimuli

Journal of Experimental Psychology

Singh, L., Kalashnikova, M., & Quinn, P.

Article / Seeing a Talking Face Matters: Gaze Behavior and the Auditory–Visual Speech Benefit in Adults’ Cortical Tracking of Infant-directed Speech

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Jessica Tan, S.H.; Kalashnikova, M.; Di Liberto, G.M.; Crosse, M.J.; Burnham, D.

Article / Seeing a talking face matters: Infants' segmentation of continuous auditory-visual speech

Infancy

Tan, S.H.J.; Kalashnikova, M.; Burnham, D.

Article / Effects of maternal depression on maternal responsiveness and infants' expressive language abilities

PLoS ONE

Brookman, R.; Kalashnikova, M.; Levickis, P.; Conti, J.; Rattanasone, N.X.; Grant, K.A.; Demuth, K.; Burnham, D.

Article / Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD

Brain and Language

Peter, V.; Goswami, U.; Burnham, D.; Kalashnikova, M.

Article / Phonetic accommodation in non-native directed speech supports L2 word learning and pronunciation

Scientific Reports

Piazza, G.; Kalashnikova, M.; Martin, C.D.

Article / The development of tone discrimination in infancy: Evidence from a cross-linguistic, multi-lab report

Developmental Science

Kalashnikova, M.; Singh, L.; Tsui, A.; Altuntas, E.; Burnham, D.; Cannistraci, R.; Chin, N.B.; Feng, Y.; Fernández-Merino, L.; Götz, A.; Gustavsson, L.; Hay, J.; Höhle, B.; Kager, R.; Lai, R.; Liu, L.; Marklund, E.; Nazzi, T.; Oliveira, D.S.; Olstad, A.M.H.; Picaud, A.; Schwarz, I.C.; Tsao, F.M.; Wong, P.C.M.; Woo, P.J.

Article / Everyday language input and production in 1,001 children from six continents

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Bergelson, E.; Soderstrom, M.; Schwarz, I.C.; Rowland, C.F.; Ramírez-Esparza, N.; Hamrick, L.R.; Marklund, E.; Kalashnikova, M.; Guez, A.; Casillas, M.; Benetti, L.; van Alphen, P.; Cristia, A.

2022

Article / Infants’ lexical processing: Independent contributions of attentional and clarity cues.

Language Learning and Development

3. Lovcevic, I., Burnham, D., & Kalashnikova, M.

Article / Input quality and speech perception development in bilingual infants’ first year of life

Child Development

Kalashnikova, M.; Carreiras, M.

Article / Language specificity in cortical tracking of speech rhythm at the mora, syllable, and foot levels

Scientific Reports

Peter, V.; van Ommen, S.; Kalashnikova, M.; Mazuka, R.; Nazzi, T.; Burnham, D.

Article / Seeing a talking face matters: The relationship between cortical tracking of continuous auditory‐visual speech and gaze behaviour in infants, children and adults

NeuroImage

Jessica Tan, S.H.; Kalashnikova, M.; Di Liberto, G.M.; Crosse, M.J.; Burnham, D.

Article / The tone atlas of perceptual discriminability and perceptual distance: Four tone languages and five language groups

Brain and Language

Liu, L.; Lai, R.; Singh, L.; Kalashnikova, M.; Wong, P.C.M.; Kasisopa, B.; Chen, A.; Onsuwan, C.; Burnham, D.

Review / The Acoustic Features and Didactic Function of Foreigner-Directed Speech: A Scoping Review

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Piazza, G.; Martin, C.D.; Kalashnikova, M.

Review / Language development in infants with hearing loss: Benefits of infant-directed speech

Infant Behavior and Development

Lovcevic, I.; Burnham, D.; Kalashnikova, M.

2021

Article / The effects of bilingualism on attentional processes in the first year of life

Developmental Science

Kalashnikova, M.; Pejovic, J.; Carreiras, M.

Article / Lexical and Prosodic Pitch Modifications in Cantonese Infant-directed Speech

Journal of Child Language

Wang, L.; Kalashnikova, M.; Kager, R.; Lai, R.; Wong, P.C.M.

Article / Rhythm discrimination and metronome tapping in 4-year-old children at risk for developmental dyslexia

Cognitive Development

Kalashnikova, M.; Burnham, D.; Goswami, U.

Article / The Role of Paired Associate Learning in Acquiring Letter-Sound Correspondences: A Longitudinal Study of Children at Family Risk for Dyslexia

Scientific Studies of Reading

Kalashnikova, M.; Burnham, D.; Goswami, U.

2020

Article / Maternal depression affects infants’ lexical processing abilities in the second year of life

Brain Sciences

Brookman, R.; Kalashnikova, M.; Conti, J.; Rattanasone, N.X.; Grant, K.A.; Demuth, K.; Burnham, D.

2023

Conference paper | An Amodal study of phonological abstraction in early infancy

Altuntas, E.,Best, C., Kalashnikova, M., Goetz, A., Burnham, D.

Conference paper | Origins of Phonology and Lexicon in Infancy (OPAL): Phonological Abstraction Before Perceptual Attunement?

Burnham, D., Best, C., Götz, A., Kalashnikova, M., Johnson, E., Altuntas, E., Cutler, A.

Invited talk | Auditory processing abilities as predictors of language and literacy skills in infants and children at family risk for dyslexia

30th Congress of the Union of European Phoniatricians - Invited talk

Kalashnikova, M.

Invited talk | Infant-directed speech: An optimal signal for speech processing in young infants

Kalashnikova, M.

Invited talk | Cortical tracking of speech in young infants

Cutting EEG, Donostia Garden - Invited talk

Kalashnikova, M.

Oral presentation | Code-switching patterns in Basque-Spanish infant-directed speech and their effects on bilingual infants’ early word learning

International Symposium on Bilingualism - Oral presentation

Kalashnikova, M., Fernandez-Merino, L.

Oral presentation | Does non-native directed speech support non-native listeners’ cortical tracking?

International Symposium of Psycholinguistics - Oral presentation

Piazza, G., Di Liberto, G., Kalashnikova, M., Perez-Navarro, J., & Martin, C.D.

Poster presentation | Rhythmic Stimulation of Cortical Tracking of Speech in Basque-Spanish Bilinguals.

Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Marseille, France. - Poster presentation

Fernández-Merino, L., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., & Kalashnikova, M.

Poster presentation | Developmental trajectory of cortical tracking of native and non-native speech stimuli in monolingual and bilingual infants.

Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Marseille, France. - Poster presentation

Mornati, G., Molinaro, N., Lallier, M., Carreiras, M., & Kalashnikova, M.

Poster presentation | Cortical Tracking of Native and Non-Native Speech by Monolingual and Bilingual Four-Month-Old Infants.

AMLAP 2023 - Poster presentation

Mornati, G., Molinaro, N., Lallier, M, Carreiras, M., Kalashnikova, M.

Poster presentation | Developmental trajectory of cortical tracking of native and non-native speech stimuli in monolingual and bilingual infants

Society for the Neurobiology of Language - Poster presentation

Mornati, G., Molinaro, N., Lallier, M, Carreiras, M., Kalashnikova, M.

Poster presentation | Developmental trajectory of cortical tracking of native and non-native speech stimuli in monolingual and bilingual infants

Cutting Garden EEG - Donostia 2023 - Poster presentation

Mornati, G., Molinaro, N., Lallier, M, Carreiras, M., Kalashnikova, M.

2022

Conference Paper | Prosody in Bilingual Caregiver’s Infant-directed Speech: Cues for Infants’ Acquisition of their Languages’ Intonational Structure

Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody - Conference Paper

Kalashnikova, M.; Naranjo, C.

Oral presentation | Exposure to Foreigner-Directed Speech enhances L2 word learning.

Italian Association of Psychology - Oral presentation

Piazza, G., Kalashnikova, M., & Martin, C.D.

Poster presentation | Teaching novel words: Can speech have various didactic functions?

New Sounds 2022, the 10th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech - Poster presentation

Piazza, G., Kalashnikova, M., Fernandez-Merino, L., & Martin, C.D.