Núria Bosch

University of Cambridge • nb611 [at] cam.ac.uk • she/her

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Hello! I’m Núria Bosch [ˈnuɾiə βɔsk], a second-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College). I specialise in syntax and first language acquisition.

I’m supervised by Bert Vaux and Theresa Biberauer and I’m supported by an OOC AHRC DTP - St John’s studentship. I’m also an Honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar. My PhD project is outlined on the AHRC website.

Before my PhD, I completed a BA and MPhil in Linguistics also at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), supervised by Theresa Biberauer. You can find my full CV here.

I’m interested in syntax (theoretical, comparative, diachronic), language acquisition and biolinguistics. In my work, I probe a so-called neo-emergentist approach to language acquisition and variation, which assumes a maximally impoverished Universal Grammar. I have a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to language.

Some of the projects I’ve worked on and/or I’m interested in include:

  • Acquisition of functional categories (including cartographic categories) from a neo-emergentist perspective.
  • Structure, variation and acquisition of the left periphery.
  • Foundations of functional/extended projections (theoretically and developmentally).
  • Acquisition of illocutionary complementisers in Ibero-Romance and Italian.
  • Relationship betweeen L1 (and L2) acquirers, developmental patterns and language change.
  • Applications of dynamical systems theory and category theory in linguistics.
  • Expressive language in Catalan and Spanish, and crosslinguistically.

When not doing linguistics, I can be found reading, listening to music, coding, travelling and following Barcelona’s football games (or, more rarely, playing football). I’m originally from Ripoll, a small town in the north of Catalonia, next to the Pyrenees and near the French border.

news

Sep, 2024 I will present a talk (with Theresa Biberauer) at BCGL 17, “Categorial Acquisition by Differentiation: the acquisition of the left periphery and implications for categorisation”.
Sep, 2024 I will be giving an invited talk (online), with Theresa Biberauer, at the Lectures on Information Structure (LISTEN, KU Leuven and UCLouvain), 2 December.
Aug, 2024 I’ll be at NELS 55 (Yale University), October 17-18, presenting a poster (with Theresa Biberauer), “Not all topics are equal: syntactic complexity and its effect on the acquisition of left-peripheral structures”.
Aug, 2024 Our paper “Is there scope for scope in morphophonological rule induction?” (with Bert Vaux) was accepted at AMP 2024 as a poster.
Jul, 2024 Our paper “On another topic, how do acquisition orders vary? The left periphery and topicalisation in bilingual and monolingual acquisition” (with Theresa Biberauer) was accepted for a poster at BUCLD 49, 7-10 November. I’ll also be at MIT giving a talk at Syntax Square on 5 November!