Publications
2026
Scholarly publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Koskulu, S., Stolvoort, J., Oppeneer, N., de Graaff, R., Paradis, J., & Tribushinina, E. (2025). Effects of bilingualism on foreign language learning during kindergarten years: investigating underlying mechanisms. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E., Stolvoort, J., Op ten Berg, Z., Boz, B., Mackaaij, M., & Franssen, A. (2025). Bringing home languages to the EFL classroom: a plurilingual metalinguistic intervention in special education. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Advance online publication. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., Radić, A., & Hržica, G. (2024). Bilingual effects in foreign language learning. Nota Bene, 1(2), 208-224.
Stolvoort, J., Mackaaij, M., & Tribushinina, E. (2024). Age of Onset, Motivation, and Anxiety as Predictors of Grammar and Vocabulary Outcomes in English as a Foreign Language Learners with Developmental Language Disorder. Journal of Communication Disorders, 108, Article 106407. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Santos, A. L., & Tribushinina, E. (Eds.) (2023). Syntactic bootstrapping in the acquisition of semantics: Recent developments. Special issue, Journal of Child Language, 50(5), 1041−1285. Journal of Child Language, 50(5). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/issue/F76554F0333BB19331352378B18361C0
Sun, H., & Tribushinina, E. (Eds.) (2023). Individual differences in child heritage bilinguals. Journal of Child Language, 50(4), 793−1039. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-language/issue/1067FE14DD806D53500A4F82F353EA68
Tribushinina, E., & Mackaaij, M. (2023). Bilingual advantages in foreign language learning: evidence from primary-school pupils with developmental language disorder. Frontiers in Education, 8, 1-18. Article 1264120. [DOI] [Repository]
Tskhovrebova, E., Zufferey, S., & Tribushinina, E. (2023). Vocabulary size and exposure to print predict mastery of connectives in teenage years. Discourse Processes, 60(10), 722-740. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Niemann, G., & Meuwissen, J. (2023). Explicit cognate instruction facilitates vocabulary learning by foreign language learners with developmental language disorder. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 39(3), 248-265. [DOI] [Repository]
Stolvoort, J., Meuwissen, J., Mackaaij, M., Boekel, T., & Tribushinina, E. (2023). Het leren van het Engels als vreemde taal door kinderen met een taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS): Een meertalige CodeTaal-interventie. Levende Talen Tijdschrift, 24(2), 29-39. https://lt-tijdschriften.nl/ojs/index.php/ltt/article/view/2328 [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, P. (2023). Linguistic advantages of bilingualism: The acquisition of Dutch pronominal gender. In R. Supheert, G. Cascio, & J. ten Thije (Eds.), The Riches of Intercultural Communication: Multilingual and Intercultural Competences Approaches (Vol. 2, pp. 59-75). Brill. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina-Elgart, E., & Mak, P. (2023). Effects of early foreign language instruction and L1 transfer on vocabulary skills of EFL learners with DLD. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 37(8), 683-700. [DOI] [Repository]
2022
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, P. (2022). Production of pronoun gender by children acquiring Russian as a minority language: Comparison with the effects of developmental language disorder. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 27, 223-249. [DOI] [Repository]
Tskhovrebova, E., Zufferey, S., & Tribushinina, E. (2022). French-speaking teenagers’ mastery of connectives: The role of vocabulary size and exposure to print. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(5), 1141-1163. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Willemsen, M., Kramer, E., & Mak, P. (2022). Incremental processing of prenominal modifiers by three-year-olds: Effects of prototypicality and referential contrast. In R. Levie, A. Bar-On, O. Ashkenazi, E. Dattner, & G. Brandes (Eds.), Developing Language and Literacy: Studies in Honour of Dorit Diskin Ravid (pp. 81-103). Springer. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Niemann, G., Meuwissen, J., Mackaaij, M., & Lahdo, G. (2022). Teaching foreign language grammar to primary-school children with developmental language disorder: A classroom-based intervention study. Journal of Communication Disorders, 100, 1-16. Article 106269. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Op ten Berg, Z., & Karman, S. (2022). Facilitating positive L1 transfer through explicit spelling instruction for EFL learners with dyslexia: An intervention study. Language Awareness, 31(3), 351–370. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Irmawati, M., & Mak, P. (2022). Macrostructure in the narratives of Indonesian-Dutch bilinguals: Relation to age and exposure. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 12(4), 540–570. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Tribushinina, E., & Boekel, T. (2022). CodeTaal app: Engelse lessen voor kinderen met taalontwikkelingsstoornis (TOS). Web publication/site http://www.uu.nl/codetaal
2021
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., Rijkers - Baranova, A., & Blom, E. (2021). De rol van meertalige kennis en taalbewustzijn bij het leren van Engels als vreemde taal. Levende Talen Tijdschrift, 22(4), 15-26. https://lt-tijdschriften.nl/ojs/index.php/ltt/article/view/2211 [Repository]
2020
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., & Dingemanse, M. (Eds.) (2020). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2020. John Benjamins. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina-Elgart, E., & Rabkina, N. (2020). Can children with DLD acquire a second language in a foreign-language classroom? Effects of age and cross-language relationships. Journal of Communication Disorders, 88, Article 106049. [DOI] [Repository]
Piggott, L., Tribushinina, E., & de Graaff, H. C. J. (2020). The icing on the cake? Effects of explicit form-focused instruction after two years of implicit EFL learning. In W. Lowie, M. Michel, A. Rousse-Malpat, M. Keijzer, & R. Steinkrauss (Eds.), Usage Based Dynamics in Second Language Development (pp. 249-270). Multilingual Matters.
Mak, P., Lomako, J., Gagarina, N., Abrosova, E., & Tribushinina, E. (2020). Keeping two languages apart: Connective processing in both languages of Russian-German bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 23(3), 532-541. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, P. (2020). Production of additive connectives by L2 speakers: The i–and-a challenge in Russian. In E. Fortuin, P. Houtzagers, & J. Kalsbeek (Eds.), Dutch Contributions to the Sixteenth International Congress of Slavists. Linguistics (pp. 219-240). (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics; Vol. 44). Brill. [DOI] [Portal]
Tribushinina, E., Lomako, J., Gagarina, N., Abrosova, E., & Mak, P. (2020). Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals: Evidence from eye-tracking. In V. Torrens (Ed.), Typical and Impaired Processing in Morphosyntax John Benjamins. https://benjamins.com/catalog/lald.64.08tri
2019
Scholarly publications
Berns, J. K. M., & Tribushinina, E. (Eds.) (2019). Linguistics in the Netherlands 2019. John Benjamins. [DOI]
2018
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2018). Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations: What’s wrong with them? In A. Xanthos, & C. Surcouf (Eds.), Mélanges offerts en hommage à Marianne Kilani-Schoch (pp. 259-275). (Cahiers de l'ILSL; Vol. 56). Université de Lausanne.
Tribushinina, E., Mak, M., Dubinkina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2018). Adjective production by Russian-speaking children with Developmental Language Disorder and Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals: Disentangling the profiles. Applied Psycholinguistics, 39(5), 1033-1064. [DOI] [Repository]
Professional publications
Tribushinina, E. (2018). Hoe eerder hoe beter? Vreemdetalenonderwijs voor kinderen met een taalontwikkelingsstoornis. Web publication/site http://vhz-online.nl/hoe-eerder-hoe-beter-vreemdetalenonderwijs-voor-kinderen-met-een-taalontwikkelingsstoornis
2017
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2017). Do degree adverbs guide adjective learning cross-linguistically? A comparison of Dutch and Russian. Linguistics, 55(4), 899-933. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., & Gillis, S. (2017). Advances and lacunas in usage-based studies of first language acquisition. In J. Evers-Vermeul, & E. Tribushinina (Eds.), Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching (pp. 13-46). (Studies on Language Acquisition (SLOA); Vol. 55). De Gruyter Mouton.
Tribushinina, E., Valcheva, E., & Gagarina, N. (2017). Acquisition of additive connectives by Russian-German bilinguals: A usage-based approach. In J. Evers-Vermeul, & E. Tribushinina (Eds.), Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching (pp. 207-232). (Studies on Language Acquisition (SOLA); Vol. 55). De Gruyter Mouton.
Tribushinina, E., & Evers-Vermeul, J. (2017). Language acquisition and language teaching in the usage-based framework. In J. Evers-Vermeul, & E. Tribushinina (Eds.), Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching (pp. 1-10). (Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]; Vol. 55). De Gruyter Mouton. [DOI] [Portal]
Evers-Vermeul, J., & Tribushinina, E. (Eds.) (2017). Usage-based approaches to language acquisition and language teaching. (Studies on Language Acquistion [SOLA]; Vol. 55). De Gruyter Mouton.
Mak, W. M., Tribushinina, E., Lomako, J., Gagarina, N., Abrosova, E., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2017). Connective processing by bilingual children and monolinguals with specific language impairment: distinct profiles. Journal of Child Language, 44(2), 329-345. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Mak, W. M., Andreiushina, E., Dubinkina, E., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2017). Connective use in the narratives of bilingual children and monolingual children with SLI. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(1), 98-113. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Tribushinina, E., Rabkina, N., Dubinkina, E., & De Smet, D. (2017). Hoe eerder hoe beter? Leeftijdseffecten in het vreemdetalenonderwijs. Paper presented at Vreemdetalenonderwijs voor kinderen met een taalontwikkelingsstoornis, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2017). The acquisition of grammatical gender by simultaneous Dutch-Russian bilinguals: Insights from production and online processing of pronouns. Paper presented at Experimental Psycholinguistics, Mahon, Spain.
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2017). Linguistic advantages of bilingualism: Positive transfer in the acquisition of Dutch grammatical gender. Paper presented at Crossing Borders: Challenging Linguistic and Cultural Diversity.
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2017). The acquisition of Dutch pronominal gender: Bilingual bootstrapping?. Paper presented at Grote Taaldag 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands.
2016
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2016). Ce que les corpus de production orale ne peuvent montrer: apports de l'oculométrie (eye-tracking) dans la recherche sur le bilinguisme et sur la dysphasie. In M. Kilani-Schoch, C. Surcouf, & A. Xanthos (Eds.), Nouvelles technologies et standards méthodologiques en linguistique (pp. 161-196). (Cahiers de l'ILSL ; Vol. 45). Université de Lausanne. http://www.unil.ch/clsl/fr/home/menuinst/publications/les-cahiers.html
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2016). Three-year-olds can predict a noun based on an attributive adjective: evidence from eye-tracking. Journal of Child Language, 43(2), 425-441. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2016). Production and processing of pronominal gender by Dutch-Russian bilinguals. Paper presented at Workshop related to the doctoral defense of Bibi Janssen.
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, W. M. (2016). Incremental processing of adjective-noun phrases in three-year-olds. Paper presented at 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor, United Kingdom.
Mak, W. M., & Tribushinina, E. (2016). Semantics of additive connectives guides referential processing: An eye-tracking study of connective processing in Dutch and Russian. Paper presented at 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor, United Kingdom.
2015
Scholarly publications
Koster, M. P., Tribushinina, E., De Jong, P., & van den Bergh, H. H. (2015). Teaching Children to Write: A Meta-Analysis of Writing Intervention Research. Journal of Writing Research, 7(2), 299-324. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E., Voeikova, M., & Noccetti, S. (2015). Adjective acquisition across languages. In E. Tribushinina, M. Voeikova, & S. Noccetti (Eds.), Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition (pp. 1-22). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tribushinina, E. (2015). The role of paradigmatic semantic relations in adjective acquisition: Evidence from two Russian-speaking children. In E. Tribushinina, M. Voeikova, & S. Noccettii (Eds.), Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition (pp. 218−242). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tribushinina, E., Voeikova, M., & Noccetti, S. (Eds.) (2015). Semantics and Morphology of Early Adjectives in First Language Acquisition. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina, E., & Sanders, T. (2015). Can connective use differentiate between children with and without specific language impairment? First Language, 35(1), 3. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Mak, W. M., & Tribushinina, E. (2015). What speech production corpora cannot tell us: Insights from eye-tracking in research on bilingualism and specific language impairment. Paper presented at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) XI (Utrecht), Utrecht, Netherlands.
2014
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., van den Bergh, H., Ravid, D., Aksu-Koç, A., Kilani-Schoch, M., Korecky-Kröll, K., Leibovitch-Cohen, I., Laaha, S., Nir, B., Dressler, W. U., & Gillis, S. (2014). Development of adjective frequencies across semantic classes: A growth curve analysis of child speech and child-directed speech. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 5(2), 185-226. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E. (2014). Comprehension of degree modifiers by pre-school children: What does it mean to be ‘a bit cold’? Folia Linguistica, 48(1), 255-276. [DOI] [Repository]
Other output
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, P. (2014). Kennen tweetalige Russisch-Nederlandse kinderen het verschil tussen и en а?. Abstract from Nederlands-Vlaamse slavistendagen 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Tribushinina, E., & Mak, P. (2014). What speech production corpora cannot tell us: Insights from eye-tracking in research on bilingualism and SLI. Abstract from New technologies and methodological standards in linguistics, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2013
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., van den Bergh, H. H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskienė, I., Hrzica, G., Korecky-Kröll, K., Noccetti, S., & Dressler, W. U. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: Longitudinal study of spontaneous child speech. First Language, 33(6), 594-616.
Tribushinina, E., Gillis, S., & De Maeyer, S. (2013). Infrequent word classes in the speech of two- to seven-year-old children with cochlear implants and their normally hearing peers: A longitudinal study of adjective use. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology, 77(3), 356-361. [DOI] [Repository]
Mak, W. M., Tribushinina, E., & Andreiushina, E. (2013). Semantics of connectives guides referential expectations in discourse: An eye-tracking study of Dutch and Russian. Discourse Processes, 50(8), 557-576.
Tribushinina, E. (2013). Adjective semantics, world knowledge and visual context: Comprehension of size terms by two- to seven-year-old Dutch-speaking children. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 42(3), 205-225. [DOI] [Repository]
Głaz, A., Moist, M. L., & Tribushinina, E. (2013). Vantage Theory: A View on Language, Cognition and Categorization. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tribushinina, E. (2013). Spatial adjectives in Dutch child language: Towards a usage-based model of adjective acquisition. In C. Paradis, J. Hudson, & U. Magnusson (Eds.), Conceptual Spaces and the Construal of Spatial Meaning: Empirical Evidence from Human Communication (pp. 263-286). Oxford University Press.
Tribushinina, E. (2013). Vantage theory and linguistics: An assessment of framework and methodology. In A. Głaz, M. L. Moist, & E. Tribushinina (Eds.), Vantage Theory: A View on Language, Cognition and Categorization (pp. 293-338). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Professional publications
Tribushinina, E. (2013). Kennis van bijvoeglijk naamwoorden: Goede indicator van taalachterstanden en beter ontwikkelde grammatica. Tijdschrift voor Remedial Teaching, 21(4), 6-9.
Other output
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina, E., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2013). Why are causal uses of Russian additive connectives problematic for children with SLI?. Poster session presented at EUCLDIS workshop “The Development of language and cognition in children with linguistic and cognitive challenges”, NIAS, Wassenaar.
2012
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E., & Dubinkina, E. (2012). Adjective production by Russian-speaking children with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 26(6), 554-571. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E., & Gillis, S. (2012). The acquisition of scalar structures: Production of adjectives and degree markers by Dutch-speaking children and their caregivers. Linguistics, 50(2), 241-268.
Tribushinina, E. (2012). Comprehension of relevance implicatures by pre-schoolers: The case of adjectives. Journal of Pragmatics, 44(14), 2035-2044.
Other output
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina, E., Gagarina, N., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2012). Discourse coherence in bilingualism and SLI. Poster session presented at Poster presented at the ZAS-Evaluation Meeting, Berlin.
Tribushinina, E., Dubinkina, E., Gagarina, N., & Sanders, T. J. M. (2012). Discourse coherence in bilingualism and specific language impairment. Paper presented at Poster presented at the ZAS-Klausur-Meeting, Berlin.
2011
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2011). Boundedness and relativity: A contrastive study of English and Russian. Languages in Contrast, 11(1), 106-128. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E. (2011). Piecemeal acquisition of boundedness: Degree modifiers of adjectives in Dutch child language. In G. Bochner, P. De Brabanter, M. Kissine, & D. Rossi (Eds.), Cognitive and Empirical Pragmatics: Issues and Perspectives (pp. 93-116). (Belgian Journal of Linguistics; No. 25). John Benjamins.
Tribushinina, E. (2011). Cognitive reference points in adjective-noun conceptual integration networks. In S. Handl, & H. J. Schmid (Eds.), Windows to the Mind: Metaphor, Metonymy, Conceptual Blending (pp. 269-290). De Gruyter Mouton. [DOI]
Tribushinina, E., & Janssen, T. (2011). Re-conceptualizing scale boundaries: The case of Dutch helemaal. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(7), 2043-2056. [DOI] [Repository]
Tribushinina, E. (2011). Conceptual motivation in adjectival semantics: Cognitive reference points revisited. In K.-U. Panther, & G. Radden (Eds.), Motivation in Grammar and the Lexicon (pp. 215-232). (Human Cognitive Processing; No. 27). John Benjamins.
Tribushinina, E. (2011). Once again on norms and comparison classes. Linguistics, 49(3), 525-553. [DOI] [Repository]
2010
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2010). The cognitive status of the norm. In G. I. Lushnikova, L. P. Prokhorova, S. V. Omelichkina, E. N. Ermolaeva, N. S. Sokolova, & E. J. Mokrushina (Eds.), Concept and culture (pp. 494-500). Kemerovo University Press.
Rakhilina, E., & Tribushinina, E. (2010). The Russian instrumental-of-comparison: constructional approach. In M. Grygiel, & L. A. Janda (Eds.), Slavic Linguistics in a Cognitive Framework (pp. 145-174). Peter Lang . [Repository]
Tribushinina, E. (2010). Vantages on scales: A study of Russian dimensional adjectives. Language Sciences, 32, 241-258. [DOI]
Other output
Avrutin, S., De Bode, S., Tribushinina, E., & Vasic, N. (2010). When one hemisphere works for two: Language tasks following hemispherectomy. Poster session presented at NCU Research Day, Utrecht.
2009
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2009). On prototypicality of dimensional adjectives. In J. Zlatev, M. Andrén, M. Johansson Falck, & C. Lundmark (Eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition (pp. 111-128). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Tribushinina, E. (2009). The linguistics of zero: A cognitive reference point or a phantom? Folia Linguistica, 43(2), 417-461.
Tribushinina, E. (2009). Reference points in linguistic construal: Scalar adjectives revisited. Studia Linguistica, 63(2), 233-260.
2008
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2008). Neskol'ko aksiom o prilagatel'nyx-antonimax: kontrargumenty iz russkogo jazyka (Several axioms about antonymous adjectives: counterarguments from Russian). In P. Houtzagers, J. Kalsbeek, & J. Schaeken (Eds.), Dutch Contributions to the Fourteenth International Congress of Slavists (pp. 461-488). Rodopi.
Tribushinina, E. (2008). The development of scales in phylogeny and ontogeny: Path of subjectification. In G. I. Lushnikova, & L. P. Prokhorova (Eds.), Concept and Culture (pp. 737-745). Kuzbassvuzizdat.
Tribushinina, E. (2008). EGO as a cognitive reference point: The case of nevysokij and nizkij. Russian Linguistics, 32(3), 159-183.
Tribushinina, E. (2008). Do small elephants exist?: Prototypicality effects in the acquisition of dimensional adjectives. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 79(1), 31-41.
Tribushinina, E. (2008). Scalarity and intersubjectivity. In M. Kluck, & E. J. Smits (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth Semantics in the Netherlands Day (pp. 53-66). University of Groningen.
Tribushinina, E. (2008). Cognitive Reference Points: Semantics Beyond the Prototypes in Adjectives of Space and Colour. (LOT Dissertation Series ed.) LOT.
2006
Scholarly publications
Tribushinina, E. (2006). Is rond even rond in het Nederlands, Engels en Russisch? In E. Waegemans (Ed.), De taal van Peter de Grote: Russisch-Nederlandse contacten en contrasten (pp. 87-106). Acco.