Projects

                                                          RESEARCH PROJECTS

2025-2028: The Melnik Fund 'Human-AI synergies in detecting Hate Speech' (PI Dr Petre Breazu, Mentor: Katsos)

2023-2025: The Melnik Fund 'The LLM's Voice' (PI Dr Petre Breazu, Mentor: Katsos)

2021-2024: ESRC 'The effect of guided play on linguistic skills: from the psycholinguistics laboratory to the classroom' (co-PIs Katsos, Dr Jenny Gibson; PhD researchers: Joe Cowan, Blanche Gonzales de Linares)

2018– 2020:  Wiener Anspach Foundation Fellowship. ‘Acoustic hyper-sensitivity and word-learning in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders’ Fellow: Ekaterina Ostaschenko, Mentor: Katsos 

2016-2020: AHRC 'Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies' (PI: Prof Wendy Ayres-Bennett; Dr Thomas Bak (Edinburgh), Dr Jenny Gibson (Cambridge), Katsos co-PIs for Strand 6, 'Multilingualism and cognition: implications for motivation, health and well-being')

2014 – 2016: Wiener Anspach Foundation and the Isaac Newton Trust: 'The impact of bilingualism and bidialectalism on linguistics and cognitive development' (co-PIs: Katsos & Dr Mikhail Kissine, ULB; Research Associates: Dr Kyriakos Antoniou & Dr Alma Veenstra)

2014 – 2015: British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Small Project (SG-132271): ‘Learning about the world through generic statements: a cross-linguistic perspective’ (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Linnaea Stockall, QMUL; Research Associate: Dr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga )

2011 - 2012: Cambridge Humanities Research Grants: ‘Off-site and internet-based linguistic and executive functions research in bilingual children’(PI Katsos; Co-Is: Drs Theodora Alexopoulou, Henriette Hendriks, Teresa Parodi, Brechtje Post, Claire Hughes, Michelle Ellefson)

2010 – 2011: British Academy Small Project (SG-090676): ‘Bilingual language development: a comparison of morphosyntactic and semantic-pragmatic competence’ (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Ewa Haman, Warsaw)

2009 – 2010: ESRC grant ‘Studying the appropriateness of different formulations of a discourse relation in context’ (PI: Dr Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen; Co-I: Katsos)

2007 – 2009: AHRC grant ‘Experimental Investigations of Semantic-Pragmatic Inferences: Scalar Implicatures and Presuppositions’ (PI: Dr Richard Breheny, UCL; Co-I: Katsos).

2008  Isaac Newton Trust (Minute 7.49(g))(matching grant to British Academy project below)

2008  British Academy Small Project (SG-47135): ‘Is a linguistic-pragmatic deficit part of autistic symptomatology?’ (£PI: Katsos; Co-I: Prof Dorothy Bishop, Oxford).

2006  Wingate Trust Grant ‘Experimental Rhetoric: litotes and quantification’ (PI: Katsos)

                            NETWORK PROJECTS

2014 – 2017 ‘Grasping Meaning across Languages and Learners’ (GraMALL) NWO Internationalization in the Humanities; PI A van Hout, Groningen, co-Is in 9 institutions in 7 EU countries, with Katsos the co-I in Cambridge

2011- 2012 ‘Why imply something when you could say it explicitly?’ Funded by the European Science Foundation Experimental Pragmatics Network (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ms Jessica Soltys, Cambridge)

2011- 2012 ‘Why imply something when you could say it explicitly?’ Funded by the European Science Foundation Experimental Pragmatics Network (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Marina Terkourafi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ms Jessica Soltys, Cambridge)

2011-2012 ‘The cognitive foundations of pragmatic development’ Funded by the European Science Foundation Experimental Pragmatics Network (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Drs Kleanthes Grohmann & Maria Kambanaros, University of Cyprus, Mr Kyriakos Antoniou, Cambridge)

2010 – 2011 ‘Do Bilingual Children have a Selective Advantage in Pragmatics?’ Funded by the European Science Foundation Experimental Pragmatics Network (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Ewa Haman, Warsaw)

2009 – 2011 ‘Experimental Pragmatics network in the UK – XPrag-UK’ Funded by the ESRC (PI: Katsos; Co-Is: Dr Richard Breheny & Dr Nausicaa Pouscoulous, UCL).

2009 – 2011 ‘Early Competence with Inferential Communication’ Funded by the European Science Foundation Experimental Pragmatics Network (PI: Katsos; Co-I: Dr Gerlind Grosse, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)

2009 – 2013 Member of European Science Foundation ‘Euro-XPrag’ network. Chair: Dr Ira Noveck. Co-chairs: Dr Uli  Sauerland, Dr Bart Geurts.

2009 – 2013 Member of European Science Foundation COST IS0804: ‘Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment’. (PI: Prof Sharon Armon-Lotem, University of Tel Aviv; I am a member of the Working Group on ‘Syntactic / Grammatical Impairment’

 2006 – 2010 Member of the European Science Foundation COST Action A33: ‘Cross-linguistically robust stages of children’s linguistic performance’. (PI: Dr Uli Sauerland, Berlin). I am Project Leader for Working-Group 5 on ‘Quantifiers Scope and Implicature’