Dr Joanne Arciuli
PhD
Senior Lecturer
C43S - S Block Cumberland Campus
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Dr Arciuli’s PhD in Psycholinguistics was conferred by Macquarie University (Australia) in 2004. Her postdoctoral fellowship was undertaken in the Psychology department at University College London (UK). Dr Arciuli's areas of expertise include language, literacy and learning. In the area of language she is best known for her work on prosody (which spans healthy adults, typically developing children, and children with autism). An ARC Discovery Project led by Dr Arciuli in 2013 will focus on an aspect of prosody known as lexical stress. The project will explore the normal developmental trajectory of children’s production of lexical stress, as well as atypical speech production in children with developmental disabilities such as autism. Her research on the production and awareness of prosody is directly linked with key aspects of her research on literacy. For example, previous ARC funded research led by Dr Arciuli, extended connectionist approaches to reading to accommodate the reading aloud of polysyllabic words (in particular, with regard to the assignment of lexical stress). In addition, much of her literacy research centres on reading and spelling development in children with developmental disabilities (e.g., autism; Down syndrome; auditory processing difficulties). Dr Arciuli’s research in the areas of language and literacy are complemented by her research program on implicit learning, especially statistical learning, which is a mechanism thought to contribute to oral and written language proficiency.
Research interests
Dr Arciuli’s research spans the disciplines of Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience and Speech Pathology. She has received 4 ARC grants as a Chief Investigator and produced over 100 research outputs – including 42 peer-reviewed journal articles. These articles have been published in highly ranked international journals such as Cortex (IF: 6.08), Cerebral Cortex (IF: 6.54), Developmental Science (IF: 3.88), Neuropsychologia (IF: 3.63), and Brain and Language (IF: 3.11). Her research methods include corpus analyses, behavioural testing, brain imaging (fMRI, PET), and computational modeling. She has published studies on English, Italian, and Japanese. She is currently collaborating with researchers in the US, UK, Norway, and Singapore.
Dr Arciuli is on the Editorial Board of the journal Scientific Studies of Reading. She has hosted a number of scientific meetings. One meeting was on written language, the proceedings of which were published in issues of journals she guest-edited; Journal of Neurolinguistics and also Reading and Writing. Another was on communication in autism – she is co-editing a book on the topic for the Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR) series. She is a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded AusTALK Project which will create Australia's largest audio-visual corpus of Australian English speech collected from 1000 adults Australia-wide.
Teaching and supervision
Dr Arciuli has taught at three tertiary institutions. She has taught at every level from first year undergraduate to Masters by coursework. Subject development, coordination and teaching: Research Methods and Statistics, Cognition, Introductory Psychology, Clinical Linguistics, Phonetics, Language Impairments in Children, Literacy. Currently, she is primary supervisor for 4 PhD students and 2 Masters by research students.
Selected grants
2013
- Discovering the Developmental Trajectory of Lexical Stress Production; Arciuli J, Ballard K, Vogel A; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2012
- The Development of Speech Production: Focus on Prosody; Arciuli J, Ballard K, Vogel A; DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
2010
- The Big Australian Speech Corpus: An audion-visual speech corpus of Australian English; Arciuli J; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF).
2008
- A cross-linguistic investigation of lexical stress using corpus analyses, behavioural testing and computational modelling; Arciuli J; Australian Research Council/Linkage International: Internationally Coordinated Initiatives (ICI) - Social Sciences Collaboration.
Selected publications
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