Projects

2026

• DISORDERED-SPEECH: Early Identification of Dyslexia and DLD using Speech Production Measures with Children: An Innovative Cross-Language Approach

  Program: ERC-2024-ADG_101199408
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  01/2026 - 12/2030
  Funding: 275.000 €
  PI: Usha Goswami (2.500.000 €) Project coordinators in Spain: Marie Lallier & Marina Kalashnikova (275.000 €)

2025

• Bilingual-LENS: Bilinguals in the making: Language exposure and neural specialization in the first years of life

  Program: Europa Excelencia 2025, EUR2025-164836
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  12/2025 - 11/2027
  Funding: 81.383 €
  PI: Marina Kalashnikova

• WordLex: Uncovering Mechanisms of Learning Words from Context

  Program: Plan Nacional 2024, PID2024-161148NA-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2025 - 08/2029
  Funding: 91.250 €
  PI: Olivera Savic Team member: Melissa Donati

• CORTICAL RHYTHMS: Aligning Brain Rhythms: Understanding the mechanisms of cortical tracking of speech to improve language functions with real time closed-loop neurofeedback

  Program: ERC-2023-ADG–101140427
  Funding agency: European Commission (European Research Council)
  01/2025 - 12/2029
  Funding: 2.500.000 €
  PI: Manuel Carreiras Team members: Marina Kalashnikova, Marie Lallier, Nicola Molinaro, Brendan Costello, Manuela Ruzzoli, & Mikel Lizarazu

2023

• Growing-upBIL: La maduración neuronal y la exposición al lenguaje como predictores de la competencia bilinguë individual

  Program: Plan Nacional 2022, PID2022-136986NB-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2023 - 08/2027
  Funding: 112.500 €
  PI: Marina Kalashnikova

2020

• CONTUR: Conversational Turns: Early development of conversational turn-taking abilities in bilingual children

  Program: Plan Nacional 2019, PID2019-105528GA-I00
  Funding agency: Spanish Ministry
  09/2020 - 05/2023
  Funding: 48.400 €
  PI: Marina Kalashnikova

2019

• Looking for words: Early speech segmentation abilities and their relation to vocabulary development in bilingual infants

  Program: Proyectos de Investigación Básica y Aplicada 2019, PIBA_2019_1_0054
  Funding agency: Basque Government
  09/2019 - 09/2021
  Funding: 43.395 €
  PI: Maria Kalashnikova Team members: Nicola Molinaro & Manuel Carreiras