Rate My Professor Ines Anton-Mendez

Ines Anton-Mendez is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, a position she has held since December 2011. She also serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology. Previously affiliated with Utrecht University's UiL OTS, Dr. Anton-Mendez holds a PhD and conducts research in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, second language acquisition, language development, speech and language processing. Her work examines processes in language production, including pronoun gender errors in L2 speakers, verb roles in sentence production, visual salience influences on speaker choices, and morphophonological effects on agreement.

Key publications by Ines Anton-Mendez include 'Whose? L2-English speakers' possessive pronoun gender errors' (Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011), 'Gender Bender: Gender Errors in L2 Pronoun Production' (Language and Speech, 2009), 'The Role of Verbs in Sentence Production' (2020), 'English possessive gender agreement in production and comprehension: Similarities and differences between young monolingual English learners and adult Mandarin-English second language learners' (2017), 'Morphophonological and conceptual effects on Dutch subject-verb agreement' (2010), 'Not just semantics: Strong frequency and weak cognate effects on semantic association in bilinguals' (2010), 'Visual salience effects on speaker choices: Direct or indirect influences on linguistic processing?' (2016), 'Markers of success: A study of twins' instructed second language acquisition' (2015), 'Spoonish Spanerisms: A Lexical Bias Effect in Spanish' (2006), and 'The Etiology of Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition in Australian School Students: A Behavior-Genetic Study' (2012). Her research has received over 510 citations. Dr. Anton-Mendez has delivered seminars at UNE, such as 'What you see is (not necessarily) what you say' in 2015, and collaborated on studies of genetic and environmental effects on second language acquisition.