Englisches Seminar

Despoina Chalyvidou, M.A.

PhD Student English Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen
M.A. English Linguistics, University of Tübingen
B.A. English Language and Literature, Aristotle University

Despoina Chalyvidou did her undergraduate studies in English Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During her undergraduate studies, she took part in the Erasmus exchange programme in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Throughout her studies, she developed a great interest in theoretical and applied linguistics. She received her M.A. in English Linguistics at the University of Tübingen in 2022, with a focus on role noun processing. In 2023, she began her doctoral research under the supervision of Andrea Weber. 


Teaching

  • SoSe 2024: Übung: Phonetics and Phonology I (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Since SoSe 2024:PS: Introduction to Research Methods in Phonetics (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany

Publications

  • Chalyvidou, D., & Weber, A. (2025). Processing the Gender Star Form in German: A Comparison of Written and Spoken Modalities. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. November, 20, 2025,  https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X251393827
  • Chalyvidou, D., & Weber, A. (2025). The Role of Grammatical Gender and Gender Stereotypes in Noun Processing: The Tug of War in Greek. Social Psychological Bulletin20, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.32872/spb.13469

     

     

Conference Talks and Posters

 

  • “Processing the gender star in German”, Poster, LILG in Düsseldorf, Germany, 12-13 August 2025.
  • "Processing the gender star in German: The role of language attitudes”, Poster, STaPs-22-Budapest/Innsbruck/Tübingen, 24-26 April 2025.
  • “Morphosyntactic Cues and Gender Processing in Modern Greek”, Poster, Crosslinguistic Perspectives on Processing and Learning in Zurich, Switzerland, 2-3 September 2024.
  • "Role noun processing and gender stereotypes in Greek", Konstanz Linguistics Conference, Germany, 21-22 March 2024.
  • "Role noun processing and gender stereotypes in Greek" Poster, 14th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics in Athens, Greece 18-20 October 2023.
  • "The impact of grammatical gender and gender stereotypicality on role noun processing" Poster, 43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics in Thessaloniki, Greece 4-7 May 2023.