Alicia Luque is a  César Nombela Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Nebrija Research Center in Cognition (CINC) at Nebrija University in Madrid (Spain). She is based in the Department of Applied Language Studies a the School of Languages and Education, and is a member of Nebrija’s Applied Linguistics and the Teaching of Additional Languages Research Group (LAELE).

Alicia is the Principal Investigator of CEFALO, a research program funded through the Comunidad de Madrid’s *César Nombela Talent Attraction Program*. CEFALO investigates individual diversity in adult second language learning**, examining how cognitive, socio-affective, and multilingual-experience factors interact to shape different dimensions and trajectories of language learning across formal and immersive learning contexts. Ultimately, the project seeks to advance our understanding of the many pathways through which adults learn and use additional languages.

She is also a Co-Principal Investigator on the UK-funded arm of CLIPP (Crosslinguistic Influence in Predictive Processing and Production of Morphosyntactic Features in Heritage Language Children), an international project jointly funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the German Research Foundation (DFG). Led by Dr. Vicky Chondrogianni (University of Edinburgh) on the UK side and Dr. Anamaria Bentea (University of Konstanz) on the German side, CLIPP investigates how children growing up with **Greek or Romanian as a heritage language in Germany, the UK, and Spain understand and produce grammar, and how their languages influence one another. By studying these heritage-language communities across different countries and sociolinguistic contexts, the project examines how both linguistic and environmental experience shape heritage bilingual development. 

Alicia’s broader research program sits at the intersection of applied linguistics, psych/neuroolinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neurosciences. Her work seeks to understand the individual factors that contribute to bi/multilingual development, as well as how the experience of learning and using multiple languages shapes linguistic, cognitive, and socio-affective processes.

Her primary areas of specialization are adult second and additional language acquisition, heritage bilingualism, individual differences in language learning, and bilingualism/multilingualism. She also specializes in the acquisition and processing of grammar, using behavioral, psycholinguistic, and neurolinguistic methods to investigate how multiple languages are learned, represented, and processed.

For downloadable versions of available presentations and publications visit Alicia's ResearchGate page.