Javier Aguado-Orea

I am interested in knowing more about early learning mechanisms associated with skills requiring complex cognitive systems, with a particular focus on the productive use of grammar by children. I have collected a longitudinal corpus of two children acquiring Spanish as their first language. And I have run analyses to test theoretical predictions on the extent to which children use particular combinations of words and morphemes productively (e.g., Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015; Aguado-Orea, 2022). I have also designed experimental setups, such as the preferential looking technique or grammaticality judgement studies (e.g., Aguado-Orea et al., 2016) and I have developed an online scale for assessing adults' self-perceived language skills (Joyce and Aguado-Orea, 2021). I am co-author of a textbook on Psychology of Education for undergraduates.