Núria Bosch

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I am a third-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College). I specialise in syntax and first language acquisition. I am supervised by Bert Vaux and Theresa Biberauer and I am supported by an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP - St John’s studentship. I am also an Honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar. My PhD project is outlined on the AHRC website.

Before my PhD, I completed a BA and MPhil (by Thesis) in Linguistics also at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College), supervised by Theresa Biberauer. 

Scholarships/Prizes 

  • Paula Menyuk Award for top-rated student abstracts (48th Boston University Conference on Language Development, BUCLD) – 2023 
  • Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP – St John’s Studentship (UKRI and St John’s College) – 2023-Present
  • Cambridge International Scholarship (Cambridge Trust) - Honorary upon receipt of OOC AHRC DTP
  • Cambridge Opportunity Master’s Studentship (Cambridge Trust) – 2022-2023
  • Hayes MPhil Scholarship (St John’s College) – 2023-2023
  • Sidney Allen Prize (MMLL Faculty) – 2022

Key publications: 

Bosch, Núria. (in prep). Categorial granularity in syntactic acquisition: a multilingual corpus study. Ms., University of Cambridge.

Bosch, Núria. (to appear) The case of Rita: incipient expressive negation in Catalan and Spanish proper nouns. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics, 16 and Proceedings of ConSOLE32. 

Bosch, Núria & Theresa Biberauer. (to appear). Emergent Syntactic Categories and Increasing Granularity: Evidence from a Multilingual Corpus Study. Proceedings of BUCLD 48. 

Bosch, Núria. (2023). Not all complementisers are late: a first look at the emergence of illocutionary complementisers in Catalan and Spanish. Isogloss 9(1)/12: 1-39. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.313

Bosch, Núria. (2023). Emergent Syntax and Maturation: a neo-emergentist approach to syntactic development. MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge.

Bosch, Núria. (2023). Not all complementisers are late: a first look at the emergence of illocutionary complementisers in Catalan and Spanish. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 15: 1-38.

Bosch, Núria. (2022). Emergence, Complexity and Developing Grammars: a reinterpretation from a Dynamical Systems perspective. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics 14(1): 1-33.

Other activities and roles

Editorial experience

2023-Present. Co-editor of the Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL)

2023-2024. (ad hoc) Associate Copyeditor at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)

2023-2024. Associate Editor (Academic) at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)

2022-2023. Associate Editor (Production) at the Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain (JoULAB)

 Committee roles

2023-Present. Committee Member at the Cambridge University Linguistics Society (CU LingSoc)

2023-Present. Committee Member at the Cambridge University Catalan Society (CUCAT)

2021-2023. President of the St John’s College Linguistics Society

 

 

Research

I am interested in syntax (theoretical, comparative, diachronic), language acquisition and biolinguistics. In my work, I probe a so-called neo-emergentist approach to language acquisition and variation, which assumes a maximally impoverished Universal Grammar. I have a keen interest in interdisciplinary approaches to language. My PhD project studies the role of ‘(categorial) granularity’ in acquisition and language change, incorporating, primarily, novel morphosyntactic case studies and also phonological ones.