Dr Paloma Garcia-Bellido

Position: University Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics

Address: Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, Clarendon Press Centre, Walton St and Modern Languages, 47 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF

Research interests: Theoretical and experimental linguistics. Neuro-genetic foundations of language with special interest in mechanisms supporting auditory-motor associations needed for the production and comprehension of the Spanish language in particular and of language in general. The neuro-genetics of circuits which control the initiation,maintenance and termination of time intervals in speech and language.

Independent Research: ‘The Genetic Basis of Language’

Web page of current research: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/bellido2
Web page: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/bellido