Faculty

Education:
B.Sc. (Hons) (University of Calgary)
MA (Rutgers University)
PhD (Rutgers University)

Phone: 403.440.8829
E-mail: cfourshastevenson@mtroyal.ca

TEACHING

• PSYC 2235 Lifespan Development

• PSYC 3351 Topics in Child Development

• PSYC 4900 Advanced Topics in Infant Cognition

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Central executive function, language acquisition; monolingual and bilingual language processing

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Foursha-Stevenson, C., Nicoladis, E., & Trombley, R., Hablado, K., Phung, D., & Dallaire, K. (in press). Vocabulary as a key influence over bilingualism and age in the use of syntactic information.  Psychology of Language and Communication.

Sandoval, V., & Foursha-Stevenson, C. D. (2026). Multilingualism inside and outside the family:  To what extent do sociodemographic and linguistic characteristics shape our attitudes?  Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2026.2665367

Foursha-Stevenson, C. D., Nicoladis, E., Trombley, R., Hablado, K., Phung, D., & Dallaire, K. (2024). Pronoun comprehension and cross-linguistic influence in monolingual and bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 28, 479–493. https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069231170968

Foursha-Stevenson, C. D., Blacker, K. E., Austin, J. B., & Van de Walle, G. A. (2021). Who is kissing whom? Two-year-olds’ comprehension of pronouns, case and word order. Psychology of Language and Communication, 25(1), 4–28. https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2021-0002

Nicoladis, E., Westbury, C., & Foursha-Stevenson, C. (2021). English speakers’ implicit gender concepts can influence their processing of French grammatical gender: Evidence for semantically mediated cross-linguistic influence. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.740920

Santos-Ticas, C., Foursha-Stevenson, C. D., & Phung, D. (2021). Bilingualism and Advanced Syntactic Awareness. The Journal of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, 27, 96-108. 

Szeto, A. & Foursha-Stevenson, C. (2021). Executive Function and Novel Word Learning in Active and Inactive Bilinguals. Journal of Psychological Inquiry, 25(2), 23-36. https://www.psychinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/vol25-2.pdf

Foursha-Stevenson, C., Schembri, T., Nicoladis, E., & Eriksen, C. (2016). The Influence of Child-Directed Speech on Word Learning and Comprehension. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research (Advance Online Publication).

Nicoladis, E., Da Costa, N., & Foursha-Stevenson, C. (2016). Discourse relativity in Russian-English bilingual preschoolers' classification of objects by gender. International Journal of Bilingualism, 20(1) 17-29.

Foursha-Stevenson, C., & Nicoladis, E. (2011). Early emergence of syntactic awareness and cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children's judgments. International Journal of Bilingualism, 15(4), 521-534.

Nicoladis, E., & Foursha-Stevenson, C. (2011). Language and culture effects on gender classification of objects. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1177/0022022111420144

Nicoladis, E., Rose, A., & Foursha-Stevenson, C. (2010). Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13, 345-370.