Dr Iris Nomikou
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Interaction Development and Diversity. I am also the Department Equity Diversity and Inclusion Lead.
I joined Portsmouth University in 2016. Before that I was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Paderborn and Bielefeld University in Germany, and was working on a project on early games, social routines and infant’s developing participation as well as a project on early language development. My interest in language as social coordination led me to my PhD project which I completed in Bielefeld, Germany in 2014 on the interactional foundations of language development. Before that I studied Languages and Linguistics at the Ionian University, Greece and worked as a translator.
Research interests
I am interested in early caregiver-child interactions with a particular interest in pre-verbal communication, language development, and language socialisation. I am particulartly interested in the diverse pathways towards language and therefore also conduct research on individual and cultural variability in learning and development.
Teaching responsibilities
I teach on our undergraduate BSc Psychology. I coordinate the Level 6 module Language and Communication. In the past I have also taught Qualitative Research Methods in the Level 5 module Psychological Research Methods. I am a tutor for Level 4 & 5 students and I also supervise PhD students, Masters students and undergraduate project students.
Research outputs
2024
Young sanctuary-living chimpanzees produce more communicative expressions with artificial objects than with natural objects
Gibson, V., Taylor, D. J., Salphati, S., Somogyi, E., Nomikou, I., Davila Ross, M.
23 Oct 2024, In: Royal Society Open Science. 11, 10, 18p., 240632
Research output: Article
2023
Joining actions through effort sounds: mothers and infants in routine activities
Nomikou, I.
1 Jul 2023, In: Language and Communication . 91
Research output: Article
Preverbal infants produce more protophones with artificial objects compared to natural objects
Gibson, V., Somogyi, E., Nomikou, I., Taylor, D., Lopez, B., Mulenga, I. C., Davila Ross, M.
20 Jun 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 10p., 9969
Research output: Article
2022
The intersubjective roots of pretend play
Fantasia, V., Nomikou, I.
28 Sep 2022, In: Rivista di Psicolinguistica Applicata Journal of Applied Psycholinguistics. 22, 2, p. 45-60, 16p.
Research output: Article
Time-to-smile, time-to-speak, time-to-resolve: timescales for shaping engagement in language
Rączaszek-Leonardi, J., Główka, K., Nomikou, I., Rossmanith, N.
1 Sep 2022, In: Language Sciences. 93, 16p., 101495
Research output: Article
Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax – mother-infant interaction around infant smiling in two cultures
Kärtner, J., Schwick, M., Wefers, H., Nomikou, I.
1 May 2022, In: Infant Behavior and Development. 67, 22p., 101715
Research output: Article
Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: the ManyBabies model
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Hamlin, J. K., Kaldy, Z., Kulke, L., Laverty, C., Lew-williams, C., Mateu, V.,
10 Feb 2022, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 45, e35
Research output: Article
2021
Action bids in children with speech impairments: the case of marking
Fasulo, A., Nomikou, I., Nye, J.
31 Aug 2021, In: Research on Children and Social Interaction. 5, 1, p. 57-79, 23p.
Research output: Article
Only 2% of conversations end when we want them to – here’s why that’s cause for celebration
Fasulo, A., Nomikou, I.
2 Mar 2021, In: The Conversation
Research output: Article
Reproducing experiments on early verb understanding in infants
Ayer, V., Witte, C., Cimiano, P., Rohlfing, K., Nomikou, I.
1 Jan 2021,
Research output: Chapter (peer-reviewed)