Jolina Saliquni is a student research assistant for Prof. Dr. Simone Pfenninger at the University of Zurich. She completed her BA with a thesis on linguistic indicators of cognitive decline, titled “The Language of Forgetting: A Micro- and Macrostructural Analysis of Linguistic Patterns in Swiss Adults at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment.”
Her key research interests encompass language acquisition and neurolinguistics, focusing on the relationship between language and cognition across the lifespan. She is also strongly interested in sociolinguistics, particularly in how language intersects with identity and social perception. In addition, the ways in which the language practices of marginalized communities are represented and perceived across different social contexts, and how these perceptions are shaped by broader social attitudes, also form a central part of her research interests.