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Currently...
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow working in the Psychology Department at the University of Edinburgh, investigating implicit learning effects of syntactic priming in children.

My research interests include language acquisition, children's first language acquisition of syntax in particular, and psycholinguistics. I am interested in how psycholinguistic methods can be used to gather more sensitive measures of children's linguistic representations and language processing. I am also interested in how individual differences in children and adults affect language processing and performance.

Previously...
Between 2009 and 2011 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois' Psychology Department, in Prof. Cynthia Fisher's Language Acquisition Lab. My postdoctoral research there examined young children's comprehension and acquisition of syntactic structures through novel-verb preferential-looking experiments. One line of research examined the acquisition of the passive structure and extended the priming work I did to examine younger children's comprehension of passives. In another line of research we examined young children's verb-learning from listening experience.

More previously...
I completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2009. My PhD research was funded by the ESRC and used syntactic priming to examine children's representation and production of passive sentences. My supervisors were Prof. Holly Branigan, Prof. Antonella Sorace and Dr. Janet McLean.

For more...
Please follow the links above to find my CV, and a wee blurb about myself. Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions, comments or for posters/conference proceedings; details can be found on my University of Edinburgh page.

"And is there any end to wisdom that we may hope to win it? Rather, the more we learn, shall we not thereby be able only to better compass out our ignorance?"

H.R. Haggard - She