I am happy to supervise phd students on topics within semantics,
pragmatics, dialogue modelling and dialogue systems, language
acquisition, relationship between music and language. More
specifically, I have active research interests in:
0. Brain-oriented semantics
1. Syntax and semantics of wh-phrases (extending this paper and this paper )
2. An incremental grammar for dialogue
3. Relevance in inner dialogue (A starting point: this paper )
4. Integrating semantic and neural representations. (A starting point: this paper )
5. Multimodal repair: data from experiments with robots
6. Grammar and gesture for early utterances by children
7. Humour among dementia sufferers
8. Relevance in conversations with dementia sufferers
9. Questions and answers in music
10. Semantic analysis of poetry or drama