Teaching & Supervising

In a typical academic year I teach semantics and pragmatics and linguistic theory at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. I am also the Director of Studies for Linguistics for Trinity College, Cambridge.

I’m happy to supervise post-graduate research in the areas that I specialise in. The teaching and learning guide I’ve designed together with Chris Cummins can be used as an indication.

Current PhD students:

• Joe Cowan on priming pragmatic inferences

• Blanche Gonzales de Linares on informativeness and guided play

• Dimitris Kastanas on perspective taking and implicature in neurodiverse populations

• Songqiao Xie on the acquisition and processing of metonymy

Past PhD students

• Laura Brown (co-supervised with Kate Plaisted-Grant) on the linguistic and executive functions profile of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Jessica Soltys on motivations for speaking indirectly

• Elspeth Wilson on word-learning and implicature

• Drasko Kascellan on bilingualism, executive functions and Autism-like traits

• Isabelle Lorge on bilingualism and word learning

• Curtis Sharma on bilingualism, executive functions and ADHD-like traits

• Katie Howard on the lived experience of bilingual autistic children

• Kyriakos Antoniou on pragmatics and executive functions in monolingual, bilingual and bi-dialectal populations

• Chris Cummins on the meaning and use of numerically-quantified expressions

• Cat Davies on over-informativeness in children and adults

• Eleni Kapogianni, co-supervised with Kasia Jaszczolt, on irony and the literal - non-literal distinction