Areas of Interest:
First Language Acquisition
Experimental Semantics & Pragmatics
Pragmatic development
Implicature
Bilingualism
Cambridge Language Sciences
My research focuses on how children learn to make inferences about what people mean when they communicate, and the role that social cognition plays in that- their pragmatic development. In my PhD I concentrated on the acquisition of implicatures in young children. I am also interested in how this research can be applied to inference teaching in the classroom. I am involved with the Cambridge Bilingualism Network and have focussed on the interaction between multilingualism and wellbeing.
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