Position(s):
PhD Student (ESRC funded)
Department/Section:
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
About:
Elspeth is carrying out her PhD research supervised by Dr Napoleon Katsos on how children learn to infer implicatures and how this is connected to their word learning strategies. She also enjoys public engagement, and is involved in the Cambridge Bilingualism Network.
Research interests:
- Experimental Semantics and Pragmatics
- Language Acquisition
- Bilingualism
Published works:
Katsos, N, & Wilson, E (2014) Convergence and divergence between word learning and pragmatic inferencing. In J. Degen, M. Franke, and N. Goodman (Eds.), Proceedings of the Formal & Experimental Pragmatics Workshop, pp.14–20, Tübingen.
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