Lecturer
- About
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- School/Department
- School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture
Biography
I joined LLMVC in April 2022 as a Lecturer in Linguistics after two short stints in Greifswald and Newcastle.
I’m mostly interested in researching how adults and infants use interactional units of language (particles, prosody, and gesture) in conversation. Much of this work is couched in a syntactocentric framework.
You will find more information on my research and teaching on my personal website.
Qualifications
- PhD Linguistics (Cognitive Stream)2019 - University or British Columbia
Internal Memberships
Impact Lead for the School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture (with Dr Fransiska Louwagie)
REF Co-lead (Linguistics) for UoA27 (with Prof Andrew Gorden and Prof David Wheatley)
Co-director for the Centre of Training and Research in Linguistics (with Prof Robert McColl Millar)
- Research
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Research Overview
My research explores the syntax, pragmatics, prosody and gestures of interactional language in adults and infants. At the prosody-pragmatics interface, my research looks at how intonation encodes speaker attitudes and expectations. A particular focus here has been to explore how intonation contributes to the mapping of clause types and speech acts. At the syntax-pragmatics interface, I have worked on the syntactic integration of discourse particles in a range of unrelated languages. This work shows that discourse particles are subject to similar syntactic mechanisms as constituents inside the clause. At the syntax-prosody interface, I show that a syntactic integration of prosody explains the distributional facts of various contours and particles. Lately, I have started investigating how co-speech gesture signals (non-)canonical meaning and how infants draw on multimodal cues to scaffold language acquisition.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Linguistics.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Early Childhood Studies
- English Language
- Linguistics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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Early management of common ground: Lessons from L1 acquisition of interactional language.
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsA flexible model for exposing and mitigating the hidden curriculum in the transition to Higher Education
Open Scholarship and TeachingContributions to Journals: ArticlesCo-speech gestures in negative questions.: Evidence from American soap opera actors
Contributions to Conferences: PapersWhat's a question to start with? Auxiliaries in input to English early talkers.
Many Paths to Language 2023Contributions to Conferences: PostersJavanese discourse particles: interlocutor perspective is in the syntax, kok!
Contributions to Conferences: PapersUnfolding trees: Evidence from the syntax of early interactional language
Contributions to Conferences: PapersTailored feedback in language learning: synergies in linguistics and computer science
Aberdeen Interdisciplinary Open SessionsContributions to Conferences: PostersAcquisitional trajectories of North American vs British English tags
Contributions to Conferences: Oral PresentationsAlignment of beat gestures and prosodic prominence in German
Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-2116
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Input beyond the Threshold: Explaining Auxiliary Initial Assertions in a British English Early Talker
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsNon-Arbitrariness across modalities: Bootstrapping the emergence and development of questions
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsTiming of belief as a key to cross-linguistic variation in common ground management
Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 261-275Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2020-0116
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Grounding Beliefs: Structured Variation in Canadian Discourse Particles
Exoticism in English tag questions: Strengthening arguments and caressing the social wheel. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 37-82, 45 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)Deconstructing Questions: Reanalyzing a heterogeneous class of speech acts via commitment and engagement.
Scandinavian Studies in Language, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 56-82Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/sss.v11i1.121361
Interaction at the prosody-syntax interface
Prosody in Syntactic Encoding. Kentner, G., Kremers, J. (eds.). de Gruyter, pp. 189-217, 29 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110650532-007
Turn-peripheral management of Common Ground: A study of Swabian gell
Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 141, pp. 109-129Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2018.12.007
Intonation and Particles as Speech Act Modifiers: A Syntactic Analysis
Studies in Chinese Linguistics, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 109-129Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/scl-2016-0005
The syntax of confirmationals
Outside the Clause: Form and function of extra-clausal constituents. Kaltenböck, G., Keizer, E., Lohrmann, A. (eds.). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 305-340, 36 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.178
Effects of mouthing and interlocutor presence on movements of visible vs. non-visible articulators
Canadian Acoustics, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 17-24Contributions to Journals: Articles