Around the world in 50 years: Pragmatics and language structure in typical and atypical language development
Wednesday 12 February 2025, 1:00pm to 2:00pm
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In the Linguistics Department’s 50th anniversary year, we are very pleased to welcome one of our first alumni! Dr Susan Foster-Cohen will talk about her life in child language acquisition research, what you can do with a degree in Linguistics, and what a career in research and academia might look like.
Around the world in 50 years: Pragmatics and language structure in typical and atypical language development
Dr. Susan Foster-Cohen
Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy, University of Manchester, UK
Adjunct Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Canterbury, NZ
Research Associate, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain & Behaviour
Dr. Susan Foster-Cohen was one of the first graduates in Linguistics from Lancaster University in 1975. Following her B.A. (Hons) she went on to gain a Lancaster PhD in Linguistics and Psychology before heading overseas to teach, research, and administer academic programmes in the USA, France and New Zealand. In this talk she will outline a series of research studies on the relationships between language use and language structure in child language development, both typical and atypical, that reflect a trajectory from her earliest experiences at Lancaster. These studies have used both qualitative and quantitative methods; represent both theoretical and applied perspectives; and have involved children with their parents and, most recently, children with their peers. She will also suggest that finding a career path with a degree in linguistics calls for flexibility, creativity and an ability to use the transferable analytical and interpersonal skills that a degree in linguistics provides.
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