Dr Kate Messenger
Senior LecturerResearch Overview
I am interested in people's ability to understand and produce language and how these abilities are acquired.
I am particularly interested in children and adults' learning and processing of sentence structure.
My research studies this in young monolingual and bilingual children as well as adult learners of a second language.
The generality of expectation violation as a mechanism for language learning
26/10/2023 → 31/08/2026
Research
Lab Tour and Knowledge Exchange for Lancashire County Council Network Of Outstanding Providers
Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public
First Language (Journal)
Editorial activity
Psychology Matters Event
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar
Language Development Research (Journal)
Editorial activity
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Psychology
- Developmental Psychology