Dr Kate Messenger

Senior Lecturer

Research 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.

ICDL's First Birthday Party
Festival/Exhibition/Concert

Lab Tour and Knowledge Exchange for Early Years Education Practitioners
Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public

International Study Centre Student Lab Visit
Other

ICDL Family Fun Day
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Linguistic and cognitive dimensions of topic- and subject-prominence in Chinese and English
Oral presentation

Language Development Research (Journal)
Editorial activity

Lab Tour and Knowledge Exchange for Lancashire County Council Network Of Outstanding Providers
Influence on Policy, Practice, Patients & the Public

Campus in the City 2024 - Psychology stand
Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

First Language (Journal)
Editorial activity

Psychology Matters Event
Public Lecture/ Debate/Seminar

Language Development Research (Journal)
Editorial activity

Science and Technology Dean's Award - EDI Staff of the Year
Prize (including medals and awards)

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology