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.
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Who said what? The role of speaker identity on children’s predictive grammar learning
01/03/2024 → 28/02/2026
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The generality of expectation violation as a mechanism for language learning
26/10/2023 → 22/01/2027
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Cross-linguistic influence and shared syntax in bilingual language development
01/09/2020 → 31/10/2023
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How does language experience support language development? Short-term priming and long-term learning
01/09/2018 → 28/02/2023
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Syntactic priming as implicit learning: comparing first and second language speakers
02/10/2017 → 02/02/2022
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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