Dr Catherine Davies

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I am a Teaching Fellow in Linguistics at Leeds University.

Previously, I worked as a research assistant in the School of Psychology at the University of Kent, and before that I was a PhD student at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics (RCEAL), University of Cambridge (now part of DTAL), supervised by Napoleon Katsos.

I am an experimental linguist interested in psycholinguistics, first language acquisition and pragmatics. My research investigates how child and adult language users integrate information from communicative contexts in order to give appropriate amounts of information in conversation, and how deviation from such expectations conveys subtle pragmatic meaning. In addition to language processing and acquisition by neurotypicals, I am also interested in the interplay of language impairment and abnormalities in social cognition.

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