Psychology
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
How do children learn to know what is appropriate to say in conversation? In discourse, sentences are linked together by cohesive elements: reference, ellipsis, substitution, conjunction, and lexical cohesion (Halliday & Hasan, 1976). These cohesive elements can also be described in terms of the information that is maintained across sentences. Participants can choose what elements to hold over to create a new and relevant sentence in discourse, as well as what can be left out pertaining to shared knowledge. My research examines transcripts of mother-child speech to observe the developmental trajectories children take to learn and employ particular methods.
2003 Rehabilitation Trainee for Adults with TBI, ResCare
2002-2003 Teaching Assistant for Special Education, Indian Prairie Dist. #204
2008-2011 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
2007 Hyman Meltzer Memorial Award in Psychology

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