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Barbora Skarabela is a developmental linguist and Knowledge Exchange & Impact Officer at the University of Edinburgh, where she leads engagement activities for the Lothian Birth Cohorts studies. Her research focuses on verbal abilities in early years and examines the influences of children's linguistic input environments and changes over the life course. Notably, she has studied how joint attention impacts morphosyntactic development through her work on language acquisition in Inuktitut-speaking children. Additionally, her research highlights characteristics of infant-directed speech, demonstrating how features of baby-talk can aid early lexical development. Skarabela has recently investigated the production-comprehension asymmetry in children's understanding of discourse connectives such as 'but'. She has contributed significantly to the field with numerous publications, shedding light on aspects like social cognition and vocabulary development in children.
University of Edinburgh • Edinburgh, Scotland
Leading engagement activities for the Lothian Birth Cohorts studies, focusing on sharing research related to brain and cognitive aging with non-academic audiences.
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