Dr. Elaine Schmidt

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Elaine Schmidt's research interests encompass language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, with a particular focus on prosody. She completed her PhD on Bilingual Acquisition of Prosody at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Dr. Brechtje Post. Following her doctorate, she served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Child Language Lab, Macquarie University, under the guidance of Distinguished Professor Katherine Demuth. Her current research investigates the processing of prosody in both children and adults employing EEG, eye-tracking, and behavioural online measurements. Currently, Schmidt holds a Research Associate position with Professor Ianthi Tsimpli, working within the Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language Lab (CamLAB). Some recent projects she led include studies on subvocal prosody and syntactic disambiguation, as well as categorical gradient processing in intonation, collaborating with various distinguished professors and researchers across institutions.

Research Interests

Experience

Research Associate

— Present

ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders • Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Honorary Associate

— Present

Macquarie University • Sydney, Australia

Requirements for University of Cambridge

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.7
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Reading
Required:25
Writing
Required:25
Speaking
Required:25
Total
Required:110
Prerequisites
UK Bachelor's Degree with good Upper Second Class Honours or international equivalent Background in international relations, politics, law, economics, security or history is a definite asset
Application Checklist
  • Two academic references
  • Official transcripts
  • CV/Resume
  • Personal statement (approx 500 words)
  • Research proposal (1-2 pages/500 words)
  • Application fee (£50)
Specialization Notes

Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.