Professor Dr. Elaine Schmidt

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.

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