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Emily Atkinson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto. She specializes in psycholinguistics and language acquisition, particularly focusing on sentence processing mechanisms and their role in real-time language comprehension. Her research investigates how children process sentences in relation to language acquisition, adult sentence processing, and the learning mechanisms that underpin the transition from the child language system to adult language use. Atkinson has also contributed to various academic publications addressing topics in her field, such as filler-gap dependency processing and the limitations of generalizability in syntactic priming research. In addition to her academic pursuits, she enjoys running and has completed several half marathons. Her teaching interests include courses on language development, mind and brain connections, and advanced quantitative methods in linguistics.
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