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Rachel Dudley received her Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from New York University and her Doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Her main area of research is language acquisition, with a particular focus on the development of semantic and pragmatic competence, particularly phenomena related to attitude verbs and presupposition triggers. She investigates how language-learning children can develop adult-like competence and what aspects of their environment provide support for language acquisition. Her work employs behavioral experiments with children and adults, as well as eye-gaze methods with infants, and includes corpus analyses of naturalistic speech. Rachel's research is informed by insights drawn from linguistic, psychological, and philosophical literatures.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).