Linnaea Stockall

Professor Linnaea Stockall is a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen Mary University of London, affiliated with the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film and the Department of Linguistics. She directs the Morphemes and Meaning Lab, focusing on morphological and semantic processing mechanisms. Her research integrates experimental, neurolinguistic, and cross-linguistic approaches to understand word formation, lexical access, and syntactic-semantic integration.

Stockall holds a PhD from MIT and specializes in psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, and morphology. Her work explores how morphological constituents are stored, decomposed, and recombined during language processing, with particular attention to irregularity, event semantics, and the interaction of roots with functional morphemes. She has conducted studies using MEG neuroimaging and masked priming paradigms in languages like Tagalog, Mandarin, and Arabic.

Her research emphasizes understudied languages and developing resources for cross-linguistic research. She supervises PhD/postdoctoral researchers in areas connected to her expertise, requiring clear alignment with her focus on morpho-syntactic and semantic processing. She is also involved in public engagement initiatives, such as the Teach Real English! project.

Key contributions include investigations into mass/count distinctions, morphological decomposition in neuroimaging studies, and sociolinguistic effects of taboo language. She collaborates widely, with recent projects addressing lexical semantics, aspectual interpretations, and the impact of grammatical gender on societal perceptions.