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Marju Kaps is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Her research focuses on psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and experimental syntax, with a particular emphasis on information structure and language processing in Estonian and other languages. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA and an MA (Hons) in Psychology and Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh.
Education:
- PhD in Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA (Hons) in Psychology and Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Research Interests: Dr. Kaps investigates how syntactic structures and information packaging (e.g., contrastive topics, ellipsis) interact with real-time language processing. Her work employs eye-tracking, pupillometry, and experimental methods to study phenomena in Estonian and other languages, addressing questions about agreement systems, word order flexibility, and the cognitive mechanisms underlying sentence comprehension.
Teaching: She teaches undergraduate courses on data analysis in R for psychology students and postgraduate modules on the psychology and neuroscience of language. As of 2024, she is not accepting new PhD supervision inquiries.
