Rachel Dudley

Rachel Dudley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego). She previously held postdoctoral fellowships at the Cognitive Development Center at Central European University in Budapest and at the Institut Jean Nicod & Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Maryland, advised by Valentine Hacquard and Jeffrey Lidz, with additional collaboration with Alexander Williams and Meredith Rowe.

Her research focuses on understanding how children develop semantic and pragmatic representations during language acquisition. Key areas include propositional attitudes, presupposition triggers, disjunction, and thematic relations. She employs behavioral experiments with children and adults, infant eye-tracking, and corpus analyses of naturalistic speech. Her work integrates insights from linguistics, psychology, and philosophy to explore learning mechanisms and cognitive development.

No specific articles or scientific awards are listed in the provided text. Her research emphasizes interdisciplinary methods, combining experimental and corpus-based approaches to study language development and its cognitive foundations.