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Mark Steedman is a Professor in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, where he conducts research in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Cognitive and Social Science, and Natural Language and Speech Processing. He is affiliated with the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC), the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR), and the Human Communications Research Center (HCRC). He also holds an adjunct professorship in Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) , computational linguistics , prosody and intonation , temporal semantics , gesture in communication , and computational music analysis . He has authored foundational books including Surface Structure and Interpretation , The Syntactic Process , and Taking Scope . The recent publications reflect a strong trend toward integrating formal grammatical frameworks like CCG with modern neural and distributional models, particularly in semantic parsing, entailment reasoning, and cognitive modeling. His work bridges symbolic and statistical approaches in NLP, often focusing on robust, wide-coverage parsing and semantic interpretation. Best Paper Award at AACL/IJCNLP 2023 for 'Smoothing Entailment Graphs with Language Models' Best Paper Award at ACL 2023 for 'Extrinsic Evaluation of Machine Translation Metrics' Influential Paper Award 2017 from IFAAMAS for 'Animated Conversation' Mark Steedman has supervised numerous PhD students and collaborated widely across institutions. He leads research in formal grammar applications to cognitive modeling, dialogue, and multimodal communication. His lab contributes to CCG software and semantic parsing tools, and he continues to be actively involved in advancing the integration of symbolic and neural AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Cognitive Science
• Natural Language Processing
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Henriëtte Hendriks is a Professor in Language Acquisition and Cognition at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (TAL) department. She leads the Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language lab (CAMPAL) and serves as Deputy Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC). Education: Sinology at Leiden University Early Career: Coordinator at Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (DFG/ESF projects) Her research explores how languages encode concepts (person, time, space, causality) and their impact on language acquisition. Key themes include: Cognitive Linguistics and Language-Cognition Interfaces First and Second Language Acquisition Mechanisms Multilingualism and Cognitive Flexibility Typological Variation in Semantic Structures Deictic Terms and Dynamic Space Representation Recent publications focus on motion event typology across English, German, French, and Uyghur, examining cross-linguistic influences in acquisition processes. Her work combines experimental methods with syntactic analysis to study semantic mapping and grammaticalization in multilingual contexts. Current projects include: Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) - Principal Investigator MEITS Project (Strand 5) - Co-Investigator Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator projects on cognitive pacing and parental linguistic contributions International DeicTeS project on deictic meaning processes Labs & Teams: Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language lab (CAMPAL) Collaborations with Zoe Kourtzi, Vicky Leong, and Clare Hughes

• Cognitive Linguistics
• First Language Acquisition
• Second Language Acquisition
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Professor Ian Roberts is a faculty member at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. He holds the academic rank of Professor and has been a Fellow in Linguistics at Downing College since his appointment. His research focuses on theoretical linguistics, particularly comparative and historical syntax, grounded in Noam Chomsky's Universal Grammar framework. Education : BA from Bangor University, PhD from University of Southern California (USC), LittD, Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Roberts' work investigates how grammatical systems across Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages vary along simple parametric lines while adhering to universal constraints. His recent projects include 'Rethinking Comparative Syntax' (ERC-funded), 'Giving Voice to Digital Democracies', and parametric comparison studies. His publications span monographs and collaborative works, emphasizing syntactic universals, parametric hierarchies, and mechanisms of language change. He has supervised graduate students such as Zepu Zhang, Fanghua Zheng, and Liu Yang. Roberts has received prestigious awards, including the European Research Council Advanced Grant and multiple Cambridge Humanities Research Grants. His academic contributions extend to leadership as Head of the Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Section and involvement in research clusters like CAMPAL (Cambridge Processing and Acquisition of Language lab).

• Comparative Syntax
• Historical Syntax
• Universal Grammar
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Professor Emma Moore is a leading sociolinguist at the School of English, University of Sheffield . Specializing in the social dimensions of language, her work integrates methodologies from anthropology and sociology to investigate how linguistic variation constructs identity and social affiliations. Research focus: Sociolinguistic style, dialect contact, youth language, identity negotiation, and community-based fieldwork Key projects: Adolescence and grammar (1999-), Isles of Scilly dialect (2008-), language and inequality (2014-), language perception software (2016-) Educational background : PhD in Sociolinguistics, University of Manchester Stanford University (USA) during PhD research Research trends across her 2021-2025 publications reveal interdisciplinary exploration of: Socio-syntactic variation Clinical linguistics (2025 MDS-UPDRS studies) Digital discourse post-pandemic Indexicality and cognitive representations Dialect contact in insular communities Educational policy implications Scientific recognition : British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2019-2020) Elected Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute (2014) AHRC/BA funded research projects (1999-2015) Research group leadership : Mentored 9 PhD students (2004-2024) and supervised 3 undergraduate SURE projects, including analyses of: Gender in rap performance Language style and workplace inequality Oral history digitization Professional contributions : Editorial Board: Language in Society (2015-), Gender and Language (2011-2017) External Examiner: Lancaster University MA in English Language (2013-2017) Collaborative software development for dialect perception testing

• Sociolinguistics
• Syntax
• Language Variation
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Patrick Sturt is a Reader in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. His research focuses on syntactic processing in language comprehension, computational models of incremental parsing, anaphor resolution, and eye movements in reading. With over 100 publications and more than 3,300 citations, he is a recognized expert in psycholinguistics and language processing. Dr. Sturt's research interests span multiple areas of language processing. He investigates how humans comprehend sentences in real-time, with particular focus on syntactic structures, agreement phenomena, and anaphoric reference. His work often employs eye-tracking methodologies to examine the moment-by-moment processing of linguistic information. He has made significant contributions to understanding how readers handle syntactic ambiguities, garden-path sentences, and the role of prediction in language comprehension. His recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on cross-linguistic studies, particularly examining language processing in Mandarin Chinese and Korean. Many of his studies investigate how syntactic and semantic information interact during comprehension, and how linguistic structures like honorifics, classifiers, and non-canonical word orders are processed. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with experimental psycholinguistics, providing empirical evidence for models of sentence processing. Dr. Sturt actively supervises PhD students including Carine Abraham, Wenjia Cai, Chiuchou Hao, Ruomeng Zhu, and Christy Gu. He teaches Psychology of Language 1 and 2 at the MSc level, as well as Data Analysis for Psychology in R for first-year undergraduates. His teaching reflects his research expertise, providing students with both theoretical knowledge and practical analytical skills. Based in Room G29 of the Psychology Building at 7 George Square, Edinburgh, Dr. Sturt maintains regular office hours on Tuesdays from 3-4pm, providing accessibility to students and colleagues. His email address is patrick.sturt@ed.ac.uk.

• Psycholinguistics
• Syntactic processing
• Language comprehension
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Anna Theakston is a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Manchester where she holds the position of Head of Division for the Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience. She is also Co-director of the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD), a major research initiative focused on language development in children. Dr. Theakston completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Nottingham and earned her PhD through research at the University of Manchester on early language development in children aged 2-3 years. She subsequently coordinated the Manchester-based Max Planck Child Study Centre before being appointed to her current professorship. Her research focuses on children's early language and communicative development during preschool and early school years, situated within a usage-based framework that emphasizes child-environment interactions and caregiver input. Her work spans multiple areas including early gestural communication, caregiver-child interactions, grammatical construction acquisition, grammatical error origins, inflectional morphology, and syntax-semantics-pragmatics interfaces in complex language development. She frequently conducts crosslinguistic comparisons and employs diverse methodologies from corpus analysis to behavioral experiments, often collaborating with computational modelers. Analysis of her recent publications reveals strong emphasis on children's comprehension and production of complex sentence structures, particularly adverbial and complement clauses, with investigations into how information structure, iconicity, and pragmatic factors influence language development. Her work increasingly examines applications in real-world contexts including schools, nurseries, and cultural institutions, with growing attention to supporting deaf children's communication development and multilingual education. Co-Director, ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD) Active researcher with 111 research outputs including articles, datasets, and book chapters Recipient of research funding from ESRC and Max Planck Institute Professor Theakston supervises numerous PhD students investigating various aspects of language development, with recent projects examining tag questions, cultural institutions' role in language learning for minority populations, science interventions for deaf children, and Modern Foreign Language teaching in multilingual classrooms. Her research has practical impact through tools like the Teacher Toolkit for Teaching Primary MFL in Multilingual Key Stage 2 Classrooms and initiatives supporting deaf children's social communication skills. She maintains active collaborations with researchers across multiple disciplines and institutions, as evidenced by her extensive co-authorship network. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education and reduced inequalities.

• Language Acquisition
• Communicative Development
• Child Development
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Dr. Danfeng Wu is a Research Fellow at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, conducting interdisciplinary research in syntax-semantics and syntax-prosody mappings. Her work focuses on ellipsis, focus in coordination, and the empirical interplay between syntactic structure and prosody, employing experimental phonetic methods. She investigates languages like English and Mandarin Chinese to explore the cognitive and computational aspects of linguistic structure. Her research themes include phonetics, prosody, semantics, and syntax, with a particular emphasis on how syntactic configurations interact with prosodic phrasing and stress patterns. She has contributed to studies on corrective constructions, clitic climbing in Wolof, and vowel lengthening in Zulu, demonstrating a broad methodological approach combining theoretical linguistics with experimental and computational methods. Dr. Wu is affiliated with the Phonetics Lab and Language & Brain Lab within the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. She has organized interdisciplinary events such as the Oxford workshop on AI language models and developed linguistics courses for computer scientists and cognitive scientists at MIT. Her work bridges formal linguistics with cognitive science and computational linguistics, emphasizing realistic models of language acquisition and evolution.

• syntax-semantics interface
• syntax-prosody mapping
• ellipsis
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Yasutada Sudo is a Professor of Linguistics at University College London (UCL), holding positions since 2024. Previously, he served as Associate Professor (2018–2024) and Lecturer in Semantics (2013–2018) at UCL. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from MIT. His research focuses on formal semantics, pragmatics, and their intersections with cognitive psychology and computational models. Key areas include scalar implicatures, plural predication, anaphora resolution, and linguistic typology. His work spans multiple languages, including Japanese, Greek, and Italian. His research interests emphasize experimental semantics, cross-linguistic variation in quantificational structures, and the interaction between syntax and semantics. Recent work explores non-maximality effects, perspective sensitivity, and the cognitive underpinnings of pragmatic inferences. He has contributed to debates on Magri effects, blindess hypotheses, and the role of context in interpretation. Publications from 2025–2021 reveal a focus on scalar implicatures, plural inferences, and formal semantic frameworks. His 2025 articles address alternative-based analyses and experimental validation of pragmatic theories. Earlier work (2020–2014) covers gender in Greek, ordinal semantics, and perspective-shifting verbs like 'come' and 'go'. No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but his extensive publication record reflects scholarly impact. He leads UCL’s semantics research group, hosting seminars like PLIN0056, and contributes to academic discourse through peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations.

• Linguistics
• Cognitive Psychology
• Computational Psychology
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Dr. Margreet Vogelzang is a Lecturer in Psychology at Newcastle University and an affiliated researcher at Theoretical and Applied Linguistics within the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Based at the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP, and affiliated with Trinity College at Cambridge, she maintains a dual institutional presence that reflects the interdisciplinary nature of her work. Her research program combines neuroscientific, psychological, linguistic, and statistical methodologies to investigate language and cognitive processing across the lifespan. She specializes in multilingual syntactic and semantic processing, employing both written and spoken language paradigms with offline (comprehension, judgments) and online (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) measures. Her work examines how hearing loss, socio-linguistic variables, and developmental conditions like autism spectrum disorder influence language processing mechanisms. Analysis of her recent publication record reveals three dominant research trajectories: (1) bilingualism effects on cognitive flexibility in autistic children, (2) neural and cognitive mechanisms of sentence processing in individuals with hearing loss, and (3) computational modeling of pronoun interpretation across diverse populations. These strands demonstrate her consistent focus on bridging theoretical linguistics with cognitive neuroscience to address practical questions about language processing variability. Dr. Vogelzang actively supervises several graduate students including Alexander Cairncross, Andromachi Tsoukala, and Chara Triantafyllidou, and serves as course contact for Li16: Psychology of language processing and learning at Cambridge. Her teaching portfolio includes psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, cognitive science, and research methods, reflecting her methodological expertise across experimental and computational approaches.

• Psycholinguistics
• Language Processing
• Cognitive Neuroscience
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Nigel Fabb is a Visiting Professor of Literary Linguistics at the University of Strathclyde, set to become Emeritus Professor in September 2024. He holds a BA from the University of Cambridge (1980) and a PhD in Linguistics from MIT (1984), supervised by Noam Chomsky. His research focuses on the intersection of linguistics and literary form, with notable works analyzing meter, rhyme, and cognitive responses to literature. Fabb has authored influential books like A Theory of Thrills, Sublime and Epiphany in Literature (2022) and What is Poetry (2015), and edited volumes including Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art (2022). He has held prestigious fellowships, including the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014–2017), and served as editor of the Journal of Linguistics (1997–2014). His current projects include co-authoring a book on songs and linguistics with Myfany Turpin. Fabb’s research interests span metrical theory, cognitive approaches to literary experiences, and linguistic universals in poetry. He has explored topics such as the psychological basis of thrills in literature, the role of working memory in poetic form, and cross-linguistic verse structures. His work bridges linguistics, literature, and cognitive science, with interdisciplinary contributions to palaeography, cultural studies, and economics. Fabb has been actively involved in academic leadership roles, including Head of Department (2002–2005), Acting Dean (2010), and Vice-Dean for Research (2010–2013). He remains an editor of the Literary Universals Project and has delivered keynote lectures globally. His Erdös-Bacon number of 8 reflects his unique interdisciplinary reach, combining academic collaboration with a connection to theater through Russell T Davies.

• Literary Linguistics
• Poetry Structure
• Metrical Theory
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Leone Buckle is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Manchester, affiliated with the Division of Psychology, Communication and Human Neuroscience. She holds a BSc in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Liverpool, followed by an MRes and PhD in Psychology from the University of Manchester, funded by the ESRC. Her research focuses on how environmental experiences, such as exposure to linguistic input and real-life events, shape children’s language development. Key interests include syntactic priming, integration of linguistic and social cues during conversation, and diversity representation in children’s literature. Her teaching includes courses like PSYC10421: Introduction to Cognition and PSYC31121: Language and Communicative Development in Educational Settings. Research methods employed include syntactic priming experiments, eye-tracking, corpus analysis, and online questionnaires. She is currently supervising PhD students in areas related to her research. Recent work explores how social contingencies in video/audio interactions influence grammatical learning and examines the relationship between short-term priming effects and long-term language acquisition. Collaborations include projects with the University of Edinburgh and Warwick, focusing on language experience and development. She emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches bridging developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistic theory.

• Language Acquisition
• Cognitive Development
• Psycholinguistics
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Holly Branigan is a Professor of Psychology of Language and Cognition at the University of Edinburgh, affiliated with the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Her research focuses on language production, dialogue, child language development, and bilingualism. She holds a Personal Chair and has led numerous grants including projects on conversational alignment in children with autism, language experience effects on development, and syntactic priming in dialogue. Her teaching includes undergraduate courses on Psychology of Language and postgraduate modules on Dialogue. She supervises PhD students in topics like syntactic processing, bilingualism, and interactional linguistics. Branigan has secured over £10M in research funding from bodies like the ESRC and EU, leading projects such as 'How does language experience support language development?' (2018–2023) and 'AThEME: Advancing European Multilingual Experience' (2014–2019). Her work explores how speakers adapt language based on social context, interlocutor traits, and cognitive factors. Key achievements include a 7-year ESRC fellowship (1999–2006), and recognition for contributions to understanding syntactic processing mechanisms. She currently leads research on child language imitation in social contexts and bilingual syntactic representation.

• Language Production
• Dialogue
• Language Development
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Dr. David O'Reilly is a Lecturer in Education (Research and Teaching) at the University of York's Department of Education since 2022. Previously, he held roles as Lecturer (2021–2022) and Associate Lecturer (2017–2021). His academic journey includes a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of York (2013–2017), an MA in Applied Linguistics (2012–2013), and a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Manchester (2003–2006). His research focuses on metaphoric competence in first and second languages, language play/creativity, test design, and quantitative methods. He leads projects like OASIS (Open Accessible Summaries in Language Studies) and contributed to the IRIS repository for second language research materials. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds editorial roles, including Review Editor at Metaphor and the Social World . Key Projects: OASIS (ESRC/British Academy funded), IRIS Repository Awards: RaAM Early Career Research Paper Prize (2021), Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Award (2021) Professional Roles: Secretary of RaAM (2020–2022), Member of RaAM Executive Committee (2014–2020) Dr. O'Reilly teaches undergraduate and postgraduate modules in educational research methods, language assessment, and applied linguistics. He actively promotes open research practices and digital literacy in academia.

• Metaphoric Competence in First and Second Languages
• Vocabulary Knowledge
• Language Play/Creativity
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Professor Ted Briscoe is a renowned academic in Computational Linguistics, previously affiliated with the University of Cambridge's Department of Computer Science and Technology (Computer Laboratory). He moved to MBZUAI in Abu Dhabi as a Professor of Natural Language Processing. His research focuses on computational linguistics, speech/language processing, and evolutionary linguistics, with contributions to tools like the RASP parsing system. He is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His work spans grammatical error correction, automated essay scoring, and language acquisition models. For more details, see his MBZUAI profile .

• Computational Linguistics
• Speech and Language Processing
• Textual Information Management
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Dr Marieke Meelen is an Associate Professor in Historical Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. She serves as a Fellow, Tutor, and Director of Studies at Trinity Hall. Research Interests: Historical Linguistics, Comparative Syntax, Information Structure, Grammaticalisation & Pragmaticalisation, NLP for low-resource languages, Celtic & Tibeto-Burman languages Projects: PI for ELDP-funded endangered language documentation in Nepal; collaborator on ERC-funded 'PaganTibet' and AHRC-funded 'Emergence of Egophoricity' Key Contributions: Development of ASR and HTR models for Tibeto-Burman languages; historical treebank of Welsh; computational approaches to Celtic and Tibeto-Burman syntax Publications & Grants focus on syntactic reconstruction, corpus creation, and NLP for endangered languages. She mentors PhD students working on Celtic or Tibeto-Burman languages and consults for computational linguistics projects.

• Historical Linguistics
• Comparative Syntax
• Information Structure
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