My research explores how children learn to think about events and how they come to talk about them in different languages. I am particularly interested in how linguistic differences between Pitjantjatjara and English relate to differences in how events are conceptualised, and how this relationship develops across childhood.

I am an ARC DECRA Fellow and completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2016, where I examined serial verb constructions in Avatime, a Kwa language spoken in Ghana. Since then, I have worked at the University of Melbourne with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language on a longitudinal study of children acquiring Pitjantjatjara, and later with the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences on event segmentation.

I am currently inviting English-speaking families to take part in a study on how children understand and describe events. If you would like to learn more about what participation involves, please follow the link below.