My research explores how people talk, gesture, and think about the world around them. I am particularly interested in events and how people divide up their experiences into individual events. 

I am currently an ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Melbourne with my project Learning to Think and Talk about Events in the APY. This project studies whether linguistic differences between Pitjantjatjara and English relate to differences in how events are conceptualised, and how these relationships develop across childhood. 

I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, 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.