I’m a Lecturer in the Centre for Language and Communication Research at Cardiff University, Wales. I did my postdoc in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, North Carolina, working with Elika Bergelson at the Bergelson Lab. Before I moved to Duke I taught Psycholinguistics at the University of York, UK, where I completed my PhD in Linguistics. You can find out more about that here.

My research focuses on early language development, and I’m particularly interested in the transition from babble to speech. I’m also interested in the role of iconicity in early language development, specifically why babies acquire so many onomatopoeia in their early words. My work brings together perspectives from production and perception, with a particular focus on phonological development. My research to-date has used eye-tracking and fine-grained acoustic analysis to observe infants’ perception of language, alongside the consideration of early vocalizations and the manipulation of prosody in infant communication.