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New paper alert!

Very excited to see this paper published in Cognition. This paper is a follow up to my 2018 article examining the lexical selection processes involved in dialect word selection. Here, I replicate the between-dialect interference effect previously observed for Scottish…

ESCOP 2019

Recently, we presented some of our results investigating the origin of codability effects and dialectal representations at ESCOP in Tenerife. These results challenge recent theoretical claims from Nozari & Hepner (2018). They also shine additional light on how dialectal alternatives…

Speaking about dialects at the ISSR Forum

In the @ISSRDundee Open Panel session, @AlissaMelinger told #ISSR2019 about Speaking in Context: Dialects of English #DialectsinDundee — UoD Psychology (@UoDPsychology) June 24, 2019 Thanks to @ISSRDundee for an interesting & exciting day of talks at #ISSR2019 – we're happy…

New paper updating the Swinging Lexical Network proposal

Out today, my paper with Rasha Abdel Rahman in Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. This paper reviews the evidence supporting the assumptions and predictions of our Swinging Lexical Network proposal. Our proposal for how we select words aims to explain semantic…

New comment published in Cognitive Neuropsychology

New from my ongoing collaboration with Rasha Abdel Rahman, this comment digs into the relationship between semantic and lexical processing and asks questions about the mechanism underpinning lexical selection. Download your copy here.    

Winter is coming!

Out for a wee end-of-semester drink with my fabulous research assistants. They’ve done amazing work all term. Good luck on your exams and see you next year!

Thank you, Aberdeen!

Had a brilliant time taking part in a panel discussion about the distinction between dialects and langauges, hosted at the University of Aberdeen by the Aberdeen University Linguistic Society.  Fantastic to see so many people interested in the status of…

Nuffield Students hard at work

This summer, I have two special guests in my lab! Two fantastic S6 students are working on my lab throught the Nuffield Research Placement Scheme to develop an on-line picture norming study. Their work will contribute to my research on…