Caroline Rowland (psychologist)

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Caroline Rowland (* 1971 ) is a British psychologist. Since 2019 she has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (Netherlands).

Life

Rowland studied psychology at the University of Manchester and received his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2000 . Her doctoral thesis was entitled The acquisition of wh-questions in early English multi-word speech . She taught as a developmental psychology professor at the University of Liverpool . Until 2019 she was co-director of LuCid (ESRC International Center for Language and Communicative Development), a multi-million dollar collaboration between the universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster . She led the Language 0-5 project between 2014 and 2019, the largest research project into language development in children in the UK .

Since 2019 she has been Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Professor at Radboud University .

Her research focuses on how children learn language. In doing so, she focuses on grammar and how the child's environment encourages and shapes language use. To do this, she uses experiments, data analysis and computer models.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Caroline Rowland appointed professor by special appointment of First Language Acquisition. Retrieved on May 29, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Lucid: Prof Caroline Rowland. Retrieved on May 29, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ Lucid: Caroline Rowland. Retrieved on May 29, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Caroline Rowland | Max Planck Institute. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rowland, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971