The focus of my research is the study of certain aspects of the psychological status of the senses of polysemous words. I use sentence-sorting tasks to examine on the extent to which word senses are shared amongst native speakers of English, and whether or not word senses are stored in memory, or constructed on the fly. I use agreement statistics to measure inter- and intra-participant agreement, and am exploring whether network visualisation, an approach more commonly used in complex systems theory, are a suitable means of studying word sense relations and their mental representation.
When I’m not studying, I teach Cognitive Approaches to Language Acquisition, a level six module that studies the major milestones in and constructivist theories of first language acquisition. I also co-teach a level four research methods module, Doing Linguistics, with specific responsibility for teaching statistics.
I’m an active member of the Cognitive Science and Communication research group housed at Northumbria’s School of Psychology.
Find out more about my research on my website.
BA (Hons) English Language and Communication
Cognitive Linguistics
In addition to my PhD research, I work as a research assistant on two ongoing projects:
During my undergraduate degree, I worked as a research assistant on the Early Language and Intercultural Acquisition (ELIAS) project, funded by the European Commission.
Schelletter, C., R. Ramsey (2010), 'Lexical and grammatical comprehension in monolingual and bilingual children', in. K. Kersten., A. Rohde, C. Schelletter and A.K. Steinlen (eds), Bilingual Preschools, Volume 1: Learning and Development, Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp.101-117
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