Lara Kelly

Year of study: 2

  • Linguistics and English Language
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Dugald Stewart Building

City
3 Charles Street, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9AD

Qualifications

2023 - Present - AHRC-funded PhD in Linguistics and English Language - University of Edinburgh

  • Thesis: The role of language distance in bilingual language processing

2021 - 2022 - MA in Applied Linguistics and Language Acquisition in Multilingual Contexts - University of Barcelona (UB)

  • MA Thesis: Do you eat pasta for dessert and tender your clothes? A comparison of cross-language activation in Turkish and Spanish learners of English

2016 - 2020 - BA in Political Science and Public-Sector Management - University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

  • BA Thesis: Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Policies: Multilingualism and Minority Languages in the UK

Responsibilities & affiliations

AHRC PhD Scholarship managed by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), September 2024 – present

Undergraduate teaching

Tutor, September 2023 – present

2024-2025

  • Second Language Acquisition (Honours) (LASC10030)
  • First Language Acquisition (Honours) (LASC10029)

2023-2024

  • Linguistics and English Language 1B (LASC08023)
  • LEL2B: Phonetic Analysis and Empirical Methods (LASC08018)

Research summary

Bilingual language processing, language distance and the bilingual mental lexicon, L2 word recognition, interlingual homograph recognition, cross-linguistic influence

Knowledge exchange

Co-chair, Bilingualism and Developmental Linguistics Research Group (BDLRG), September 2024 – present

Organiser

  • Organising committee, Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, September 2024 – present
  • Organising committee, 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, September 2024
  • Organising committee, Language Lunch @ Edinburgh, September 2023 – June 2024

Participant

30th Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference, The University of Edinburgh, June 2024

Poster presentation: Do you eat pasta for dessert and tender your clothes? Cross-language activation in L1-Turkish and L1-Spanish learners of English