Lara Kelly

Year of study: 2
- Linguistics and English Language
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: s1665953@sms.ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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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