Barbara Kelly

Barbara Kelly's primary research interests are in language acquisition and discourse. She has been investigating the role of information flow in conversation and patterns of syntactic priming in discourse. Her gesture work focuses on language-learning, specifically on young children's speech and gesture combinations. She is currently studying how children's development moves from using speech and gesture combinations as their primary means of communication, to using multi-word utterances with verbs, and subject and object arguments.

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