Claire's research aims to explain how children learn to communicate and to use communicative structure to learn about words and concepts.
About
Claire is a postdoc in the Social Interaction Lab with Robert Hawkins. She researches how children learn to communicate and use their understanding of communication to learn more about the world. Much of her work focuses on implied meaning and the structure of conversation, and spans concept learning, discourse pragmatics, and computational modeling of language.
Education
- BA, Psychology and Cognitive Science, Williams College
- MA, Psychology, University of Chicago
- PhD, Psychology, University of Chicago
Research Description
Claire's research aims to explain how children learn to communicate and to use communicative structure to learn about words and concepts. She uses behavioral experiments with adults and children, large naturalistic datasets, and computational modeling to characterize the emergence of communicative competence.