Marta Szreder

Researcher (Alumni)

Organisation:

University of Manchester

A bit about Marta Szreder

I received my MA from the University of Warsaw (English Philology, 2009) in syntactic acquisition, and my PhD from University of York (Linguistics, 2013) in phonological development. I have worked as an RA on projects investigating the acquisition of Polish syntax (Dept. of Psychology, University of Warsaw) and the interaction of production and perception in English children’s transition from babble to words (University of York Baby Lab).

My main research interest is in the emergence of phonological (word templates) and syntactic (word order) systematicity as a function of the interaction between linguistic input and the developing cognitive structure in the child. I am also interested in Complex Systems approaches to cognition, and the history and philosophy of psycholinguistic models of language acquisition - from Radical Behaviourism, to Chomskyan nativism, to connectionist models.

My Role in LuCiD

I worked as a Research Assistant on WP6, WP11 and WP13, investigating the acquisition of syntax by Polish children (Morphosyntax working group), looking at children’s use and comprehension of verbal morphology and word order. 

LuCiD publications (4) by Marta Szreder

Engelmann, F., Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Szreder, M., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., Theakston, A., and Lieven, E. (2019). How the input shapes the acquisition of verb morphology: Elicited production and computational modelling in two highly inflected languages. Cognitive Pscyhology, 110, 30-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2019.02.001

Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Szreder, M., Engelmann, F., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., Theakston, A. & Lieven, E. (2017). Predicting errors in children’s production of verb morphology: evidence from person/number marking in Finnish and Polish. (1) Paper presented at The 3rd LuCiD Language and Communicative Development Conference, Lancaster, UK.

Engelmann, F., Kolak, J., Granlund, S., Szreder, M., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., Theakston, A. & Lieven, E. (2017). The acquisition of verb inflection in a connectionist model. Paper presented at the 14th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Lyon, France.

Granlund, S., Kolak, J., Szreder, M., Engelmann, F., Ambridge, B., Pine, J., Theakston, A. & Lieven, E. (2017). Predicting errors in children’s production of verb morphology: evidence from person/number marking in Finnish and Polish. Paper presented at the 14th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Lyon, France.

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