Elena Lieven#
| Membership Number: | 4756 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lucid.ac.uk/who-we-are/our-people/directors/elena-lieven |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester
- 1999 - 2012 Honorary Professor for Child Language Development, University of Leipzig
- 1998 - 2014 Director, Max Planck Child Study Centre, University of Manchester
- 1998 - 2012 Senior Scientist (C3), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 1997 - 2000 Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Reader in Psychology
- 1995 - 1997 Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Senior Lecturer
- 1979 - 1995 Department of Psychology, University of Manchester, Lecturer
- 1974 - 1979 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Corpus linguistics
- Experimental psycholinguistics
- Computational modeling
- Emergence and construction of grammar
- Relationship between input and processes of language development
- Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural variation in children’s communicative environments
Honours and Awards
- Elected Fellow of the British Academy 2018
- Elected Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society 2018
- PI and Co-Director ESRC £9.3million for the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development [across the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster] 2014-2019
- President of International Association for the Study of Child Language 2008-2011
- Chair of the Board of Trustees, International Association for the Study of Child Language 2011-2014
