Dr Chloë Marshall

    • BSc, MA, PhD
    • Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Human Development
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  • Summary:
    • My background is in biology, Montessori education, linguistics, and psychology. My research interests include:
      Language and literacy development.
      Developmental disorders of language and literacy. (with a focus on Specific Language Impairment and Dyslexia)
      Phonology and its developmental relationship to morphology, syntax and the lexicon.
      The cognitive skills underlying typical and atypical language acquisition in hearing and deaf children. (with a focus on working memory and executive functions)
      The phonology and morphology of English, and of British Sign Language.
      The organization of the lexicon in spoken and signed languages.
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  • Research:
    • Executive functions in deaf children (with Gary Morgan, Tanya Denmark and Nicola Botting)
      Brent Early Language Development Project (with Angela Hobsbaum)
      An evaluation of "Talk for Writing" (with Julie Dockrell and Dominic Wyse)
      Semantic and phonological fluency in British Sign Language (with Joanna Atkinson)
  • Professional Activities:
    • Associate Editor for First Language (2012-present)
      External examiner at the University of York, for Dyslexia Action's courses.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Keynote presentation, 'Word production in developmental language disorders'. At the scientific meeting 'Language in developmental and acquired disorders: Converging evidence for models of language representation in the brain'. Royal Society, London, UK. June 2013

      Conference presentation, 'Morphological impairments in sign SLI: Interactions between visual-spatial cognition and language'. European Group on Child Language Disorders, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. June 2013

      Keynote presentation, 'Reading and the brain: What do teachers need to know?' at the Teacher Leader Professional Development Meeting. IOE, London, UK. March 2013.
  • Languages Spoken:
    • French (near-native)
      British Sign Language (intermediate)
      Spanish (basic)
  • Languages Written:
    • French (advanced)
      Spanish (basic)
Dr Chloë Marshall

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  • Ramus, F., Marshall, C. R., Rosen, S., & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2013) 'Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment: Towards a multidimensional model', Brain 136, 630-645.
  • Williams, D., Payne, H. & Marshall, C. R. (2013) 'Non-word repetition impairment in autism and SLI: Evidence for distinct underlying cognitive causes', Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 43, 404-417.
  • Marshall, C. R., Rowley, K., Mason, K., Herman, R., & Morgan, G. (2013) 'Lexical organisation in deaf children who use British Sign Language: Evidence from a semantic fluency task', Journal of Child Language 40, 193-220.
  • Marshall, C. R. (2013) 'Current Issues in Developmental Disorders' Marshall, C. R. (Ed.), In series: Current Issues in Developmental Psychology. London, UK: Psychology Press.
  • Mann, W. & Marshall, C. R. (2012) 'Investigating Deaf children's vocabulary knowledge in British Sign Language', Language Learning 62, 1024-1051.
  • Marshall, C. R. (2012) 'Interpreting error patterns in non-word repetition tasks: A commentary on Tamburelli, Jones, Gobet & Pine (2012)', Language and Cognitive Processes 27, 947-952.
  • Marshall, C. R., Ramus, F. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2011) 'Do children with dyslexia and/or SLI compensate for place assimilation? Insight into phonological grammar and representations.', Cognitive Neuropsychology 27, 563-586.
  • Marshall, C. R., Mann, W. & Morgan, G. (2011) 'Short term memory in signed languages: Not just a disadvantage for serial recall', Frontiers in Psychology 2, 102 (DOI 10.3389/ fpsyg.2011.00102).
  • McGettigan, C., Warren, J. E., Eisner, F., Marshall, C. R., Shanmugalingam, P. & Scott, S. (2011) 'Neural correlates of sublexical processing in phonological working memory', Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23, 961-977.
  • Mason, K., Rowley, K., Marshall, C. R., Atkinson, J. R., Herman, R., Woll, B. & Morgan, G. (2010) 'Identifying SLI in Deaf children acquiring British Sign Language: Implications for theory and practice', British Journal of Developmental Psychology 28, 33-49.