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Dr. Lynda Kennedy is a lecturer and researcher in Speech and Language Therapy in the School of Health Sciences and a member of the Modern Languages and Linguistics research unit at Ulster. She obtained her PhD from Ulster University in 2017 titled 'Broca's aphasia: Syntax and beyond'. Lynda's research interests include experimental and clinical linguistics more generally. In particular, her research to date has focussed on sentence comprehension in aphasia and typical child language development and multilingualism.
She is a core member of the Ulster Centre on Multilingualism (UCoM) and a co-investigator on the affiliated project 'Language Made Fun' developed to support the English Language Development of migrant and refugee children in association Barnardos' NI Children's Charity and funded by the Big Lottery Fund.
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Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Broca's aphasia: Syntax and beyond
Award Date: 18 Dec 2017
Master, Language and Linguistics 'get-passives and Broca's aphasia'
Award Date: 17 Dec 2012
Bachelor, Bsc Hons Speech and Language Therapy
Award Date: 30 Jun 2010
External positions
Secretary of the Acquired Communication CEN NI
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Assessment of minority language skills in English-Irish-speaking bilingual children: A survey of SLT perspectives and current practices
Mulgrew, L., Duffy, O. & Kennedy, L., 1 Jan 2022, In: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 57, 1, p. 63-77 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Beyond the scope of acquisition: A novel perspective on the isomorphism effect from Broca's aphasia
Kennedy, L., Romoli, J., Tieu, L., Moscati, V. & Raffaella, F., 3 Apr 2019, In: Language Acquisition. 26, 2, p. 144-152 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Language Made Fun: Supporting EAL students in primary education
Kane , F., Kennedy, L., Sevdali, C., Raffaella, F. & Rhys, C., 6 Mar 2019, Teanga: Special Edition: Multilingualism in the Early Years. Special Issue ed. Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, Vol. 10. p. 113-125 (Special edition 10 Multilingualism in the Early Years; vol. 10).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language
Cremers, A., Kane, F., Tieu, L., Kennedy, L., Sudo, Y., Raffaella, F. & Romoli, J., 31 Dec 2018, In: Glossa . 3, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Scalar implicatures vs. Presuppositions: the view from Broca’s aphasia
Kennedy, L., Bill, C., Schwarz, F., Folli, R. & Romoli, J., 5 Oct 2015, NELS 45: Proceedings of the forty-fith annual meeting of the North-East Linguistics Society. Bui, T. & Özyıldız, D. (eds.). Springer, Vol. 2. p. 97-110 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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