Lauren E. F. Fletcher
CDT in NLP PhD Sudent,
University of Edinburgh
l.e.f.fletcher [@] sms.ed.ac.uk
I am a fourth year student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP at the University of Edinburgh, researching the interaction between language evolution and neurodivergent language users (with a focus on autistic people). I am a member of Edinburgh’s Centre for Language Evolution. I am supervised by Jennifer Culbertson and Hugh Rabagliati. I am an autistic autism researcher .
(The cat in the picture is my beloved cat Itsy, who passed away in 2019 whilst I was doing my Master’s degree.)
Interests
- Language evolution
- Neurodiversity and its interaction with language (focus on autism)
- Linguistic variation & change
- The interaction of pragmatics, language use, and language evolution