Chloe Marshall

Senior lecturer in developmental psychology / language acquisition

Biography

• 2004 - PhD, Human Communication Science, at the Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL. Thesis entitled 'The morpho-phonological interface in Specific Language Impairment'.
• 2001 - MA, with distinction, Linguistics, University College London.
• 1996 - Montessori Special Educational Needs Diploma, Montessori Centre International, London.
• 1994 - Montessori Nursery Foundation Teaching Diploma, with distinction, Montessori Centre International, London.
• 1993 - BSc Hons, First Class, Biology, University of East Anglia. 

Research interests

• Language and literacy development
• Developmental disorders of language and literacy (SLI, dyslexia)
• Phonology and its developmental relationship to morphology, syntax and the lexicon
• The development of lexical organisation in British Sign Language
• Working memory and its developmental relationship to typical and atypical language acquisition in hearing and deaf children
• The phonology and morphology of English, and of British Sign Language
   

I am currently funded by a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for a research project entitled Sign language and working memory in deaf children. This project fits within a larger research project investigating atypical sign language development in deaf children, which is being carried out here at City and at UCL's Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre. I have three further research projects: Semantic and phonological fluency in signing adults, with Joanna Atkinson and Katherine Rowley at DCAL, Non-word repetition in children with SLI and ASD, with David Williams and Heather Payne at Durham University, and A user study of the effect of dyslexia on information retrieval with Andy MacFarlane, George Buchanan and Asaad Albrair from the School of Informatics at City University.

In January 2010 I was awarded a City University Staff Prize for Excellence in Research, together with my colleague Wolfgang Mann, in recognition of our research into deaf children's acquisition of British Sign Language.

Teaching

I contribute to the following modules:

• Speech and language development (BSc2 & PG1)
• Language processing  (BSc3 & PG2)
• Developmental Language Impairments (MSc in Human Communication)
• Language learning and development (MSc in Joint Professional Practice)
• Supervision of BSc, MSc and PhD students
   

Publications

Please contact me if you would like a reprint of any of these papers.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Mann, W. & Marshall, C. R. (accepted). Investigating Deaf children's vocabulary knowledge in British Sign Language. Language Learning.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (accepted). Irregular past tense forms in English: How data from children with Specific Language Impairment contribute to models of morphology. Morphology.
• Marshall, C. R., Ramus, F. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (in press). Do children with dyslexia and/or SLI compensate for place assimilation? Insight into phonological grammar and representations. Cognitive Neurospychology. DOI:10.1080/02643294.2011.588693.
• Allen, J. & Marshall, C. R. (2011). Parent-child interaction therapy in school-aged children with SLI. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 46, 397-410.
• 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.
• van der Lely, H. K. J., Jones, M. & Marshall, C. R. (2011). *Who did Buzz see someone? Grammaticality judgements of wh-questions in typically
  developing children and children with Grammatical-SLI. Lingua, 121, 408-422.
• 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.
• Mann, W. & Marshall, C. R. (2010). Building an Assessment Use Argument for sign language: the BSL Nonsense Sign Repetition Test. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 13, 243-258.
• 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.
• van der Lely, H. K. J. & Marshall, C. R. (2010). Assessing component language deficits in the early detection of reading difficulty risk. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 43, 357-368.
• MacFarlane, A., Al-Wabil, A., Marshall, C. R., Albrair, A., Jones, S. A.  & Zaphiris, P. (2010). The effect of dyslexia on information retrieval: A pilot study. Journal of Documentation. 66, 307-326.
• Mann, W., Marshall, C. R., Mason, K. & Morgan, G. (2010). The acquisition of sign language: The impact of phonetic complexity on phonology. Language Learning and Development, 6, 60-86.
• Marshall, C. R., Harcourt-Brown, S., Ramus, F. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009). The link between prosody and language skills in children with SLI and/or dyslexia. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 44, 466-488.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2009). Effects of word position and stress on onset cluster production: Evidence from typical development, SLI and dyslexia. Language, 85, 39-57.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2008). Recognition of gated verbs by children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: Effects of inflection and frequency. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22, 433-451.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007). The impact of phonological complexity on past tense inflection in children with Grammatical-SLI. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 9, 191-203.
• Marshall, C. R., Marinis, T. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007). Passive verb morphology: The effect of phonotactics on passive comprehension in typically developing and Grammatical-SLI children. Lingua, 117, 1434-1447.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2007). Derivational morphology in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 42, 71-91.
• Marshall, C. R. (2006). The morpho-phonological interface in Specific Language Impairment. Language Acquisition, 13, 373-375. (Thesis synopsis).
• Marshall, C. R., Denmark, T. & Morgan, G. (2006). Investigating the underlying causes of SLI: A non-sign repetition test in British Sign Language. Advances in Speech-Language Pathology, 8, 347-355.
• Marshall, C. R. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2006). A challenge to current models of past tense inflection: The impact of phonotactics.  Cognition, 100, 302-320.
• Marshall, C. R. (2005). The impact of word-end phonology and morphology on stuttering. Stammering Research, 1, 375-391.
• Marshall, C. R. & Chiat, S. (2003). A foot domain account of prosodically conditioned substitutions. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 17, 645-657.

Edited books, journal issues and editorials

• Marshall, C. R. (in prep.) Ed. Current Issues in Developmental Disorders. In the series "Current Issues in Developmental Psychology". London, UK: Psychology Press.
• Marshall, C. R. & Messaoud-Galusi, S. (2010). Eds. Developmental disorders of language and literacy. Special issue of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28(1).
• Marshall, C. R. & Messaoud-Galusi, S. (2010). Editorial introduction. Developmental disorders of language and literacy: Special Issue. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 1-4. 
• Messaoud-Galusi, S. & Marshall, C. R. (2010). Eds. Exploring the overlap between dyslexia and SLI: The role of phonology. Special issue of Scientific Studies of Reading, 14(1).
• Messaoud-Galusi, S. & Marshall, C. R. (2010). Introduction to this special issue. Exploring the overlap between dyslexia and SLI: the role of phonology. Scientific Studies of Reading, 14, 1-7.

Working papers, book chapters, and papers in conference proceedings

• Marshall, C. R. (2011). Sign language phonology. In The Continuum Companion to Phonology, Botma, E., Kula, N & Nasukawa, K. (eds). Continuum. pp. 254-277.
• van der Lely, H. K. J. & Marshall, C. R. (2011). Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment: a window onto domain-specificity. In The handbook of psycholinguistic and cognitive processes: Perspectives in communication disorders. Guendouzi, J., Loncke, F. & Williams, M. (eds). LEA, Taylor & Francis. pp. 401-418.
• Marshall, C. R., Harris, J. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2003). The nature of phonological representations in children with Grammatical-Specific Language Impairment (G-SLI). In D. Hall, T. Markopoulos, A. Salamoura & S. Skoufaki (eds.) Proceedings of the University of Cambridge First Postgraduate Conference in Language Research, 1, 511-517.
• Marshall, C. R., Ebbels, S., Harris, J. & van der Lely, H. K. J. (2002). Investigating the impact of prosodic complexity on the speech of children with Specific Language Impairment. In R. Vermeulen & A. Neeleman, (eds.) UCL Working Papers in Linguistics, 14, 43-68.
   

Book reviews

• Marshall, C. R. (2009). Review of Mody, M. and Silliman, E. R. (eds.) (2008), "Brain, behavior, and learning in language and reading disorders". Infant and Child Development, 18, 579-581.
• Marshall, C. R. & Morgan, G. (2008). Review of Perniss, P., Pfau, R. & Steinbach, M. (eds.) (2007), "Visible variation: Cross-linguistic studies on sign language structure". Journal of Linguistics, 44, 535-539. 
• Marshall, C. R. (2003). Review of Windsor, F., Kelly, M. L. & Hewitt, N. (eds.) (2002), "Investigations in clinical phonetics and linguistics". Applied Psycholinguistics, 24, 163-165.
   

Other publications

• Gallon, N. & Marshall, C. R. (2009). Using non-word repetition tasks with children with dyslexia. Dyslexia Review, 21, 4-9.
• Rowley, K., Mason, K., Marshall, C. R., Atkinson, J. R., Herman, R., Woll, B. & Morgan, G. (2009). Discovering language impairment in British Sign Language. British Deaf News (December 2009 issue), 16-17.
• Marshall, C. R. & Morgan, G. (2009). Sign language and working memory in Deaf children: A new research project. British Deaf News (July 2009 issue), 16-17.
• Marshall, C. R. (2009). Literacy: A skill for life. Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Issue 685, p.11.
• Mann, W., Marshall, C. R., Mason, K. & Morgan G. (2009). Understanding more about sign language learning: Results from the nonsense-sign repetition project. British Deaf News (March 2009 issue), 16-17.
• Mann, W., Marshall, C. R. & Morgan, G. (2007). How do deaf children make signs? The nonsense-sign repetition project. Sign Matters (September 2007 issue), 16-17.
• Marshall, C. R. (2007). Continuing the baby sign debate. Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Issue 663, p. 13.
   

Selected recent invited presentations

• (09/11) 'SLI in Deaf children who use British Sign Language'. Keynote talk at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition conference, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• (06/11) 'Language impairments in children with dyslexia'. Keynote talk at the Dyslexia Guild's summmer conference, University of Oxford, UK.
• (1/11) 'SLI in Deaf children who use British Sign Language'. Developmental Neurocognition Lab, Birkbeck, University of London.
• (11/10) 'Where gesture and sign meet: Learning British Sign Language as L2'. Cognition, Communication and Learning Research Group, Lund University, Sweden.
• (10/10) 'Where gesture and sign meet: Learning British Sign Language as L2'. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• (06/10) 'Literacy impairments in children with SLI'. London Special Interest group in SLI.
• (05/10) 'The overlap between Specific Language Impairment and dyslexia'. Specialist Teacher Team South SENCAN SCF, Essex.
• (05/10) 'Comprehension and production of BSL classifier constructions by hearing adult learners and deaf signing children'. Institut du Monde Anglophone, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, Paris, France.

Other activities

• External examiner for Dyslexia Action's Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy, validated by the University of York. (2010-2013).
• Joint book reviews editor for the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. (2010-2012).
• Co-organiser (with Dr Judith Rispens & Dr Elise de Bree) of the workshop 'The role of morpho-phonology in language and literacy development and disorders', January 2011, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Funded by the British Council's Partnership Programme in Science).
• Member of the scientific and organising committees for the conference 'Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research XI', July 2013, UCL, UK.
• Ad hoc grant reviewer for the ESRC and the BBSRC.
• Ad hoc reviewer for psycholinguistic and clinical journals, including Language and Cognitive Processes, the International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, Dyslexia, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, Cognitive Neuropsychology, and the Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.
• Reviewer of abstracts for scientific conferences, including the Boston University Child Language Development Conference and Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition.