Lucy Dipper

Senior lecturer - clinical linguistics

Biography

• 1999-present Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics, LCS, City University.
• 1998-99 Part time (0.5) Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics, LCS, City University.
• 1998-99 Part Time (0.5) Lecturer in Clinical Linguistics, HCS, University College London.
• 1999 PhD in Speech Sciences (Clinical Linguistics), University College London. Thesis entitled: Event Processing for Language - Investigating 'thinking-for-speaking' in non-fluent aphasia.
• 1995-98 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in Clinical Linguistics, Dept of Human Communication Science, University College London.
• 1994  MSc in Human Communication (with Distinction), University College London.
• 1991 BA (Hons) Linguistics (2:1) University of Sussex.

Research interests

• Language and cognition
• Verb and sentence processing in aphasia
• Gesture in aphasia
• Linguistic analysis of aphasic talk
• Right-hemisphere language processing
• The role of clinical linguistics in SaLT
   

Recent publications

• Patricacou, A., Psallida, E., Pring, T. and Dipper, L. (2007). The Boston Naming Test in Greek: Normative data and the effects of age and education on naming. Aphasiology.  21(12), 1157 - 1170.
• Cairns, D, Marshall, J., and Dipper, L. (2007). Event processing through naming:  Investigating event focus in two people with  aphasia. Language and Cognitive Processes,  22 (2), 201-233.
• Dipper, L., Black, M. and Bryan, K., L. (2005). Thinking For speaking And thinking For listening:  The interaction of thought and language in typical and non-fluent comprehension and production. Language and Cognitive Processes, 20 (3), 417-441
• Chiat, S., Dipper, L. & McKiernan, A. (2001). Re-dressing the balance: A commentary on Duchan's "Clinical Practices Re-examined". Advances in Speech Language Pathology -  Clinical Forum, 3(1), 63 - 66.
• Dipper, L., Bryan, K., L., and Tyson, J., (1997). Bridging inference and Relevance Theory: An account of right hemisphere inference. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 11( 3), 213-228.

Recent Presentations

• Dipper, L. 2008 ESRC International Seminar series on Language, Gesture & Space (chair, final session).
• Dipper, L., Cairns, D. and Marshall, J. (2007). The complexities of "thinking for speaking" in aphasia: Event processing through naming.  Proceedings of the British Aphasiology Society, Biennial International Conference.
• Dipper, L. & Cairns, D. (2001). Deeper conversations in aphasia. British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference (poster presentation). 
• Dipper, L., Black, M. and Bryan, K. L. (1999). Event processing for language. British Aphasiology Society Biennial International Conference (poster presentation). 

Funded research projects

In 2008 Lucy and Madeline Cruice were granted £5000 of City University Pump Priming funds for an exploratory linguistic analysis of the language used by 30 aphasic stroke individuals when discussing their quality of life. This is an exciting new collaboration providing a unique opportunity to blend clinical linguistics with quality of life research.

In 2007 Lucy was granted £4,939.69 of City University Pump Priming funds for a pilot study looking at Gesture in Aphasia, in collaboration with Naomi Cocks and Gary Morgan at City as well as Kita Sotaro from the University of Birmingham. The research team is currently preparing 2 papers arising out of the project:

• Cocks, N., Dipper, L., Morgan, G. and Sotaro K. (in prep.). The difference in form of two types of iconic gesture: Evidence from a single case study of conduction aphasia.
• Dipper, L., Cocks, N., Morgan, G. and Sotaro K. (in prep.). A single case study of a participant with conduction aphasia: What aphasic language impairment tells us about the relationship between speech and gesture production.