Education
She studied Experimental Psychology at Cambridge and then did her Doctor of Philosophy on language development at Cambridge before moving to the University of Manchester.
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Elena Lieven
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She is Director of the Max Planck Child Study Centre in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester and holds a Professorship there and an Honorary Professorship at Leipzig University. From 1996 - 2005 she was Editor of the Journal of Child Language. Elena has been involved in the design and collection of naturalistic child language corpora initially funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and, more recently, has collected a number of "Dense databases" funded by the Max Planck.
Elena Lieven’s principal areas of research involve: usage-based approaches to language development.
The emergence and construction of grammar. The relationship between input characteristics and the process of language development.
And variation in children"s communicative environments. Elena Lieven is the sister of Anatol Lieven, Dominic Lieven and Natalie Lieven Queen's Counsel.
Membership
She is a member of the The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project, a DOBES project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation aiming at the linguistic and ethnographic description of two endangered Sino-Tibetan languages of Nepal.
