I’m a psycholinguist with a strong interest in human language processing, including processing in language learners. My work focuses mainly on discourse processing, encompassing research on anaphora and other discourse phenomena using a range of experimental methodologies. I’m currently Assistant Professor (teaching focussed) in the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick. From 2017 to 2024 I was a postdoctoral researcher at the CRC 1252 Prominence in Language at the University of Cologne, Germany, working on the project “Forward and backward functions of discourse anaphora” (PI Prof. Dr. Petra Schumacher). I previously worked at the Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, and also did a stint as a substitute professor in the German department at TU Dortmund.
Interests:
- Sentence processing
- Discourse processing
- Discourse coherence
- Bilingualism
- L2 processing
- Pronouns
- Anaphora
- Referential devices
- Syntax
- Information structure
- Eye-tracking during reading
Contact: clare.s.patterson@warwick.ac.uk
patterlinguist 