Dr Cecile Larralde
Research Associate
Specialist topics: Discourse Connectives, Language Processing, Executive Control, Figurative Language
Cecile is a psycholinguist interested in language processing and in the typical and atypical acquisition of language. She studied language sciences at University College London (BA and MSc) and completed her PhD at the CNRS – Universite Paris Cite in France.
Cecile is particularly interested in how extra-linguistic factors such as context, addressee’s knowledge about the speaker, common ground, or cognitive functions can affect our understanding of a word or sentence. Before joining Moor House, Cecile worked on adults’ processing and children’s acquisition of discourse connectives (but, and, so etc.). She’s also worked on pre-schoolers’ understanding of “or” in negative sentences (She didn’t eat or drink anything) and on metaphors and idiomatic expressions.
At Moor House Cecile combines her formal background to the clinical expertise of highly specialist and research speech and language therapists to better understand the linguistic specificities of children with DLD and to develop and test new therapeutic approaches.
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C. Larralde, M.Moyer, N. Pouscoulous, I. Noveck, et al., “Isolating the extra-logical features of but and so by comparing their processing to and’s: An investigation with thematically neutral content,” Glossa Psycholinguistics, vol. 4, no. 1, 2025.
C. Larralde and I. Noveck, “Deciphering the electrophysiological signature of discourse connectives,”
Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 241, pp. 144–163, 2025, issn: 0378-2166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.009.
C. Larralde, M. Moyer, and I. Noveck, “Discourse markers and psycholinguistic processing,” in Manual of Discourse Markers in Romance, ser. Manuels de linguistique romane, M.-B. Mosegaard Hansen and J. Visconti, Eds., Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024.
C. Larralde, A. Konradt, and K. E. Szendrői, “Information structure and scope interactions: Disjunction wide scope induced by focus,” Frontiers in Communication, vol. 5, 2021.
