I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Facial Affective and Communicative Expressions (FACE) Lab at Emerson College, Boston.
I received my PhD in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from New York University. I studied linguistic accommodation in interactions with autistic individuals, examining how interlocutors linguistically accommodate them; and how such accommodations impact autistic listenersā comprehension and perception of the speaker.
Other areas of interest include:
- how parent-child interactions support language learning
- pragmatic development of blind and newly-sighted children
- how optional linguistic markers are used and acquired
Current mentor-collaborators: Dr. Ruth Grossman (Emerson College), Dr. Sudha Arunachalam (NYU), Dr. Vikram Jaswal (University of Virginia) and Dr. Paula Rubio-FernƔndez (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics).
Email: vshukla AT nyu DOT edu
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