Elaine Schmidt
Senior Research Manager
Elaine’s background is in psycholinguistics and language acquisition. She obtained her PhD from ÍâÍøÌìÌà on bilingual language acquisition and has subsequently worked as a Postdoc in Sydney, Australia, and ÍâÍøÌìÌà on cognitive processes in speech perception and reading. Her research at ÍâÍøÌìÌà Assessment focusses on the cognitive processes in language learners using eye-tracking and EEG.
Zhang, C., Tsimpli, I., & Schmidt, E. (2025). Text and picture integration during bridging information processing: A comparison of English and Chinese L1 and L2 speakers. Memory & Cognition,
Schmidt, E., & Holzknecht, F. (2024). Investigating listening through technology. In The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Listening (pp. 357-367). Routledge.
Schmidt, E., & Pastorino-Campos, C. (2024). Eye tracking and EEG in language assessment. In G. Yu & J. Xu (eds.), Language Test Validation in a Digital Age (pp. 173-197). Cambridge.
Cilibrasi, L., Adani, F., Pérez, A. I., Schmidt, E., Wigdorowitz, M., & Tsimpli, I. M. (2022). The role of number mismatch and exposure in the comprehension of relative clauses in bilingual children. Applied psycholinguistics, 43(3), 663-682.
Ivan, Y. U. E. N., Rattanasone, N. X., Schmidt, E., Macdonald, G., Rebecca, H. O. L. T., & Demuth, K. (2021). Five-year-olds produce prosodic cues to distinguish compounds from lists in Australian English. Journal of Child Language, 48(1), 110-128.
Schmidt, E., Pérez, A., Cilibrasi, L., & Tsimpli, I. (2020). Prosody facilitates memory recall in L1 but not in L2 in highly proficient listeners. Studies in second language acquisition, 42(1), 223-238.