Caroline Andrews

I am a psycholinguist dedicated to expanding experimental research beyond the handful of languages and structures that have traditionally been studied. I currently hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics at the University of Oxford working on switch reference constructions in Shipibo-Konibo, an indigenous language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. Before that, I worked on processing of ergative case in Shipibo. I also study online and offline syntactic memory in sentence processing via syntactic priming and interference paradigms in long-distance dependencies (agreement, reflexives, ellipsis, and Wh- Filler Gap constructions).

Recently, my research has been supported in part by a Fulbright Scholar Award (2023 & 2024) and an Early Career Research grant from the Leading House for the Latin America region through the University of St. Gallen.

I received my doctorate in Linguistics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and my BA in Linguistics from the University of California – Santa Cruz. After UMass, I spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Language Science the University of Zurich.

I’ve previously done non-psycholinguistic work on Zulu (iso:zul; Bantu), Tlingit (iso:tli, Na-Dene), and Uda (iso:uda, Lower Cross-River).