RUBIO-FERNÁNDEZ Paola

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I work in experimental pragmatics, employing methods from psycholinguistics and cognitive science to test pragmatic theories of communication. I am interested in the interdependence between language and social cognition, including their co-development during human maturation and their co-evolution during language change—a research program I call cultural evolutionary pragmatics.
In recent years, I have investigated referential communication across modalities (including speech/sign, gaze and gesture), languages, and ages to address fundamental questions about the way human social cognition is shaped by communicative face-to-face interaction.