Elena Lieven
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Elena Lieven is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
in Leipzig
(Germany
). She is Director of the Max Planck Child Study Centre in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester
and holds a Professorship there and an Honorary Professorship at Leipzig University. She studied Experimental Psychology at Cambridge
and then did her PhD on language development at Cambridge before moving to the University of Manchester. From 1996 - 2005 she was Editor of the Journal of Child Language.
Elena has been centrally involved in the design and collection of naturalistic child language corpora initially funded by the ESRC and, more recently, has collected a number of 'Dense databases' funded by the Max Planck. She is a member of the The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project, a DOBES project funded by the Volkswagen
Foundation aiming at the linguistic and ethnographic description of two endangered Sino-Tibetan languages of Nepal.
Elena Lieven’s principal areas of research involve: usage-based approaches to language development; the emergence and construction of grammar; the relationship between input characteristics and the process of language development; and variation in children's communicative environments.
Elena Lieven is the sister of Anatol Lieven
and Dominic Lieven
.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology is a research institute based in Leipzig, Germany, founded in 1997. It is part of the Max Planck Society network....
in Leipzig
Leipzig
Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
(Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
). She is Director of the Max Planck Child Study Centre in the School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester
University of Manchester
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. It is a "red brick" university and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities and the N8 Group...
and holds a Professorship there and an Honorary Professorship at Leipzig University. She studied Experimental Psychology at Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
and then did her PhD on language development at Cambridge before moving to the University of Manchester. From 1996 - 2005 she was Editor of the Journal of Child Language.
Elena has been centrally involved in the design and collection of naturalistic child language corpora initially funded by the ESRC and, more recently, has collected a number of 'Dense databases' funded by the Max Planck. She is a member of the The Chintang and Puma Documentation Project, a DOBES project funded by the Volkswagen
Volkswagen
Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...
Foundation aiming at the linguistic and ethnographic description of two endangered Sino-Tibetan languages of Nepal.
Elena Lieven’s principal areas of research involve: usage-based approaches to language development; the emergence and construction of grammar; the relationship between input characteristics and the process of language development; and variation in children's communicative environments.
Elena Lieven is the sister of Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven
Peter Paul Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International...
and Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven
Dominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge...
.
See also
- Dominic LievenDominic LievenDominic Lieven is Professor of Russian Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the British Academyand of Trinity College, Cambridge...
- Anatol LievenAnatol LievenPeter Paul Anatol Lieven is a British author, journalist, and policy analyst. He is presently a Senior Researcher at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism, Associated Scholar of the Transnational Crisis Project, Chair of International...
- Dorothea LievenDorothea LievenHSH Princess Dorothea von Lieven , née Benckendorff , a Baltic German noblewoman and wife of Prince Khristofor Andreyevich Lieven, Russian ambassador to London, 1812 to 1834, was a political force in her own right....
- Christopher Lieven