I was awarded my BBSc(Hons) in 1999 and my PhD (Psycholinguistics) in 2004, both from La Trobe University. Over my career I have worked at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The University of Manchester, and La Trobe University. I came to the ANU in 2012, originally working in the Research School of Psychology. In 2022 I moved over to SLLL to take up a position as Professor of Linguistics.

My research is in psycholinguistics. I work both on language acquisition (inc. first language acquisition, bilingualism, & second language acquisition) and adult language processing. My recent research has focused on individual differences in language acquisition and use, the relationship between language acquisition and on-line sentence processing in crosslinguistic perspective, and the influence of typological diversity on sentence planning and production. Accordingly, my research group works on several typologically-diverse languages. I also have a keen interest in how language interfaces with other social and cognitive processes. Along these lines, over the past 10 years or so my students and I have been investigating the relationship between language acquisition and symbolic play.  

Most of my past papers are downloadable from here: https://www.mpi.nl/people/kidd-evan/publications

BBSc(Hons) PhD (La Trobe)

Psycholinguistics (Language Acquisition & Language Processing); Developmental Psychology; Social Cognition.