BarbKelly

Username: BarbKelly

Participant details

	Network Member	Barbara Kelly
	Organisation/Institution	University of Melbourne
	Department/Centre	Linguistics
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	Research area	Linguistics Psycholinguistics
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Research Interests

Gesture & Gesture + Speech intergration, CMC across communities, Online language use. Barbara Kelly is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on language development through gesture. During this time she carried out fieldwork resulting in a grammar of Sherpa and a love of Tibetan salt tea. She has had a teaching position at Stanford and has also worked in the Social Computing group at IBM, and at Lexicon Branding, Inc which created such brand names such as Pentium, Powerbook, Blackberry, and Zune. Her primary research interests focus around social interaction and social intelligence in online communities.