Dr Heather Winskel BSc(Hons)(US), GradDipLangSt(WAust), DipEd(UWA), PhD(UD) Dr Heather Winskel’s main areas of research are in the areas of language acquisition and reading research, particularly in the languages of Southeast Asia. She also has an interest in developmental and cross-cultural psychology. Traditionally, research has focused on Indo-European languages and yet Asian languages and their writing systems have distinctive, very interesting and useful characteristics for future psycholinguistic research. By including these lesser studied languages, we can build more comprehensive and representative universal models of psycholinguistic mechanisms and processes. Dr Winskel has built up a number of collaborations with international colleagues in Europe, North America, and Asia. Dr Heather Winskel’s research and teaching are mainly in the areas of cognitive, developmental and cross-cultural psychology. She is currently teaching undergraduate units in developmental and cross cultural Psychology at the Coffs Harbour campus.
Book Chapters
A comparison of caretaker-child conversations about past personal experiences in Thailand and Australia, Human communication science: a compendium (2011)
Eye movements when reading spaced and unspaced Thai and English: a comparison of Thai- English bilinguals and English monolinguals (with R Radach and S Luksaneeyanawin), Human communication science: a compendium (2011)
Child language acquisition in Malaysia: a psycholinguistic perspective (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Child development: theories, issues and challenges (2008)
Interaction between language and cognition in language development, Mental states vol. 2: Language and cognitive structure (2007)
Journal articles
Malay numeral classifier usage in caretaker-child talk (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), GEMA Journal of Language Studies (2012)
To the nativists and cognitivists, input plays a minor role in language acquisition; however, more...
Object categorisation using Malay shape-based numeral classifiers (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Journal of Language Studies (2011)
Categorisation is fundamental in human cognition and language development. Crosslinguisticstudies on categorisation propose numeral classifiers...
Orthographic and phonological parafoveal processing of consonants, vowels, and tones when reading Thai, Applied Psycholinguistics (2011)
Four eye movement experiments investigated whether readers use parafoveal input to gain information about the...
The pragmatic functions of numeral classifiers in modern Malay written corpus (with Khazriyati Salehuddin and Marlyna Maros), GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies (2011)
Numeral classifiers are primarily used to provide semantic information about the physical and functional properties...
A comparison of caretaker-child conversations about past personal experiences in Thailand and Australia, Journal of Cross-cultural Psychology (2010)
This study investigated the conversations between caretakers and children about past personal experiences in Anglo-Australian...
Conference publications
Eye movements and reading and what it can reveal about consonant and vowel processing, International Conference on Recent Advances in Cognitive Science (2010)
Eye tracking technology: its scope and limitations in reading, Global Summit, The National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) (2010)
Object categorisation into Malay shape-based numeral classifiers (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), ASEAN RegionalUunion of Psychological Societies 3rd congress (2010)
Socialization and enculturation of the child through caretaker-child interactions, ASEAN Regional Union of Psychological Societies 3rd Congress 2010 (2010)
An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through a matching comprehension task (with Khazriyati Salehuddin), Australian Human Development Association Biennial Conference (2009)
Reports, presentations, workshops
An introduction to eye tracking technology and its applications, Colloquium for Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (2010)
Reading and spelling in Thai children, Workshop on Reading Difficulties in Children Learning Asian Languages: 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (ICCS ‘08) (2008)
The importance of linguistic and cultural context in narrative development and the diagnosis of communication disorders, HCSNET workshop on narrative & communication disorders (2008)
Eye movements and reading research across different orthographies, School of Psychology Colloquium, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, July 2007 (2007)