Dahlia Thompson
Doctoral Student
BA Language and Linguistics
PG. Dip Information Technology
Cert. Project Management
MPhil Computer Science
Dahlia's research focus is reading achievement, especially boys’ literacy learning and the role of self-regulation (executive function) skills in their learning outcomes. She also has a keen interest in cross-cultural awareness and competence in health sciences and education.
Rvachew, S. & Thompson, D. (accepted). A description of boys and girls nonnverbal and verbal engagement with electronic and paper books. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology.
Rvachew, S., Thompson, D., & Dey, R. (accepted). Can technology help close the gender gap in literacy achievement? Evidence from boys and girls sharing ebooks. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
Revelle, G., Strouse, G., Troseth, G., Rvachew, S., & Thompson Forrester, D. 2019. Technology Support for Adults and Children Reading Together: Questions Answered and Questions Raised. In J. E. Kim & B. Hassinger-Das (Eds.), Reading in the Digital Age: Young Children’s Experiences with E-books: International Studies with E-books in Diverse Contexts (pp. 103-132). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:
Thompson, Dahlia and Ashley Hamilton-Taylor. (submitted). Evaluation of navi, a Jamaican Creole Synthetic Voice. Society for Caribbean Linguistics Occasional Paper OP-MS005.
Devonish, Hubert and Dahlia Thompson. (2013). Creolese. In Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Maurer, Philiippe, Haspelmath, Martin and Huber, Magnus (eds.). Atlas and Survey of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford University Press.
----------. (2013). Creolese structure dataset. In Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Maurer, Philiippe, Haspelmath, Martin and Huber, Magnus (eds.). Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Available online at
----------. (2013). Guyanese Creole (Creolese). In Kortmann, Bernd and Kerstin Lunkenheimer (eds.), The Mouton World Atlas of Variation in English: Grammar. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 265-278. DOI: 10.1515/9783110280128.265
----------. (2010). A Concise Grammar of Guyanese Creole. Muenchen: Lincom.
