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鈥� 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鈥檚 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.).聽 Atlas and Survey of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures. Oxford University Press.
----------. (2013). Creolese structure dataset.聽In Michaelis, Susanne Maria, Maurer, Philiippe, Haspelmath, Martin and Huber, Magnus (eds.). Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online.聽Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.聽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.
