H.A.R. Yates (Harriet) MA

Harriet Yates is a PhD candidate in philosophy of language and experimental linguistics. She researches how commitments are attributed, maintained, and negotiated in conversation. She uses facial electromyography (fEMG), novel in this field, to measure subtle facial muscle activity as an indicator of implicit judgments. This interdisciplinary approach seeks to bridge pragmatic theory with empirical data.

Harriet is primarily affiliated with the Center of Cognition, Culture and Language, and also with the Grammar & Cognition research group, and is a member of the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences.