 Professor and Honors Advisor
Developmental Psycholinguistics
U Connecticut, 1988
Communication 316
(520) 621-2188
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My teaching emphasizes inter-disciplinary approaches in cross-listed courses and my lab. My research concerns how children acquire syntax in three branches: cross-linguistic comparisons of language structures, children's processing mechanisms, and developmental language impairments. I'm interested in questions about both universals and particulars that are evident during children's convergence on the adult grammar. My main collaborators are Merrill Garrett (Pyschology, U. of Arizona), Sam Supalla (SERSP, U. of Arizona), Dana McDaniel (Linguistics, U. of Southern Maine), Sigridur Sigurjónsdóttir (Icelandic Linguistics, U. of Reykavijk, Iceland), and Maria Emiliani (USL, Imola, Italy). |
