Professor, Linguistics Department

Director, Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory, Linguistics Department

I study language and literacy development, as well as children's informal science learning. My main collaborators are: Dana McDaniel (Linguistics, U. of Southern Maine); Merrill Garrett (retired from Pyschology, U. of Arizona); Sam Supalla (SERSP, U. of Arizona); Laura Wagner (Psychology, Ohio State); Maria Emiliani (retired from Unita Sanitaria Locale, Italy). With student and community volunteers, I'm active in public engagement through festivals, K-12 schools, and museums. (See this guide from the Linguistic Society of America.) For example, this video reports on a 2016 course taught in collaboration with Children's Museum Tucson.

If you'd like to dip your toes into linguistic waters, visit Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine. It's run by students!