Professor, Linguistics Department

Director, Developmental Psycholinguistics Laboratory

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science [UA News story]

I study language and literacy development, as well as informal science learning. My main collaborators are: Dana McDaniel (Linguistics, U. of Southern Maine); Merrill Garrett (retired from Pyschology, U. of Arizona); Sam Supalla (retired from 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. And this 2022 piece in The Conversation describes some of what slips of the tongue can teach us.

If you'd like to dip your toes into linguistic waters, see these resources:

• Unravel: The Accessible Linguistics Magazine
• Lingthusiasm
• Talk the Talk
• The Ling Space
• Linguistics Roadshow
• Field Notes