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 do some language-related citizen science, visit this website. You can discuss your favorite topics, vote on research questions, analyze data, and more.

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