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List Of Language Acquisition Researchers
Below are some notable researchers in language acquisition listed by intellectual orientation and research topic. Nativists * Eric Lenneberg * Steven Pinker * Stephen Crain * Thomas Bever * Susan Gelman * Susan Carey * Elizabeth Spelke * Lila R. Gleitman Empiricists * Elizabeth Bates * Michael Tomasello * Brian MacWhinney * Elissa L. Newport * Linda B. Smith * Jenny Saffran * Elena Lieven * Dan Slobin * Barbara Landau * Melissa Bowerman * Adele Goldberg * Richard N. Aslin * Janet Werker * Roger Brown * LouAnn Gerken * Jean Berko Gleason * Edward Klima * Ursula Bellugi * Gary Marcus * Paul Bloom * Eve V. Clark Generative Language Acquisition * Lydia White * Luigi Rizzi * Thomas Bever * Nina Hyams * Rosemarie Tracy Second language acquisition researchers * H. Douglas Brown * Martin Bygate * John Bissell Carroll * Pit Corder * Alister Cumming * Nick Ellis * Rod Ellis * Susan Gass * Fred Genesee * Shaofeng Li * François Grosjean * Luke Harding * Keith Johns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Language Acquisition
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language (in other words, gain the ability to be aware of language and to understand it), as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition involves structures, rules and representation. The capacity to use language successfully requires one to acquire a range of tools including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and an extensive vocabulary. Language can be vocalized as in speech, or manual as in sign. Human language capacity is represented in the brain. Even though human language capacity is finite, one can say and understand an infinite number of sentences, which is based on a syntactic principle called recursion. Evidence suggests that every individual has three recursive mechanisms that allow sentences to go indeterminately. These three mechanisms are: ''relativization'', ''complementation'' and ''coordination''. There are two ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Landau
Dr. Barbara Landau is the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University. Landau specializes in language learning, spatial representation and relationships between these foundational systems of human knowledge. She examines questions about how the two systems work together to enhance human cognition and whether one is actually foundational to the other. She is known for her research on unusual cases of development and is a leading authority on language and spatial information in people with Williams syndrome. Education & background Landau received her B.A. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, her Ed.M. in educational psychology from Rutgers University in 1977 and her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Prior to her current position at Johns Hopkins University, she was a faculty member at Columbia University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Delaware. She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lydia White
Lydia White (born 1946) is a Canadian linguist and educator in the area of second language acquisition (SLA). She is James McGill Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at McGill University.Faculty Page McGill University. Retrieved on April 6, 2020 Biography She received her BA in Moral Sciences and Psychology from in 1969 and PhD in from in 1980. Her PhD dissertation, publ ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eve V
The Eve V is a 2-in-1 detachable personal computer manufactured by Finnish technology company Eve-Tech, released on December 4, 2017. The computer itself was the first computer to be developed, designed and manufactured in collaboration with the local community through crowdsourcing. Subsequently, it was successfully crowdfunded through Indiegogo. It was designed to in a similar fashion as other 2-in-1 detachable like the Microsoft Surface Pro through a community effort, promising users no bloatware attached. History Eve-Tech was founded in December 2013. Their first product, prior to the Eve V, was a Windows 8.1-based tablet computer, the Eve T1, which was announced on December 2, 2014 and released on December 8. Over the course of time, the V was developed in an open online community with more than 1,000 members collaborating globally with Eve-Tech. The computer was announced in October 2016, and a pre-order campaign was initiated on the crowdfunding platform Indiegogo one m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bloom (psychologist)
Paul Bloom (born December 24, 1963) is a Canadian American psychologist. He is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor Emeritus of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University and Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. His research explores how children and adults understand the physical and social world, with special focus on language, morality, religion, fiction, and art. Early life and education Bloom was born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Quebec. As an undergraduate he attended McGill University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology (with honors first class) in 1985. He attended graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a PhD in cognitive psychology in 1990, under the supervision of Susan Carey. As a rationalist and a self-declared atheist, he rejects all notions of spirits, deities, and the afterlife. Career From 1990 to 1999, he taught psychology and cognitive science at the University of Ari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Marcus
Gary F. Marcus (born February 8, 1970) is a professor emeritus of psychology and neural science at New York University. In 2014 he founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine-learning company later acquired by Uber. Marcus's books include '' Guitar Zero,'' which appeared on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list, and ''Kluge,'' which was a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice. Marcus challenges connectionist theories which rely on random connections and argues instead that neurons can be put together into circuits that do things such as process rules or process structured representations. He hypothesizes that a small number of genes account for the functioning of the intricate human brain. He criticizes the use of massive amounts of data to build artificial intelligence systems, arguing: "If we are to build artificial general intelligence, we are going to need to learn something from humans, how they reason and understand the physical world, and how they represent and acquire lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula Bellugi
Ursula Bellugi (February 21, 1931 – April 17, 2022) was an American cognitive neuroscientist. She was a Distinguished Professor Emerita and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. She is known for research on the neurological bases of American Sign Language and language representation in people with Williams Syndrome. Early life and education Bellugi was born in Jena, Germany. Her father was Maximilian Herzberger, a physicist and mathematician at the University of Jena. He was Jewish and lost his job during the Third Reich. Albert Einstein helped him to emigrate to Rochester, NY, where he became head of the Kodak company's optical research laboratories.She studied psychology and received a B.A. from Antioch College in 1952 and an Ed.D. from Harvard University in 1967. Career In 1968 she moved to California, working at the Salk Institute. Beginning 1970 she was Director of its Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Klima
Edward S. Klima (June 21, 1931 – September 25, 2008) was an American eminent linguist who specialized in the study of sign languages. Klima's work was heavily influenced by Noam Chomsky's then-revolutionary theory of the biological basis of linguistics, and applied that analysis to sign languages. Klima, much of whose work was in collaboration with his wife, Ursula Bellugi, was among the first to prove that sign languages are complete languages and have complex grammars that have all the features of grammars of oral languages. Widespread recognition of this fact was one of the catalysts of the cultural changes in and towards the deaf community in favor of encouraging the use of sign language, which had often been discouraged in favor of lip reading in the past. Education and career Klima graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School in Cleveland, Ohio in 1949. He studied linguistics at Dartmouth College, earning his bachelor's degree in 1953. Two years later, he received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Berko Gleason
Jean Berko Gleason (born 1931) is a psycholinguist and professor emerita in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University who has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of language acquisition in children, aphasia, gender differences in language development, and parent–child interactions. Gleason created the Wug Test, in which a child is shown pictures with nonsense names and then prompted to complete statements about them, and used it to demonstrate that even young children possess implicit knowledge of linguistic morphology. Menn and Ratner have written that "Perhaps no innovation other than the invention of the tape recorder has had such an indelible effect on the field of child language research", the "wug" (one of the imaginary creatures Gleason drew in creating the Wug Test) being "so basic to what sycholinguistsknow and do that increasingly it appears in the popular literature without attribution to its origins." Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken (born May 20, 1959) is a Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. She is the author of a book on language development and has over 80 published articles and book chapters on the topic. Her education includes a B.A. in Psychology (University of Rochester, 1981), an M.A. in Experimental Psychology (Columbia University, 1983), and a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology (Columbia University, 1987). Book * ''Language Development'' References External links Official Homepageat the University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ... * LouAnn Gerken: The Making of a Mind 1959 births Living people Linguists from the United States Teachers College, Columbia University alumni University of Rochester a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Brown (psychologist)
Roger William Brown (April 14, 1925 – December 11, 1997) was an American psychologist. He was known for his work in social psychology and in children's language development. Brown taught at Harvard University from 1952 until 1957 and from 1962 until 1994, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1957 until 1962. His scholarly books include ''Words and Things: An Introduction to Language'' (1958), ''Social Psychology'' (1965), ''Psycholinguistics'' (1970), ''A First Language: The Early Stages'' (1973), and ''Social Psychology: The Second Edition'' (1985). He authored numerous journal articles and book chapters. He was the doctoral adviser or a post-doctoral mentor of many researchers in child language development and psycholinguistics, including Jean Berko Gleason, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Camile Hanlon, Dan Slobin, Ursula Bellugi, Courtney Cazden, Richard F. Cromer, David McNeill, Eric Lenneberg, Colin Fraser, Eleanor Rosch (Heider), Melissa Bowerman, Steven Pink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Werker
Janet F. Werker is a researcher in the field of developmental psychology. She researches the foundations of monolingual and bilingual infant language acquisition in infants at the University of British Columbia's Infant Studies Centre. Her research has pioneered what are now accepted baselines in the field, showing that language learning begins in early infancy (even before birth) and is shaped by experience across the first year of life. Werker received her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of British Columbia in 1982. She is a Canada Research Chair and Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia and is the recipient of the 2015 SSHRC Gold Medal. On 29 December 2017, Werker was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, "for her internationally renowned contributions to our understanding of speech perception and language acquisition in infants." In 2019, she was named one of four recipients of a William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
