Jeffrey Lidz is a linguistics professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. His research focuses on

syntactic In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituency), ...

aspects of

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 ...

Career

Lidz received his PhD from the University of Delaware in 1996 and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique from 1997 to 2000 and in 1998, respectively. He worked as an assistant professor at Northwestern University from 2000 to 2005 before moving to the University of Maryland. Lidz was named a Maryland Distinguished Scholar-Teacher in 2015. Much of Lidz's research focuses on the syntactic details of child language acquisition. His findings show evidence of significant syntactic development in 18-month-olds, including understandings of long-range dependency and parts of speech. Articles by Lidz arguing for the necessity of

Chomsky Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American public intellectual: a linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is ...

's theory of Universal Grammar have appeared in '' Scientific American'' and '' The Conversation''. Lidz was the editor-in-chief for ''

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 ...

'' from 2013 to 2020 and edited/co-authored the ''Oxford Handbook of Developmental Linguistics''.

References

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