Current issues in early eyewitness memory. The possible role of source misattributions in the creation of false beliefs among preschoolers. The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. Cognitive and social factors in early deception. Snedeker, Jesse Prof. Snedeker will join the Harvard faculty in Fall 2001.
Language is a vehicle for transmitting meanings from one person to another.
A speaker begins with a thought but must convert it to a ribbon of sound. The recipient of the message takes the sound and, if all goes well, converts it back into a structured representation of the speaker s idea. My research focuses on how children develop this ability to translate between form and meaning. Thus, I m interested in how children learn the meanings of words, how they come to know the meanings associated with particular syntactic structures, and how they use this information to interpret sentences in real time. My work on early word learning explores the ways in which the information available in the speech the child hears supports and limits word learning.