If you are a native speaker of English and have a strong background in linguistics or computer science, or if you are fluent in German, Turkish, Russian, or Armenian, I particularly urge you to consider joining the lab. Many students who have worked in the lab have been accepted into some of the best graduate programs in cognitive and clinical psychology, speech pathology, linguistics and medicine. Students are invited to participate in any of the following projects. Normal language acquisition. In order to investigate what aspects of language must be learned and what aspects are innate, we study the types of errors that children do and dno not make and the order in which children acquire aspects of language.
Undergraduates help design experiments, test children and perform transcript-based studies.
Abnormal language acquisition. Language acquisition by children with developmental language disorders is compared with language acquisition by normal children. Undergraduates help recruit and test language-impaired children. Undergraduates also help code and analyze SLI children's data. Adult language processing.