Senior Scientist, Haskins Laboratories
Associate Professior, Linguistics, University of Connecticut

Research Interests:

Child Language Acquisition (Syntax, Morphology, Semantics).
Comparative Syntax and Morphology.
Syntax-Semantics Interface.

Publications and Conference Presentations

Editorial Responsibilities:

Editor, Language Acquisition.

Board of Editors, Annual Review of Language Acquisition.

Review Board, Snippets.

Administrative Responsibilities:

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics.

Co-Director, Language Acquisition Laboratory.

Teaching Responsibilities:

Undergraduate Courses:
Ling 101: Language and Mind
Ling 202: Principles of Linguistics
Ling 215C: Experimental Linguistics

Graduate Courses:
Ling 323: Acquisition of Syntax
Ling 332: Methods in Acquisition
Ling 333: Readings and Research in Acquisition
Ling 334: Advanced Topics in Acquisition

Additional Affiliations:

Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics (Advisory Board).

Education: Ph.D., 1995, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Joint Doctoral Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science,
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Research Internship in Cognitive Neuroscience,
Massachusetts General Hospital, 1989-1990.

S.B., 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Department of Brain and Cognitive