Language Processing & Acquisition
A second constellation of faculty and students studies the nature of language processing and acquisition. This research spans a broad set of topics, ranging from the perception of speech sounds and words, the production and comprehension of spoken and written language, and the acquisition of spoken languages by young children and adults, to investigations of the structure, processing, and acquisition of signed languages. The Center for Language Sciences, an interdisciplinary research unit associated with the department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, brings together our own faculty, fellows and students with language scientists from the departments of Linguistics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.
Primary Faculty
 Experience and the development of speech and language |
 Language and the brain |
 Language production and comprehension |
 Lexical access in speech production |
 Acquisition of languages; spoken and signed creolization |
 Structure, emergence, and creolization of sign languages |
 Language processing, word recognition |
*Not accepting graduate students
Secondary Faculty
 Computational linguistics and discourse processing |
 Natural language semantics; discourse |
 Statistical approaches to natural language processing |
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 Phonology and articulatory phonetics |
 Syntax and syntactic theory |
 Semantics and computation |