Areas of Study

Research

By Center Sites

Cornell University
  • Multilingualism Development in the Young Child
  • Acquisition of Semantic Spatial Categories
  • Cross-Linguistic Study of First Language Acquisition of Adverbial Subordinate Clause adjunction and anaphora in Right and Left Branching Languages
  • VP Ellipsis in English Language Acquisition
  • Development of autobiographical memory, self, and emotion knowledge

    • Boston College
  • Pied-piping in embedded contexts in English

    • MIT


    University of Texas at El Paso
  • Determining Individual Language Proficiencies and Practices in El Paso and Juarez
  • SISD Interviews of Instructors and Students on Sheltered English for Immigrants


    • Rutgers New Brunswick
  • Null subjects, agreement and switch reference systems in Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals


    • Rutgers Newark
  • The development of two languages among Spanish-English Bilingual children
  • Effects of Bilingualism on the Grammatical Development of Hispanic Children

    • Southern Illinois University

    California State University: San Bernardino

    City University of New York



    By Subject

    First language acquisition
  • Acquisition of Semantic Spatial Categories
  • Cross-Linguistic Study of First Language Acquisition of Adverbial Subordinate Clause adjunction and anaphora in Right and Left Branching Languages
  • VP Ellipsis in English Language Acquisition
  • Development of autobiographical memory, self, and emotion knowledge


    • Second language acquisition and bilingualism
  • Multilingualism Development in the Young Child
  • Acquisition of Semantic Spatial Categories
  • Null subjects, agreement and switch reference systems in Shipibo-Spanish bilinguals
  • Effects of Bilingualism on the Grammatical Development of Hispanic Children
  • The development of two languages among Spanish-English Bilingual children
  • Determining Individual Language Proficiencies and Practices in El Paso and Juarez
  • Pied-piping in embedded contexts in English
  • SISD Interviews of Instructors and Students on Sheltered English for Immigrants


    • Brain Science

    Cross Linguistic Study



    Initial Collaborative Research Modules

    A. SEARCHING FOR UNIVERSALS OF THE LANGUAGE FACULTY
    Comparative cross-linguistic studies of the development of verbal inflection in child language: English, Tamil, Spanish and French
    {Lust, Gair, Lakshmanan, Blume, Sanchez and Foley}

    B. LANGUAGE-COGNITION RELATIONS
    Cognitive categorization and linguistic classification: The acquisition of Chinese classifiers and English and Korean prepositions/ postpositions
    {Chien, Casasola, Sackler Institute}         		C. CHILD MULTILINGUALISM
    Contrasts to monolingual acquisition
    Role of the grammars
    Interaction with cognitive factors
    e.g., executive attention
    {Flynn, Foley, Sackler Institute, Austin, Lakshmanan, Chien, Sanchez and Blume}

    D. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND LITERACY MULTILINGUALISM AND LITERACY
    {Temple, Sackler Institute, Sanchez, Gair}








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