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Developmental linguistics is the study of the development of linguistic ability in an individual, particularly the acquisition of language in childhood. It involves research into the different stages in language acquisition, language retention, and language loss in both first and second languages, in addition to the area of bilingualism .
David Richard Olson (born June 16, 1935) is a Canadian cognitive developmental psychologist who has studied the development of language, literacy, and cognition, particularly the mental lives of children, their understanding of language and mind and the psychology of teaching.
Susan E. Carey (born 1942 [1]) is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at Harvard University.She studies language acquisition, children's development of concepts, conceptual changes over time, and the importance of executive functions. [2]
Developmental psychology examines the influences of nature and nurture on the process of human development, as well as processes of change in context across time. Many researchers are interested in the interactions among personal characteristics, the individual's behavior, and environmental factors , including the social context and the built ...
Shatz's research points to the interaction between nature and nurture in the process of language acquisition. [5] Her empirical studies employed experimental methodologies [12] [13] [14] and cross-linguistic [13] investigation to explore ideas such as the impact of social interaction on the development of children's communicative skills, [14] as well as the effect of language on the ...
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. [1] The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.
Elika Bergelson is a language scientist known for her work on language acquisition and cognitive development.She was the principal investigator of the SEEDLingS project, a longitudinal study of word learning in infants from 6 to 18 months.
Goldin-Meadow got her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied with Rochel Gelman and Lila Gleitman.Before coming to Penn and while an undergraduate at Smith College, she spent a year at the Piagetian Institute in Geneva, where she conducted research with Barbel Inhelder and Hermine Sinclair and took courses with Jean Piaget.