Research Interests: How lexical and phonological information are used in language processing by children, adults, native, and nonnative speakers. Current research on spoken language comprehension examines the use of the relationship between lexical category and stress pattern, vowel type, and number of syllables.

Courses:
Psychology 205 Experimental Methods and Statistics

By the end of the course you should be able to understand the role of chance in experimentation, understand the results section in scientific reports, be able to gather data, and make a preliminary examination that is effective and responsible.

Analysis of mental processes and mental architecture. Topics include: Attention, Pattern recognition, Memory, Imagery, Language, and Problem solving.

I. What is language? Is a "communication system" an adequate answer?

II. What is the biological foundation of language? How are the sounds, structure, and semantics of language acquired, organized in the brain, impaired or spared in old age and brain injury? What are the consequences of poor input (isolated deaf, feral children, pidgin languages)? What are the consequences of poor endowment (Down's syndrome children)?

III. How to analyze conversation as flow of information. Use: Pattern recognition, memory, attention, and reasoning. Some consideration of language as social interaction

IV. Language and intelligence; different writing systems; learning to read.