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Suzanne Flynn received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1983 and is Professor of Linguistics and Language Acquisition at MIT. Her research focuses on the acquisition of various aspects of syntax by both children and adults in bilingual, second and third language acquisition contexts. More recently, her work has also focused on the neural representation of the multilingual brain as well as on the phonological and acoustic underpinnings of accent. She is the author/editor of several books including The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition (with G. Martohardjono and W. O'Neil) as well as the author of many articles published in journals and edited volumes; these include "A Minimalist Approach to L2 Solves a Dilemma of UG" (with B. Lust), "The Cumulative Enhancement Model of Language Acquisition: Evidence from English as a Third Language" (C. Foley and I. Vinnitskaya), "On the Developmental Primacy of Free Relatives" (with C. Foley), "What Makes a Non-native Accent?: A Study of Korean English" (with J. Kim), "Role of Prior Language Knowledge in the Acquisition of a Third Language" (with C. Foley and I. Vinnitskaya) and "MEG Evidence that Age of Language Learning Does Not Matter" (with C. Cuervo, K. Jacobs, and M. Schulz). She is also the co-editor of the journal Syntax with T. Stowell.

Second Language Acquisition | LSA.122
with Gita Martohardjono
TR 2:55-4:35
Three Week Course | First Session