Kenneth Wexler is Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at MIT. His research interests include language acquisition and psycholinguistic theory and he is the principal investigator for the Wexler ab/Normal Language Lab in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1970. Some relevant publications include “The development of inflection in a biologically based theory of language acquisition,” in Toward a Genetics of Language; “Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint: A new explanation of the optional infinitive stage,” in Lingua; (with C. Schutze and M. Rice) “Subject case in children with SLI and unaffected controls: Evidence for the Agr/Tns omission model,” in Language Acquisition; and “Lenneberg's Dream: Learning Normal Language Development and Specific Language Impairment,” in Language competence across populations: Towards a definition of Specific Language Impairment.
Seminar in Major Recent Topics in the Development of Syntax and Semantics | LSA.215
MW 8:15-9:55
Three Week Course | Second Session
Seminar in the Theory of the Acquisition of Inflection and Clause Structure | LSA.216
with Luigi Rizzi
MW 1:00-2:40
Three Week Course | Second Session |