Derek Bickerton

Derek Bickerton

male, 83 years old
acquire language, Roots of Language, Language and Species, human, languageacquisition, Contemporary artist…Origins of language, creole language
Derek Bickerton (born March 25, 1926) is a linguist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Based on his work in creole...
Elizabeth Bates

Elizabeth Bates

female, deceased (2003)
Pancreatic cancer death, cancer, pancreatic, ucsd, Cognitive scientist, languageacquisition
Elizabeth Bates (July 26, 1947 - December 13, 2003) was professor of cognitive science at the University of California, San Diego. Bates was a...
Paul Pimsleur

Paul Pimsleur

male, deceased (1972)
Columbia University, Ohio State University, linguist, French, American, applied linguistics…languageacquisition, Pimsleur language learning system
Paul Pimsleur (1928 - 1972) was an authority in the field of applied linguistics. He taught French phonetics and phonemics at the University of...
Dan Slobin

Dan Slobin

male (Berkeley, California, United States)
Psychologist, Dan Isaac Slobin, language acquisition device, University of California, Berkeley faculty, University of California, Berkeley, Psycholinguistics…languageacquisition
Dan Isaac Slobin is an American psychologist working at the University of California, Berkeley, who has made major contributions to the study of...
Catherine E. Snow

Catherine E. Snow

female
Educational psychologist, educational psychology, bilingualism, languageacquisition, Harvard Graduate School of Education, American Educational Research Association
Catherine Elizabeth Snow is an educational psychologist who has contributed significantly to theories of bilingualism and language acquisition...
Eric Lenneberg

Eric Lenneberg

male, deceased (1975)
Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, George Miller, linguistics…languageacquisition, The Language Instinct, Biological Foundations of Language
Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of...
Peter H. Salus

Peter H. Salus

male
USENIX, linguistics, professor, COMPUTING systems, GNU, Germanistics…languageacquisition
Peter H. Salus is a linguist, computer scientist, historian of technology, author in many fields, and an editor of books and journals. He has...
William Brandon Snyder

William Brandon Snyder

male
oxford university press, linguist, phonology, Associate Professor, University of Connecticut faculty, acquisition…languageacquisition, Child Language The Parametric Approach
William Snyder is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, and since 2003 has been co-editor of "Language...
J. Charles Alderson

J. Charles Alderson

male
professor, lancaster, european, languageacquisition, language, reading…English Language Education
Charles was Co-ordinator of the ENLTA Project (European Network for Language Testing and Assessment), funded by the European Commission from 2003...