Sonja Vernes
Sonja Vernes is a Senior Investigator and Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and fellow of the Donders Institute, Nijmegen. She undertook her PhD at the University of Oxford, investigating language related gene networks. She then moved to the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna as an HFSP post-doctoral fellow working on how genes are able to establish neural circuits necessary for complex behaviours. Her research group now integrates these two areas by investigating how language related gene networks contribute to the brain development and/or neural circuitry necessary to make a language-ready brain.
www.mpi.nl/people/vernes-sonja
www.mpi.nl/people/vernes-sonja
Sarah Graham
Sarah Graham is a post-doctoral researcher in the Language and Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. She completed her PhD in Biochemistry at Imperial College London in 2011. Her research explores the biological functions of language-related genes at the molecular and cellular level.
www.mpi.nl/people/graham-sarah
www.mpi.nl/people/graham-sarah
Dan Dediu
Dan Dediu is a linguist working on the inter-relationships between language and genes especially at the population level. His main interests include the effects of genetic biases on language change and evolution, the application of phylogenetic methods to the structural features of language, and quantitative methods for understanding the patterns of linguistic diversity.
www.mpi.nl/people/dediu-dan
www.mpi.nl/people/dediu-dan
Matt Goldrick
Matt Goldrick is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Northwestern University, where he is affiliated with the Northwestern Cognitive Science Program and the Northwestern Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. His research draws on behavioral experiments as well as computational and mathematical modeling to develop theories of the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying the production, perception and acquisition of sound structure. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Goldrick was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. He holds a BA, MA and PhD in Cognitive Science from the Johns Hopkins University.
Jennifer Culbertson
Jennifer Culbertson is Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2010. Her research is on language acquisition and change in the domains of syntax and morphology, with a focus on learning biases and their relation to linguistic typology.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jculber4
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jculber4
Joe Pater
Joe Pater is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and co-director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Study of Language. His research focuses on phonology and phonological acquisition, and he is currently developing models with roots in generative linguistics, cognitive psychology and machine learning to account for typological data and laboratory results.
Robert Daland
Robert Daland is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UCLA. He works on
language acquisition and phonotactics. Recent work has focused on statistical
characterization of input phonotactics, phonotactic word segmentation, comparing
phonotactic language models, modeling phonotactic errors in second language
acquisition, and investigating talker intelligibility in heritage bilinguals.
language acquisition and phonotactics. Recent work has focused on statistical
characterization of input phonotactics, phonotactic word segmentation, comparing
phonotactic language models, modeling phonotactic errors in second language
acquisition, and investigating talker intelligibility in heritage bilinguals.