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Language Research Acquisition Research Center
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LARC Directors

 

Tom Roeper

First Language Acquisition
Department of Linguistics

 

Luiz Amaral

Second Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Barbara Pearson

Bilingual Acquisition
Department of Linguistics

 

 

Faculty Members

 

Theresa Austin

Language & Literacy; Planning & Policy; Multilingualism and Translanguaging, Assessment and Bilingual Teacher Education, Language and Ideology
School of Education

 

Seth Cable

Semantics, Syntax, Native American Languages
Department of Linguistics

 

Jill de Villiers

First Language Acquisition
Department of Psychology (Smith College)

 

Brian Dillon

Language Processing
Department of Linguistics

 

Lisa Green

African American Language, Language Acquisition
Department of Linguistics

 

Patricia Gubitosi

Heritage Language Speakers
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Jeremy Hartman

First Language Acquisition, Syntax
Department of Linguistics

 

Magda Oiry

First Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Peggy Speas

Syntax, Native American Languages
Department of Linguistics

 

Laura Valdiviezo

Multicultural Education; Teachers as Researchers
School of Education

 

Yuki Yoshimura

Second Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Leteratures and Cultures

 

Graduate Students

 

Michael Clauss

Syntax, First Language Acquisition
Department of Linguistics

 

Tracy Conner

First Language Acquisition, African American English
Department of Linguistics

 

Andie Faber

Second Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Jon Nelson

Second Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Maria Turrero

Second Language Acquisition
Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures

 

Visiting Scholars

 

Walter Sistrunk (2011 to present)

Syntax, African American English
Michigan State University

 

Rama Novogrodsky (2011 to present)

Visiting Scholar - Harvard University
Tel Aviv University - Israel

 

Hu Tingshan (2011 - 2012)

Associate Professor
School of Foreign Languages
Southeast University - Nanjing city
Jiangsu Province -China

 

Raquel Fallet Lawall (2012)

PhD Student
Department of Linguistics
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

 

Gustavo Freire (2011 - 2012)

PhD Student
Department of Linguistics
Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP)- Brazil