Erin C
- Research Program Mentor
PhD Doctor of Philosophy candidate
Expertise
language acquisition, psycholinguistics, corpus analysis, child development
Project ideas
Project ideas are meant to help inspire student thinking about their own project. Students are in the driver seat of their research and are free to use any or none of the ideas shared by their mentors.
Cockadoodle doo! How do kids learn animal words?
Why do children seem to learn animal sounds ("meow") before they learn animals names ("cat"). We'll study how parents talk to children about animals and when children learn words for different animals.