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Roberta Corrigan

  • Professor Emerita, Linguistics

Education

  • PhD, University of Denver 1976
  • MA, University of Denver 1973
  • BA, Oberlin College 1971

Courses Taught

  • First Language Acquisition (Linguistics, Fall, 2010)
  • Oral Language, Cognition, and Literacy (Linguistics and Education, Spring, 2011)
  • Introduction to Learning and Development (in Education)
  • Infancy and Early Childhood Development (in Education)
  • Social Cognition (in Education)

Teaching Interests

Applications of basic research in Psychology to Linguistics and Education

Research Interests

  • General:
    • First language acquisition
    • Relationships between language and cognition/social cognition
    • Psychology of language
    • Usage-based theories of language
  • Specific:
    • Role of language input and cognition on first language acquisition
    • Relations between oral language on literacy
    • Acquisition of word meanings
    • Learning vocabulary

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