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