Research interests
- Lexical development in infants and young children
- Fast mapping in early word learning
- Word comprehension-production gap
- Category knowledge, semantic priming, and naming
- Relationship between speech and gesture
The focus of her research is on the development of language in infants and young children. Studies carried out in her lab are designed to address how children become fast and efficient speakers of language. Of particular interest is the relation between language comprehension and production: how children's understanding and use of words change over time, and why there are gaps between what children know and what they say. Also of interest is gestures' role in speaking, particularly as it relates to difficulties with lexical retrieval.
We are currently examining the development of word retrieval abilities in typically developing children and children with impairments in language.
