Anne Fernald
Associate Professor
Josephine Knotts Knowles Professor in Human Biology
Primary Area:
Developmental Email:
[email protected] Office Location:
Jordan Hall, Building 420 Room 202 Office phone:
(650) 724-8630 Admin. Assistant:
Sylvia Paris Research Summary
Early development of communication and language. Using online measures of spoken language understanding, we investigate the development of speed and efficiency in children's early comprehension in relation to their emerging lexical and grammatical competence. In addition to our ongoing research with English-learning children at our Stanford campus lab, in have recently established a new lab in East Palo Alto. Here we are exploring early bilingual development with Latino infants and young children learning Spanish as well as English.
Education
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Oregon, 1982