I’ve written a few times about language acquisition, but I’m pretty sure this will be the first time I write about linguistics. “My research questions are based on syntax which is word structure and ordering and how we put words together to create sentences,” said assistant academic specialist Heather Littlefield of the College of Science. ...
On Friday we ran a story in the News@Northeastern about psychology professor Iris Berent’s research with infants on language acquisition. One of her main research questions is whether we are born with the innate ability to recognize linguistic rules. For instance, the word “blog” sounds okay to our ear as adults, but “bnog” does not. ...