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What makes human language special?
All animals communicate, but human language is uniquely structured. In her new book, The Phonological Mind, psychology professor Iris Berent asks why that is.
The building blocks of dyslexia
New research from psychology professor Iris Berent shows that dyslexia may stem from a difficulty processing the basic units of language.
The innate ability to learn language
Psychology professor Iris Berent is using both behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to investigate whether our ability to learn language is present at birth.
Examining the sound-patterns of world languages
Linguistics professor on quest to advance theory that humans have special instinct for language
Selected Publications
For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.
Dyslexia Impairs Speech Recognition but Can Spare Phonological Competence
(with V. Vaknin-Nusbaum, E. Balaban, and A. M. Galaburda) PLoS ONE, 7(9): p. e44875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044875.
On the role of variables in phonology: Remarks on Hayes and Wilson
(with C. Wilson, G. Marcus, and D. Bemis) Linguistic Inquiry, 43.
How linguistic chickens help spot spoken-eggs: phonological constraints on speech identification
(with E. Balaban, and V. Vaknin-Nusbaum)Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2, doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00182.
