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Letitia R. Naigles

Letitia R. Naigles

Title: Professor
Departmental Program: Developmental
E-mail: letitia.naigles@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-4942


Webpage: http://www.cll.uconn.edu

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Language acquisition
  • Cross-linguistic language development
  • Language and thought

Undergraduate courses:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Research Methods in Development
  • Language Development

Graduate courses:

  • Language Acquisition
  • Discourse

Representative Publications:

  • Naigles, L.R. (2002) Form is easy, meaning is hard: Resolving a paradox in early child language. Cognition 86, 157-199.
  • Lee, J. & Naigles, L.R. (2005) Input to Verb Learning in Mandarin Chinese: A Role for Syntactic Bootstrapping. Developmental Psychology 41, 529-540.
  • Naigles, L., Bavin, E., & Smith, M. (2005) Toddlers recognize verbs in novel situations and sentences. Developmental Science 8, 424-431.
  • Kelley, E., Paul, J., Fein, D., & Naigles, L. (2006) Residual language deficits in children with a history of autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 36, 807-828.