A narration of a recent talk at BUCLD (Wang & Mintz, 2012): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Research Interests
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My general research interests are in the
cognitive mechanisms that underlie language acquisition. One line
of research investigates the methods by which infants and very
young children acquire fundamental syntactic knowledge about the
language they are learning. Another line of work investigates
how two- and three-year olds learn the meanings of novel words.
These research programs are connected by a common question about
the nature of the mechanisms that give rise to linguistic abilities,
and the effects of environmental input on these mechanisms. A
common goal is to investigate how best to understand the similarities
and differences between language learning and learning in other
domains, and what the primary influences on language acquisition
are.
Selected Publications
Wang, H., Höhle, B., Ketrez, N. F., Küntay, A. C., & Mintz, T. H. (2011). Cross-linguistic Distributional Analyses with Frequent Frames: The Cases of German and Turkish. In N. Danis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 628-640). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Wang, H., & Mintz, T. (2010). From linear sequences to abstract structures: Distributional information in infant-directed speech. In A Supplement to the Proceedings of the 34th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Chemla, E., Mintz, T. H., Bernal, S., & Christophe, A. (2009). Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies. Developmental Science, 12(3), 396-406.
Mintz, T. H. (2009). Language Development. In L. R. Squire (Ed.), New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (pp. 313-319). Oxford: Academic Press.
Wang, H, & Mintz, T. H. (2008). A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames. In H. Chan, E. Kapia, & H. Jacob (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 525-536). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
