Barbara Lust |
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| G57 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall |
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| Phone: (607) 255-0829 |
| Fax: (607) 255-9856 |
| Email: bcl4@cornell.edu |
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Biographical Statement:
Prof. Barbara Lust studied Developmental Psychology, Linguistics and Philosophy, as well as English literature. She received her Ph.d. in Developmental Psychology from City University of New York Graduate Center after earlier studies at L'Institut des Sciences de l"Education, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She followed this with postdoctoral study in linguistics and philosophy at MIT before coming to Cornell. Her teaching at Cornell involves Developmental Psychology and Linguistics, within an interdisciplinary perspective of Cognitive Science.
Dr. Lust's research is framed in an interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic framework, involving the study of first, second and multilingual language acquisition, especially in the child, and links theoretical paradigms to experimental methods of research. Recently she is involved in building a virtual internet-based international center for the study of language acquisition and the related science of information integration which it involves.
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Courses Taught:
HD637/Cogst637/Ling 700.4. Advanced Topics in Language Acquisition
HD/LING/COGST 436/337. Language Development. A Survey Course
COGst/HD/Ling/Psych 437/450. Lab in Language Development.
Ling/HD/Cogst 633. Seminar in Language Acquisition
HD637/Ling 700. Advanced Topics in Language Acquisition
HD334/Cogst 334. The Growth of the Mind.
Cogst 471. Research Workshop for Undergraduates.
HD 401/Ling/Cog St 700. Independent Research
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Current Professional Activities:
Director, Cornell Language Acquisition Lab. Professor, Developmental Psychology, Linguistics and Cognitive Science.
Graduate fields: Developmental Psychology, Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Asian Studies |
Education:
Postdoc 1976 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linguistics and Philosophy of Language
Ph.D. 1975 - City University of New York
Developmental Psychology
Advanced Studies 1968-1969: L'Institute des Sciences de l'Education. Geneva Switzerland.
M.A. 1971 - Fordham University
English Literature
B.A. 1963 - Manhattanville College
English Literature |
Current Research Activities:
Dr. Lust's research concerns the child's acquisition of language, studied from a cross-linguistic perspective. Children acquiring more than 20 languages of the world are studied in the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab. Her research program, which is interdisciplinary, seeks both to identify the universals which characterize child language acquisition across all languages, and to explicate the nature of development of language during the time between birth and early childhood. In the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab, both experimental and naturalistic studies of young children's acquisition of early syntax and semantics are conducted. In addition to research on first language acquisition, research is also now being conducted on the development of multilingualism in young children and its cognitive consequences. Studies of adult second language acquisition are related. |
Selected Publications:
Lust, B. and Foley, C. (eds). 2004. Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings. Blackwell. Oxford, UK.
Lust, B. 2006. Child Language. Acquisition and Growth. Cambridge University Press. UK
For More Please select this link:
http://www.clal.cornell.edu/publications.php |
Administrative Responsibilities:
Professor Lust administers the Cornell Language Acquisition Lab and the Virtual Center for the study of Language Acquisition. |
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The information on this bio page is taken from the CHE Annual Report. |
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