EDUCATION
 

HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
M. D., June 1991

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Ph. D. in Cognitive Science, September 1990
Thesis: Learnability & the acquisition of auxiliaries (Advisor: Steven Pinker)

HARVARD COLLEGE, A.B., June 1983
Magna cum Laude with Highest Honors in Psychology and Social Relations
Thesis: The nature of categories in children's early language
 

CURRENT POSITION

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology & Center for Cognitive
Science, Rutgers University

Member of the Graduate Faculty of Psychology & Linguistics, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick
 

AWARDS & HONORS
 

National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1999-2003

Johnson & Johnson Discovery Award, 1994-1998

John Merck Scholar in the Biology of Developmental Disabilities in
Children, 1993-1996

MacArthur Foundation M.D./Ph.D. Fellow in Psychology & Medicine, 1985-1992

Fairchild Graduate Fellow in Computational Approaches to Speech and
Hearing, 1989-1990

National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in Psychology, 1986-1989

U. S. President's Committee on Mental Retardation Scholar, 1984-1985

Massachusetts State Scholarship in Medicine, 1983-1985

Harvard A.B, Magna cum Laude with Highest Honors in Psychology and Social Relations, 1983

Phi Beta Kappa, 1983

National Merit Scholar, 1979-1983

John Harvard Scholar, 1979-1983
 
 

GRANTS

Acquiring and Processing Passive Sentences, National Science Foundation
REU Award, Principle Investigator, 2001-2002

The Relationship between Neural Development and Linguistic Development, Busch
Biomedical Grant, Principle Investigator, 2001-2003

Acquisition of Turkish:  Implications for Theories of Language Acquisition,
National Institute of Health (HD37818), Principle Investigator, 2000-2002

Acquisition of Word Order and Particle Order Restrictions, National Science
Foundation (BCS-0002010), Principle Investigator, 2000-2001.

On-line Language Processing by Normal and Language-Impaired Children,
National Science Foundation REU Award (BCS-0042561),
Principle Investigator, 2000-2001.

Relationship Among Phonology, Syntax and the Lexicon, National Science
Foundation CAREER Award (BCS-9875168), Principle Investigator, 1999-2003

A Twin Study of Phonological Development. Rutgers Undergraduate
Research Fellows Program (RU Fellow: V. Chen), Principle Investigator,
1999-2000

Why do Children Say 'Eated' for 'Ate': The Role of Complexity in
Overregularization. Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellows Program
(RU Fellow: A. Connolly), Principle Investigator, 1999-2000.

Using Functional Neuroimaging to Investigate the Neural Bases of
Language, Johnson & Johnson Foundation, Principle Investigator,
1994-1998.

The Cognitive and Neural Bases of Specific Language Impairment, John
Merck Foundation, Principle Investigator, 1993-1996.
 

SELECTED PAPERS

Stromswold, K. 1995. The acquisition of subject and object
wh-questions. Language Acquisition, 4, 5-48.

Stromswold, K. 1995. The cognitive and neural bases of language
acquisition. M. Gazzaniga (ed.), The cognitive neurosciences, pp
855-870. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stromswold, K., & Snyder, W. 1995. Acquisition of datives,
particles, and related constructions: Evidence for a parametric
account. D. MacLaughlin & S. McEwen (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Volume 2,
621-628. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Stromswold, K. 1996. Analyzing children's spontaneous speech.
D. McDaniel, C. McKee, and H. Cairns, eds. Methods for assessing
children's syntax, pp. 23-53. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stromswold, K., Caplan, D., Alpert, N., & Rausch, S. 1996.
Localization of syntactic comprehension by Positron Emission
Tomography. Brain & Language, 52, 452-473.

Stromswold, K. 1997. Specific language impairments. T. Feinberg and
M. Farah, eds., Behavioral neurology and neuropsychology, pp. 755-772.
New York: McGraw Hill.

Snyder, W., & Stromswold, K. 1997. The structure and acquisition of
English dative constructions. Linguistic Inquiry 28, 281-317.

Ganger, J. & Stromswold, K. 1998. The innateness, evolution and
genetics of language. Human Biology 70, 199-213.

Stromswold, K. 1998. Genetics of spoken language disorders. Human
Biology 70, 297-324.

Batman-Ratyosyan, N. & Stromswold, K. 1999. What Turkish acquisition
tells us about underlying word order and scrambling. Proceedings of
the 23th Annual University of Pennsylvania Linguistics Conference.

Stromswold, K. 2000. The cognitive neuroscience of language
acquisition. M. Gazzaniga (ed.), The cognitive neurosciences, second
edition. pp 909-932. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Stromswold, K. & Zimmermann, K. 1999. The acquisition of nein and
nicht and the VP-internal subject stage in German. Language
Acquisition, 8, 101-127.

Stromswold, K. 2001. The heritability of language: A review
and metaanalysis of twin, adoption and linkage studies. Language

Stromswold, K. to appear. The acquisition of inversion and
negation in English. Linguistic Inquiry.

Stromswold, K. to appear. Formal categories in language: Evidence
from regularization errors in acquisition. Language and Cognitive
Processes.