RuCCS has a long and distinguished tradition of bringing together researchers of language across the disciplines of cognitive science to systematically and scientifically investigate fundamental questions about language, such as:
- What structures and patterns underlie linguistic competence and conversational exchanges between speakers and hearers?
- How is language acquired and processed by various populations?
- How is language mentally represented?
- What are cross-linguistic universals, and how do we account for cross-linguistic diversity?
- How are linguistic and cognitive development connected?
- How do the sub-areas of linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonology) interact in linguistic comprehension and production?
- How does language change, and how have linguistic capacities evolved?
- What are the domain-specific and domain-general mechanisms at work in language?
- What are the societal, clinical, educational, and technological applications of language research?
Language researchers at RuCCS are highly regarded at Rutgers and in the broader scholarly community. They actively present and widely publish cutting-edge language research, advise and professionally mentor students within and across departments, organize local and (inter)national workshops and conferences, and regularly advocate for public outreach and engagement related to language.
Affiliated Faculty
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Andrew Egan
I’m interested in intentionality in thought and language and how they’re related. I do work in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology and rational decision theory.
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Arnold Glass
Computer models of syntactic parsing and language comprehension.
Learning & Memory Laboratory | Personal Website
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Bruce Tesar
Computational models of language learning, phonology, Optimality Theory, the role of linguistics within cognitive science.
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Ernest Lepore
Philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.
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Jenny Wang
Jenny Wang investigates the origins of our knowledge, how we master complicated concepts (such as mathematics), and how we learn about the world around us.
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Julien Musolino
Specializes in psycholinguistics and research focuses on language acquisition and language processing.
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Karin Stromswold
Language acquisition and learnability theory; the cognitive and neural bases of language, language acquisition, and language processing; studies of sentence processing using neuroimaging.
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Kasia M. Bieszczad
Neurobiology of learning and memory. Applies epigenetic, molecular, and electrophysiological techniques in animals to understand the basis of associative learning and memory determined by behavior; combines sensory neurophysiology (in the auditory system) with behavioral neuroscience to study how memory and perception intertwine.
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Kristen Syrett
Language acquisition and development, semantics, syntax-semantics interface, pragmatics, prosody, representation and processing
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Mark Baker
Comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic roles, Amerindian and African languages.
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Matthew Stone
Reasoning systems for natural language generation and human-computer interaction; formal models of plans, context and mutual knowledge, and linguistic meaning and interpretation.
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Michael Glanzberg
Philosophy of language, semantics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface. I have focused on such topics as the nature of linguistic meaning, the ways meaning and context of utterance interact, and mechanisms of semantic composition and how they relate to syntax.
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Michael Lewis
Dept. of Pediatrics - Child Health Institute of NJ (CHINJ)
Emotional development and the role of cognition. Cognition, attribution and psychopathology. Face-voice integration in ASD.
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Nuria Sagarra
Psycholinguistics: linguistic and cognitive factors modulating morphosyntactic processing in adult learners (e.g., executive control, cognitive load, language experience), using behavioral (eye tracking, self-paced reading) and electrophysiological (ERPs) techniques.
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Paul Pietroski
What are meanings? How are they related to concepts, grammatical structure, logical structure, and truth?
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Robert Krovetz
Word sense disambiguation and lexical semantics; morphology; multiword expressions; applications of natural language processing to education and information retrieval.
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Sharon Lee Armstrong
Clinical Counseling Psychology
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Simon Charlow
Formal semanticist working on scope and binding, questions and indefiniteness, focus, dynamic semantics, continuations and monads, ellipsis, and their interactions, especially interested in using insights from other disciplines (in particular, theoretical computer science) to address fundamental questions in linguistic theory.
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Stephen Stich
Nature and viability of commonsense (or "folk") psychology, moral cognition & moral reasoning and rationality.
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Viviane Deprez
Theoretical and comparative syntax of natural languages focusing on models of parameterization for deriving grammars from universal principles.
