Ann Bunger
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Anna Papafragou at the University of Delaware and John Trueswell at the University of Pennsylvania.
My research interests include
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•Language acquisition and processing
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•Word learning
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•Event representation
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•Interface of language and cognition
How do children learn to make sense of the world around them, and how do they learn to describe it? In my research, I use experimental methodologies like eyetracking and preferential looking to investigate the mapping between conceptual and linguistic representations of events. I am especially interested in understanding how event construal and description differ across languages and with linguistic and conceptual development. Specific areas of interest include how children represent and label multi-part events like causatives and motion events, what crosslinguistic patterns of linguistic encoding can tell us about event construal, and how early conceptual knowledge might provide a foundation for universal linguistic categories.
CV (updated March 15, 2013)
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