Lucia Pozzan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for
Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Phone: 215.898.0327
Email: lpozzan@sas.upenn.edu
I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from the CUNY Graduate
Center in September 2011.
Currently, I am a post-doctoral fellow at IRCS working with Lila Gleitman and John Trueswell.
My research investigates the mental representations and processes that underlie the capacity in humans to acquire a first or a second language.
Some of the central questions that guide my research are:
·
What is hard and what is easy for
language learners? To what extent and why?
·
What kind of linguistic cues do
language learners privilege, and why?
·
Are L1 and L2 acquisition mechanisms
and representations fundamentally different, or is there set of core, shared
mechanisms that guide and constrain learners’ grammatical development,
regardless of age of acquisition and the influence of other languages?
·
What is the interplay between
language processing, language acquisition and general cognitive factors, such
as memory and executive functions?