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Education
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Ph.D. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, University of Rochester, 1/1996
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Mintz's research interests center around the congnitive mechanisms underlying language aquisition. In a current project, he is finding that infants have started to form rudimentary representations of the grammatical units of their language, such as verb inflections, by 15 months of age. He also uses computational modeling techniques, methods from computer science, and experiments with adults as tools in testing and forming theories of language development in children.
Research Keywords
cognitive mechanisms, language accquisition, learning, linguistics, infants, children
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
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USC Language Development Lab,http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~langdev/
Publications
Book Chapter
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Mintz, T. H.
(2007).
Language Development. In L. R. Squire (Ed.), New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. Elsevier.
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Mintz, T. H.
(2006).
Finding the verbs: distributional cues to categories available to young learners. (Vol. 31-63). New York: Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs/Oxfor University Press.
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Mintz, T. H.
(2006).
Frequent frames: Simple co-occurrence constructions and their links to linguistic structure. (Vol. 59-82). Stanford: Constructions in Acquisition/CSLI.
Journal Article
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Chemla, E., Mintz, T. H., Bernal, S., Christophe, A.
(2007).
Categorizing words using frequent frames: What cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies. Developmental Science.
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Mintz, T. H.
(2005).
Linguistic and conceptual influences on adjective acquisition in 24- and 36-month-olds. Developmental Psychology/American Psychological Association.
Vol. 41, pp. pp. 17-29.
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Curtin, S., Mintz, T. H., Christiansen, M. H.
(2005).
Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition/Elsevier.
Vol. 96, pp. pp. 233-262.
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Arnoff, J., Giralt, N., Mintz, T. H.
(2005).
Stochastic Approaches to Morphology Acquisition. Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium/Cascadilla Press. pp. p. 110-121.
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Steenberge, L., Mintz, T. H.
(2005).
A toy can’t be stoof if it’s not really a toy: Object knowledge and adjective acquisition. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development/Cascadilla Press. pp. p. 574-581.
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