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Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Texas A&M
University
College Station, TX
77843-4235
Office : 255 Psychology Building
Email : hbortfeld@psych.tamu.edu
Phone : (979) 845-2746
Fax : (979) 845-4727
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Research
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I am interested in how language experience
influences linguistic and conceptual knowledge in infants, young
children, and adult native and non-native speakers. My research can be
characterized as following three distinct lines, all addressing
experiential and contextual influences on language development and use.
One line focuses on how cues in the verbal signal help preverbal
infants pull words out of fluent speech. A second line concerns what
infants and young children know about the relationship between the form
of a sentence and its meaning in the world. A third line examines the
interactive nature of communication and how processing biases both
influence and are influenced by this interaction. Data from research on
all three of these topics highlight the role of experience in guiding
the development of perceptual and conceptual knowledge and the importance
of context in shaping this experience.
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