About
Jennifer Ganger, PhD, is a Teaching Full Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on language acquisition, developmental psychology, and the interplay between genetics and language development. Key areas include twin studies of passive voice acquisition, vocabulary development milestones, and grammatical principles in Russian unaccusatives.
Her work bridges linguistics, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology, exploring innate linguistic structures and evolutionary influences. Notable publications include studies on genetic factors in language (2005), vocabulary spurt theories (2004), and cross-linguistic syntactic development (2001).
Contact: 3405 Sennott Square, jganger@pitt.edu.
Find Jennifer Ganger elsewhere
Related Searches
You Might Also Like
Kenneth WexlerMassachusetts Institute of Technology · Professor- YYulia RodinaUiT The Arctic University of Norway · Professor
Kamil DeenUniversity of Hawaii at Manoa · Professor- KKarin StromswoldRutgers, The State University of New Jersey · Professor
Ghirmay AlazarUniversity of Pittsburgh · Visiting Assistant Professor
Dana H. BovbjergUniversity of Pittsburgh · Professor