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James L. Morgan is a Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and Linguistics at Brown University. He holds dual appointments in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences and the Linguistics Program. His research focuses on early language development, particularly spoken word recognition in infants and young children, and how auditory/visual speech input interacts with infants' perceptual capacities to facilitate language acquisition.
Educated at Washington University (AB 1974), UC San Diego (MA Linguistics 1976, MA Psychology 1979), and UIUC (PhD Developmental Psychology 1983), Morgan previously taught at the University of Minnesota and held visiting positions at CNRS-EHESS (Paris) and the University of Potsdam. His work is funded by NIH/NICHD grants and recognized by Fulbright and Fogarty fellowships.
Research highlights include discovering infants' sensitivity to prosodic patterns in speech segmentation, demonstrating how lexical categories influence phonetic learning, and analyzing infant-directed speech properties. He directs the Metcalf Infant Research Lab and serves on editorial boards for Infancy and Language Learning and Development. Teaching focuses on language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and cognitive development.
Recent studies explore how infants categorize grammatical vs. lexical words using acoustic correlates, the role of visual prosody in speech perception, and developmental trajectories of phonetic detail processing. Collaborators include Sheila Blumstein, Bertram Malle, and David Sobel in interdisciplinary projects linking linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience.
