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Jesse Snedeker is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna. His research laboratory explores multiple facets of language development, comprehension, production, and representation across diverse populations including typically developing children, adults, and special populations such as children with cochlear implants, international adoptees, and high-functioning autistic individuals.
Dr. Snedeker's research interests focus on how language conveys meaning, with particular emphasis on syntactic priming in children, language development in internationally adopted children, and the interface between language and communication. His methodological approach is diverse, incorporating eye-tracking during spoken language comprehension, corpus analysis, parent-child interaction studies, and training studies to explore word and grammar learning processes. He aims for methodological simplicity and theoretical clarity in his research.
His recent work challenges traditional hypotheses in language emergence, particularly the word-order hypothesis and agent-first hypothesis, through studies of emerging sign languages including ABSL, KQSL, and Nicaraguan Sign Language. His research demonstrates that concepts like agent and patient guide language emergence, though not in the ways previously hypothesized.
Dr. Snedeker actively presents his research, with recent presentations including a Departmental Colloquium at CEU in July 2023 titled "Who did what to whom? Marking event participants in Emerging Languages." His work spans multiple subfields within linguistics and cognitive science, contributing significantly to our understanding of language acquisition, typology, and the cognitive foundations of language.
