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Rachel Pulverman-Silverman is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Delaware State University. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell University (2000), an M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Delaware (2002), and a Ph.D. in Linguistics with a Psycholinguistics specialization from the University of Delaware (2005), followed by postdoctoral training in Developmental Psychology at the University of Michigan (2007).
Her research focuses on language and cognitive development in infants and young children, particularly exploring how cognitive, linguistic, social, and cultural factors influence early word learning. She also investigates adult second language acquisition, especially motion event descriptions across languages. Key areas of expertise include experimental design for infant research and cross-linguistic developmental comparisons.
Notable contributions include studies on infants' attention to motion components (manner/path) as precursors to verb learning, bilingual cognitive development differences between English/Mandarin and English/Chinese learners, and methodological advancements in infant research. Her work spans developmental, cognitive, and psycholinguistic domains with a strong emphasis on cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparisons.
Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches to understanding foundational cognitive processes underlying language acquisition, with a focus on how preverbal infants conceptualize dynamic events and how these conceptualizations shape later language development.
