Ganger, Jennifer
Part-time Faculty, Department of Psychology
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Developmental Program
Contact
3405 Sennott Square
412-624-3064
Fax: 412-624-4428
jganger@pitt.edu
Research Interests: Language acquisition
Accepting Graduate Students: No
Selected Publications
- Jennifer Ganger, Steven Pinker, Sonia Chawla, & Allison Baker. (Under revision to resubmit). The Heritability of Early Milestones of Vocabulary and Grammar: A Twin Study.
- Jennifer Ganger & Michael Brent. (2001). Re-examining the vocabulary spurt and its implications: Is there really a sudden change in cognitive development? Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language DevelopmentL, pp. 296-306.
- Babyonyshev, M., Ganger, J.B., Pesetsky, D., & Wexler, K. (2001). The maturation of grammatical principles: Evidence from Russian unaccusatives. Linguistic Inquiry, pp. 1-44.
- Jennifer Ganger & Karin Stromswold. (1998). Innateness, evolution, and genetics of language. Human Biology, 70, 199-213.