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Letitia R. Naigles

Letitia R. Naigles

Title: Professor, Head of Developmental Division
Departmental Program: Developmental
E-mail: letitia.naigles@uconn.edu
Office Phone: (860) 486-4942


Webpage: http://www.cll.uconn.edu

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: E-mail

Research Interests:

  • Language acquisition
  • Cross-linguistic language development
  • Language and thought
  • Language development in children with autism

Undergraduate courses:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Research Methods in Development
  • Language Development

Graduate courses:

  • Language Acquisition
  • Discourse
  • Language Acquisition in Atypical Populations (co-taught with Inge-Marie Eigsti)

Representative Publications:

  • Naigles, L.R. (2002) Form is easy, meaning is hard: Resolving a paradox in early child language. Cognition 86, 157-199.
  • Göksun, T., Küntay, A., & Naigles, L. (2008) Turkish children use morphosyntax in extending verb meaning. Journal of Child Language 35, 291-323.
  • Howard, A., Mayeux, L. & Naigles, L. (2008) Conversational correlates to children’s acquisition of mental verbs and a theory of mind.  First Language 28, 375-402.
  • Tek, S., Jaffery, G., Fein, D., & Naigles, L.R.  (2008) Do children with autism show a shape bias in word learning?  Autism Research 1, 202-215.
  • Naigles, L.R., Hoff, E. & Vear, D. (2009) Flexibility in early verb use: Evidence from a multiple-n diary study.  Monographs for the Society for Research in Child Development, Vol. 74, No. 2.