Virginia valian biography

          Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and is a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center.!

          Virginia Valian is an American psycholinguist, cognitive scientist, and theorist of male-female differences in professional achievement.

        1. Virginia Valian is an American psycholinguist, cognitive scientist, and theorist of male-female differences in professional achievement.
        2. Virginia Valian.
        3. Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and is a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center.
        4. Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College - one of the City University of New York's (CUNY's) senior colleges - and is a.
        5. Virginia Valian is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Hunter College – CUNY, and is a member of the doctoral faculties of Psychology, Linguistics.

          6. Virginia Valian

          Ph.D., Northeastern University

           

          Department of Psychology
          Hunter College, Room 510 TH
          695 Park Avenue
          New York, NY 10065
          Tel: (212) 772-5557
          Fax:(212) 650-3247
          Email: virginia.valian@hunter.cuny.edu

          Link to The Virginia Valian Webpage

          Link to The Language Acquisition Research Center

          Link to Tutorials for Change

          Link to The Gender Equity Project

           

          Current Areas of Research

          The Language Acquisition Research Center (http://littlelinguist.hunter.cuny.edu/) investigates first language acquisition - how very young children acquire their native language.

           We are particularly interested in how children acquire the structure of their language. By looking at two-year-olds who are just beginning to talk, and by comparing their speech with their parents', we can understand what children innately bring to language and what role the speech around them plays.

           We use a variety of methods, from analyzing natural conversat