Archive: Newport

  • Dissertation

    Madeline Marcelle Title: Structural Language Connectivity in Typical Development and After Early Brain Injury Advisors: Elissa Newport, Ph.D. and William Gaillard, MD

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  • Dissertation

    Jessica Kotfila Title: The Acquisition of Word Order: From Strings to Sentences Advisor: Elissa Newport, Ph.D.

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  • Publication

    Drs. Newport, Greenwald, Landau, and Gaillard publication in PNAS: After Stroke in an Infant’s Brain, Right Side of Brain Compensates for Loss of Language in Left Side.

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  • Dissertation

    Kelly Martin Language System Plasticity in Healthy Development and after Perinatal Stroke Advisors: Elissa Newport, PhD and Peter Turkeltaub MD, PhD

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  • Publication

    Dr. Alexander Dromerick and colleagues publish Critical Period After Stroke Study (CPASS) results in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Newport speaks to NPR on behalf of Dr. Dromer

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  • Dissertation

    Alix Fetch, Linguistics Title: Does Learnability Predict Syntactic Universals? An Investigation Using Artificial Languages Advisor: Elissa Newport, Ph.D.

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  • Award

    Dr. Elissa Newport receives award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution from the American Psychological Association, presented at the APA conference, August 2020.

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  • Grant

    Dr. Elissa Newport awarded 5 year, $3 million NIH grant to study language and cognitive processing after perinatal stroke

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  • Dissertation

    Heidi Getz, Linguistics Title: Sentence first, arguments after: Mechanisms of morphosyntax acquisition Advisor: Elissa Newport, Ph.D.

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  • Award

    Dr. Elissa Newport receives the Norman A. Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Experimental Psychology. The Norman Anderson award was presented at the 2018 conference of the Society of Ex

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