Dr. James Morgan

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James L. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Psychological Sciences and Linguistics at Brown University. He started his academic career as a linguist, focusing on language processing and computation, before transitioning into developmental psychology during graduate school. His research primarily investigates the nature of language input that infants receive, how it affects their language processing abilities, and the cognitive aspects involved in early language acquisition. Morgan has developed a significant body of work exploring spoken word recognition, emphasizing the auditory experiences of infants and their capabilities at recognizing spoken language. He has contributed extensively to understanding how infants process and categorize linguistic elements from the speech they are exposed to, and how such early experiences shape their grammatical knowledge. His scholarly efforts include numerous papers and studies that analyze the intersection of phonetics and language recognition in very young children. Morgan's work has been crucial in advancing our understanding of child language acquisition and has received funding from institutions like the National Institutes of Health. He has also been recognized with several prestigious awards, including the Fogarty Senior International Fellow and the Fulbright Senior Scholar, specifically for his contributions to language development research.

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