Profile of Susan Goldin-Meadow
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Susan Goldin-Meadow wants to know where language comes from.Her deep fascination with language led her to pursue a career in science."If you aren't exposed to a language, would you reinvent one?That really was my question to start," says Goldin-Meadow.Pursuing this question led Goldin-Meadow to a long and distinguished career encompassing linguistics, child development, and cognition.She has made major contributions to the understanding of nonverbal communication-specifically gestures-and of how language develops in early childhood.In her Inaugural Article (IA), Goldin-Meadow brings two strands of her research together in collaboration with behavioral and computational scientists ( 1 ).Goldin-Meadow, a professor of psychology at the
Author: Sandeep Ravindran
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4404791528