Elissa Newport

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Elissa_Newport
GPTKB entity
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gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
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gptkb:Rumelhart_Prize
gptkb:William_James_Fellow_Award
gptkbp:birthYear 1949
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gptkbp:doctoralStudent gptkb:Jenny_Saffran
gptkb:David_Poeppel
gptkb:Rachel_Mayberry
gptkbp:field neuroscience
psycholinguistics
language acquisition
gptkbp:gender female
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Elissa Newport
gptkbp:knownFor learning theory
research on language acquisition
critical period hypothesis
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gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Society_of_Experimental_Psychologists
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gptkb:professor
gptkb:psychologist
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gptkb:University_of_Illinois_Urbana-Champaign
gptkb:University_of_Rochester
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