Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood Learning from Multiple Exemplars

Dr. Jane B. Childers (Ph.D. 1998, University of Texas at Austin), is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology, and Director of the Linguistics Program, at Trinity University, San Antonio.  Her main focus of research examines children’s early verb learning, with an emphasis on how the comparison of events may be useful for deducing verb meaning.  Her research has been funded by the Spencer Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and she serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cognition and Development and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology .