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Toby MintzAssociate Professor of Psychology and LinguisticsContact Information E-mail: tmintz@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-2253 Office: SGM 613 LINKS Curriculum Vitae Personal Website USC Language Development Lab |
Education
- Ph.D. Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics, University of Rochester, 1/1996
Postdoctoral Training
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 09/1996-08/1998
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor Mintz's research interests center around the congnitive mechanisms underlying language aquisition. In a current project, he is finding that infants have started to form rudimentary representations of the grammatical units of their language, such as verb inflections, by 15 months of age. He also uses computational modeling techniques, methods from computer science, and experiments with adults as tools in testing and forming theories of language development in children.
Research Keywords
cognitive mechanisms, language accquisition, learning, linguistics, infants, children
Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
- USC Language Development Lab,http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~langdev/
Publications
Book
- Byrd, D. M., Mintz, T. H. (2009). Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind. Discovering Speech, Words, and Mind/Wiley-Blackwell Publishing.
Book Chapter
- Mintz, T. H. (2006). Finding the verbs: distributional cues to categories available to young learners. (Vol. 31-63). New York: Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs/Oxfor University Press.
- Mintz, T. H. (2006). Frequent frames: Simple co-occurrence constructions and their links to linguistic structure. (Vol. 59-82). Stanford: Constructions in Acquisition/CSLI.
Conference Proceeding
- Wang, H., Mintz, T. H. (2008). A Dynamic Learning Model for Categorizing Words Using Frames. In Proceedings of the 32nd annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, H. Chan, E. Kapia, & H. Jacob (Ed.), pp. 552-536. Somerville, MA. Cascadilla Press.
Encyclopedia Article
- Mintz, T. H. (2008). Language Development. (New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, L. R. Squire, Ed.). 313-319. Oxford: Academic Press.
Journal Article
- Chemla, E., Mintz, T. H., Bernal, S., Christophe, A. (2009). Categorizing words using frequent frames: What cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies. Developmental Science. Vol. 12 (3), pp. 396-406.
- Chemla, E., Mintz, T. H., Bernal, S., Christophe, A. (2009). Categorizing words using 'frequent frames': what cross-linguistic analyses reveal about distributional acquisition strategies. Developmental Science. Vol. 12 (3), pp. 396-406.
- Mintz, T. H. (2005). Linguistic and conceptual influences on adjective acquisition in 24- and 36-month-olds. Developmental Psychology/American Psychological Association. Vol. 41, pp. pp. 17-29.
- Curtin, S., Mintz, T. H., Christiansen, M. H. (2005). Stress changes the representational landscape: Evidence from word segmentation. Cognition/Elsevier. Vol. 96, pp. pp. 233-262.
- Arnoff, J., Giralt, N., Mintz, T. H. (2005). Stochastic Approaches to Morphology Acquisition. Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium/Cascadilla Press. pp. p. 110-121.
- Steenberge, L., Mintz, T. H. (2005). A toy can’t be stoof if it’s not really a toy: Object knowledge and adjective acquisition. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development/Cascadilla Press. pp. p. 574-581.
