Susan Curtiss

Susan Curtiss is an American linguist. She is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles. Curtiss's main fields of research are psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics. Her 1976 UCLA PhD dissertation centered on the study of the grammatical development of Genie, a famous feral child. Her subsequent work has been on grammatical development in children with SLI; maturational constraints on first-language development ("critical period" effects); hemispheric specialization for language and language acquisition; and the cognitive modularity of grammar. Provided by Wikipedia