Jennifer Ganger, PhD

Language Acquisition

    Education & Training

  • PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent Publications

Ganger, J., Dunn, S., & Gordon, P.  (2005). Genes take over when the input fails: A twin study of the passive. Boston University Conference on Language Development Online Proceedings Supplement www.bu.edu/bucld/proceedings/supplement/vol29/

Ganger, J. & Brent, M. (2004) Re-examining the vocabulary spurt. Developmental Psychology, 4, 621-632.

Babyonyshev, M., Ganger, J.B., Pesetsky, D., & Wexler, K. (2001). The maturation of grammatical principles: Evidence from Russian unaccusatives. Linguistic Inquiry, pp. 1-44.

Jennifer Ganger & Karin Stromswold. (1998). Innateness, evolution, and genetics of language. Human Biology, 70, 199-213.