| Abstract: | Cites Fernanda Ferreira for the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Awards for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. Ferreira is recognized for her contributions to primary problems of psycholinguistics, including language comprehension, language production, and language acquisition, She has championed the modular approach to syntax processing, pioneered in the study of prosody, grappled with the problem of how syntactic proficiency is jointly determined by informal experience and formal instruction, and developed a new methodology, the "auditory moving window." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
