Elizabeth Johnson
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Mailing Address:
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Area of Research
Dr. Johnson's Child Language and Speech Studies Lab is located on the fourth floor of UTM's Communication, Culture and Technology Building. Her main line of research is focused on understanding how children acquire their native language(s). A sampling of topics recently under study in her lab include the development of spoken word recognition, how infants learn to cope with connected speech processes and segment words from speech, audio-visual speech perception, infant multilingualism, accent and dialect perception, the development of word-learning heuristics, experiential effects on voice recognition, the link between early perception and production, and the acquisition of language-specific prosody. For a more detailed and up-to-date description of Dr. Johnson's research, please see her lab page.
Profile
Dr. Johnson received her BA from the University of Rochester, where she majored in Brain & Cognitive Sciences and completed a Take Five program in Developmental Biology & Evolution. She then earned her MA in Psychology and her PhD in Psychological & Brain Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University. During her final year of study at The Johns Hopkins University, she spent a semester visiting the Speech Group at MIT. After completing her Ph.D, Dr. Johnson accepted a post doc position at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dr. Johnson is now a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, and the Director of the UTM Child Language and Speech Studies Lab (C.L.A.S.S. Lab). In 2013, Dr. Johnson was first awarded a Canada Research Chair in Spoken Language Acquisition. This award was renewed in 2018. Her primary graduate appointment is in Psychology, but she is also cross-appointed to the graduate Department of Linguistics.
Publications
https://www.classlab.psycholinguistics.ca/publications
Related Links:
Child Language and Speech Studies
Centre for Biological Communication Systems
Infant and Child Studies Centre
Research
Speech perception, cognitive development, language acquisition, developmental psycholinguistics
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Education:
B.A. (Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester)
M.A. (Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University)
Ph.D. (Psychological and Brain Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University)