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Dr. Matthew Carlson
   
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Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University (2007)

Assistant Professor
   
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I am interested in how humans acquire grammar in first and second languages, and in how that acquisition and development continue through life in response to changing patterns of language use and cognitive functioning. Of special interest are the ways in which language processing and use impinges upon and constrains the form of novel words, that is, how processing influences grammar. My work to date focuses on phonological and word structure (morphological) development in  children and in adult developing bilinguals, and I utilize both experimental and naturalistic (corpus-based) methods. Alongside these interests, I am interested in changes in cognitive functioning associated with the use of multiple systems of communication, specifically bilingualism and co-speech gesture.
   
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Carlson, M. T. & Gerfen, C. (In Press, December, 2011). Spanish diphthongizing stems: productivity, processing, and the shaping of the lexicon. The Mental Lexicon 6(3), 351-373.

Carlson, M. T. & Gerfen, C. (2011). Productivity is the key: morphophonology and the riddle of alternating diphthongs in Spanish. Language 87(3), 510-538.

Carlson, M. T., Bane, M., and Sonderegger, M. (2011). Global properties of the phonological networks in child and child-directed speech. in N. Danis, K. Mesh, & H. Sung (Eds.) Proceedings of the 35th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 97-109). Vol. 1. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Carlson, M. T. (2006). The development of fine-grained phonological knowledge in adult second language learners of Spanish. The Southwest Journal of Linguistics. 25(2), 75-105.

Hall, J. K.; Cheng, A.; and Carlson, M. T. (2006). Reconceptualizing multicompetence as a theory of language knowledge. Applied Linguistics 27(2), 220-240.
   
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Email: mtcarlson@utep.edu

Phone: 1-915-747-7164
Fax: 1-915-747-6553

107 Psychology Building
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso TX, 79968

   
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PSYC 4317 -- Advanced Statistics
   
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