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Faculty
-- Cognitive Program Area
Laurie
Feldman, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Office: Social Sciences 237
Phone: (518) 442-4842
Fax: (518) 442-4867
EMail: lf503@albany.edu
Research Lab: Language Laboratory
Curriculum
Vitae (pdf format) |
Photo by Harold Shapiro |
Research Areas of Interest
I am interested in how language users store and understand complex words and
how they create new ones. Morphemes are the meaningful units that combine to
form complex words. For example, four morphemes comprise the word MIS+MANAG(E)
+ABLE+NESS and although readers may not have encountered the word before they
can construct a meaning for it. To explore how a reader comes to appreciate
the morphological structure of words, I often contrast the effect of a shared
morpheme with effects due to similarity of form or of meaning in the absence
of shared morphology.
Much of my work is conducted abroad with support from NICHD to Haskins
Laboratories. It spans native language processing of several languages
with very
different structures
(viz., HEBREW, SERBIAN, CHINESE as well as ENGLISH). I also examine the mastery
of past tense inflectional morphology among readers with non native proficiency
in English.
This work contributes to the current debate in cognitive science concerning the
cognitive abilities that underlie linguistic processing and whether they are
general or specific to language. Specific areas of interest follow. |
 Morphology
and the Internal Structure of Words
Word
Recognition in CHINESE HEBREW, SERBIAN and ENGLISH
Morphological
Processing in English as a Second Language
Comparisons
of Language Comprehension by Ear and by Eye
Non-Native
Accent Influences on Word Recognition
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Education
1980 Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, University of
Connecticut
1978 M.A., Psychology, University of Connecticut
1973 B.A., Psychology and French, Wellesley
College
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