Virginia Valian

Research Interests

Our current research:

• uses experimental methods and corpus analysis to investigate two-year-olds’ grammatical representations and the extent to which children are dependent on adult input;
• studies the relation between bilingualism and higher cognitive processes that range from executive functions to humor appreciation;
• analyzes the attributions of different types of traits to men and women; and
• evaluates efforts to increase the advancement of women in the professions.