Brian MacWhinney
Academic
1945 –
Who is Brian MacWhinney?
Brian James MacWhinney is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. MacWhinney is best known for his competition model of language acquisition and for creating the CHILDES and TalkBank corpora. He has also helped to develop a stream of pioneering software programs for creating and running psychological experiments, including PsyScope, an experimental control system for the Macintosh; E-Prime, an experimental control system for the Microsoft Windows platform; and System for Teaching Experimental Psychology, a database of scripts for facilitating and improving psychological and linguistic research.
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- Born
- Aug 22, 1945
New York City - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- Pittsburgh
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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