This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career postdoctoral research fellowship examining how children acquire vocabulary related to spatial relations. The research, conducted under the sponsorship of Dr. John Trueswell at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Barbara Landau at Johns Hopkins University, will investigate how typically developing children learn the meanings of spatial terms such as "on" and "in", and why they sometimes use different vocabulary than adults when describing spatial relationships. The goal is to understand children's linguistic processing of spatial vocabulary, which has implications for identifying and supporting children with developmental language disorders or delays. This 2-year fellowship aims to advance scientific knowledge at the intersection of spatial relations and language development.
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