Jeffrey Lidz
Department of Linguistics

Jeffrey Lidz, (Ph.D. Delaware), Assistant Professor of Linguisitics. His research concerns the syntax and semantics of reflexive constructions, the place of morphology in grammar, the acquisition of scope phenomena, and the role of syntax in lexical acquisition. He was twice awarded a National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Health at the University of Pennsylvania (1997-99, 1999-2000) and was a Visiting Research Associate at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives and Psycholinguistique (LSCP) at the CNRS. Currently he is engaged (together with NU linguist Janet Pierrhumbert and psychologist Sandra Waxman) in a collaborative project with Emmanuel Dupoux and Anne Cristophe of the LSCP exploring the acquisition of grammatical categories in French and English. He received a FIG grant to do preliminary research for this project and will be spending Winter and Spring 2004 (supported by a CNRS "poste rouge" ) working in the Paris lab, doing experimetns in bootstrapping of the syntactic sysem by infants .

jlidz@northwestern.edu