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Kenneth Wexler

Professor Emeritus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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School of Science

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Linguistics

Kenneth Wexler is currently serving as a Brain And Cognitive Sciences Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar. Linguistic Inquiry (2023)

Loes KoringEric ReulandNina SangersKenneth Wexler

external argumentsimplicature theorysyntaxchild grammardisjointness effectlinguistics

Altered Engagement of the Speech Motor Network is Associated With Reduced Phonological Working Memory in Autism. NeuroImage Clinical (2022)

Amanda M. O'BrienTyler K. PerrachioneLisa Wisman WeilYoel Sanchez AraujoKelly HalversonAdrianne HarrisIrina OstrovskayaMargaret KjelgaardNone Kenneth WexlerHelen Tager-FlusbergJohn D.E. GabrieliZhenghan Qi

cognitive neuroscienceneurologyneuropsychologyneuroimagingbrain imagingaltered engagementneurolinguisticsspeech motor networkneurophysiologyneurodevelopmental disorderschild neurologyclinical neurologycognitive scienceneuroscienceautism

Copula Omission in Down Syndrome. Language Learning and Development (2022)

Christiana ChristodoulouKenneth Wexler

language learningchild languagelanguage developmentcopula omissionlinguistics

Maximality Trouble? Japanese-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives. Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics (2020)

Masuyo ItoKenneth Wexler

japanese-speaking childrencomparative psychologychild languagepsychologybehavioral sciencesinterpretationlinguisticspsycholinguistics

Persistent Neurobehavioral Markers of Developmental Morphosyntax Errors in Adults. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research (2019)

Neelima WagleyTyler K. PerrachioneIrina OstrovskayaSatrajit S. GhoshPatricia K. SaxlerJohn LymberisKenneth WexlerJohn D. E. GabrieliIoulia Kovelman

neuroimagingneurosciencedevelopmental morphosyntax errors

The Effect of Age on Language in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Comparison of Passives in Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. (2019)

Alexandra PerovicKen Wexler

ageinggeneticsdown syndromelanguagepediatrics

A Program for the Genetics of Grammar. Biolinguistics (2017)

Kenneth N. Wexler

genomicshuman geneticsgeneticssyntaxlanguagegrammar inductiongrammarlinguisticsgenetic programming

Grammar is Differentially Impaired in Subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence From an Investigation of Tense Marking and Morphosyntax. Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (2017)

Nadezhda ModyanovaAlexandra PerovicKenneth N Wexler

tense markingdifferential psychologypsychologyautism spectrum disordersgrammarlinguisticsbehavioral sciences

The Role of Semantic Features in the Acquisition of English Articles by Russian and Korean Speakers. Routledge eBooks (2017)

Tania loninHeejeong KoKenneth Wexler

second language acquisitiongeneral linguisticssemantic featureslanguage learningsyntactic structureenglish optionsyntaxlanguage acquisitionenglish articleslanguagelinguistic theorylanguage variationgrammarlinguistics

Teasing Apart Explanations of a Developmental Delay in Binding: Experimental Evidence From the Comparison of Sli and Williams Syndrome. Language acquisition (2016)

Alexandra PerovicKen Wexler

second language acquisitionforeign language acquisitioncomparative analysislanguage acquisitionexperimental evidencedevelopmental neurobiologylanguage developmentdevelopmental delaylinguistics

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Kenneth Wexler

Professor Emeritus

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Affiliations

School of Science

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Linguistics

Kenneth Wexler is currently serving as a Brain And Cognitive Sciences Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Honors

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Experiences

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Education

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Kenneth Wexler

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Emeritus

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Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

On Realizing External Arguments: A Syntactic and Implicature Theory of the Disjointness Effect for Passives in Adult and Child Grammar. Linguistic Inquiry (2023)

Loes KoringEric ReulandNina SangersKenneth Wexler

external argumentsimplicature theorysyntaxchild grammardisjointness effectlinguistics

Altered Engagement of the Speech Motor Network is Associated With Reduced Phonological Working Memory in Autism. NeuroImage Clinical (2022)

Copula Omission in Down Syndrome. Language Learning and Development (2022)

Christiana ChristodoulouKenneth Wexler

language learningchild languagelanguage developmentcopula omissionlinguistics

Maximality Trouble? Japanese-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives. Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics (2020)

Masuyo ItoKenneth Wexler

japanese-speaking childrencomparative psychologychild languagepsychologybehavioral sciencesinterpretationlinguisticspsycholinguistics

Persistent Neurobehavioral Markers of Developmental Morphosyntax Errors in Adults. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research (2019)

Neelima WagleyTyler K. PerrachioneIrina OstrovskayaSatrajit S. GhoshPatricia K. SaxlerJohn LymberisKenneth WexlerJohn D. E. GabrieliIoulia Kovelman

neuroimagingneurosciencedevelopmental morphosyntax errors

The Effect of Age on Language in Adults With Intellectual Disabilities: A Comparison of Passives in Down Syndrome and Williams Syndrome. (2019)

Alexandra PerovicKen Wexler

ageinggeneticsdown syndromelanguagepediatrics

A Program for the Genetics of Grammar. Biolinguistics (2017)

Kenneth N. Wexler

genomicshuman geneticsgeneticssyntaxlanguagegrammar inductiongrammarlinguisticsgenetic programming

Grammar is Differentially Impaired in Subgroups of Autism Spectrum Disorders: Evidence From an Investigation of Tense Marking and Morphosyntax. Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (2017)

Nadezhda ModyanovaAlexandra PerovicKenneth N Wexler

tense markingdifferential psychologypsychologyautism spectrum disordersgrammarlinguisticsbehavioral sciences

The Role of Semantic Features in the Acquisition of English Articles by Russian and Korean Speakers. Routledge eBooks (2017)

Tania loninHeejeong KoKenneth Wexler

Teasing Apart Explanations of a Developmental Delay in Binding: Experimental Evidence From the Comparison of Sli and Williams Syndrome. Language acquisition (2016)

Alexandra PerovicKen Wexler

second language acquisitionforeign language acquisitioncomparative analysislanguage acquisitionexperimental evidencedevelopmental neurobiologylanguage developmentdevelopmental delaylinguistics

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