Katharine Graf-Estes

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Position Title
Department of Psychology
language learning, child development

Center for Mind and Brain
Bio

Katherine Graf-Estes is an associate professor of psychology and studies early learning in infancy with a focus on how the statistical regularities of speech may lead to language learning. In her Language Learning Laboratory at the Center for Mind & Brain, Graf-Estes studies how phoneme distinctions, sound combinations, cues to word boundaries, and other elements of speech lead to language learning.