LSA 2009

Sabine Stoll is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. She received her Ph.D. in 2001 from UC Berkeley. Since 2002 she has been working at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, first as a Postdoctoral Fellow and then as a Senior Researcher. Currently she is a Dilthey Fellow (Volkswagen Foundation), studying crosslinguistic language acquisition. She works both with experiments and longitudinal corpora. Her major current focus is on the acquisition of an endangered Sino-Tibetan language, Chintang, where she studies child-directed speech, code-mixing, and the acquisition of verbs and nouns and of tense and aspect.