Elaine S. Andersen
Expert in children’s language acquisition, parent/child linguistic interaction and the linguistic impairment in normal and atypical aging
Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Neuroscience
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
Expertise
- sociolinguistic skills of children
- childhood language acquisition
- parent/ child linguistic interaction
- developmental psycholinguistics
- linguistic and cognitive development in normal and atypical (e.g., blind) children
- linguistic and cognitive impairments in normal and atypical (e.g., Alzheimer’s disease) aging
- neurolinguistics
- relationship between language and nonlinguistic cognition
Additional Information
- Author of Speaking with Style: The Sociolinguistic Skills of Children (1990)
- Co-editor of Developing Communicative Competence in Second Language (1990)
- Senior Research Associate, Gerontology Research Institute, USC Andrus Gerontology Center
