Summary
Under the sponsorship of Dr. Roger Levy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist using computational models to understand children's language processing. It is important for children to understand spoken language and learn how to read. Understanding language involves different skills like recognizing a word, putting words together into a sentence, and understanding the overall meaning. Most reading research has looked at two things: how children recognize words and how they understand the big picture. We don't know as much
