MIC Related Research | Dr. Maria Polinsky

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Language Science Laboratory at Harvard University.  She has  expertise in theoretical syntax, where her work spans Austronesian languages, languages of the Caucasus, and a number of other lesser studied languages. She has done extensive fieldwork, and has worked on bringing  the research questions of lab-based psycholinguistics to the domain of understudied languages. She also has a long-standing interest in research on Heritage Languages, and she directs annual Heritage Language Institutes organized by the National Heritage Language Research Center at UCLA.