Brian MacWhinney
Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. MacWhinney is best known for his competition model of language acquisition and for creating the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) and TalkBank corpora. He has also helped to develop a stream of pioneering software programs for creating and running psychological experiments, including PsyScope, an experimental control system for the Macintosh; E-Prime, an experimental control system for the Microsoft Windows platform; and System for Teaching Experimental Psychology (STEP), a database of scripts for facilitating and improving psychological and linguistic research.
Brian MacWhinney | |
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| Born | August 22, 1945 New York, New York, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Competition model CHILDES database Connectionist modeling |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Language acquisition Psychology Linguistics |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University University of Denver |
| Doctoral advisor | Susan Ervin-Tripp Dan Slobin |