Professor-in-residence, Classics and Indo-European, University of California at Los Angeles, and Victor S Thomas Professor of Linguistics and the Classics, Emeritus, Harvard University
First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development
Southern Europe Italy
Linguistics Romance
Eastern Europe including Russia Romania
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