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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Personal Directory Information
Name:	Lyn  Frazier
Institution:	University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Email:	click here to access email
Homepage:	http://people.umass.edu/lyn/
State and/or Country:	MA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Psycholinguistics Semantics Language Acquisition
Specialty:	psycholinguistics
Selected Publications:
Announced on LINGUIST :	Construal
Dissertation Director * of:	The Syntax and Processing of Scrambling Constructions in Russian (Irina Sekerina, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Two Types of Definites in Natural Language (Florian Schwarz, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Prosody and LF Interpretation: Processing Japanese wh-questions (Masako Hirotani, Author)
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