Toby Mintz, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Department of Linguistics
Email: tmintz@usc.edu
Professor Mintz’s research interests center around the cognitive mechanisms underlying language acquisition. Ongoing and completed projects investigate the mechanisms by which infants detect words in fluent speech, how infants and very young children acquire fundamental syntactic knowledge about the language they are learning, and how toddlers learn the meanings of novel words. He also uses computational modeling techniques, methods from computer science, and experiments with adults as tools in testing and forming theories of language development in children.
