{"id":447,"date":"2024-08-13T23:49:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/?page_id=447"},"modified":"2024-08-13T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T06:50:07","slug":"toby-mintz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/ccls\/toby-mintz\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--signup-form dark\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--signup-form\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"text-image-container\">\n  <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n          Toby Mintz, Ph.D.\n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p><strong>Professor of Psychology and Linguistics<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Department of Linguistics<\/em><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:tmintz@usc.edu\">tmintz@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Mintz\u2019s 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. 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