Karen Miller

Biography:

Karen Miller is an Associate Professor of Spanish Linguistics at Penn State University. She received a Ph.D. in linguistics and cognitive science from Michigan State University in 2007. Prior to coming to Penn State, she held a faculty position at Calvin College.

Her field of research centers on first language acquisition in English and Spanish-speaking children and she has been working with children in Chile, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. She is especially interested in how linguistic variation is acquired by children and the extent to which variable input affects the acquisition of grammatical morphology. She also studies children’s acquisition of semantics and pragmatics. Other areas of research in which she is interested include bilingualism in children and the effect of variation on language processing in children and adults. Her work on language acquisition and variation is currently being funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information please visit: https://sites.psu.edu/cldl/