Brian MacWhinney

Brian MacWhinney
Born (1945-08-22) August 22, 1945 (age 79)
New York, New York, United States
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forCompetition model
CHILDES database
Connectionist modeling
Scientific career
FieldsLanguage acquisition
Psychology
Linguistics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
University of Denver
Doctoral advisorSusan Ervin-Tripp
Dan Slobin

Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects.[1] MacWhinney is best known for his competition model of language acquisition and for creating the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) and TalkBank corpora.[2] He has also helped to develop a stream of pioneering software programs for creating and running psychological experiments, including PsyScope, an experimental control system for the Macintosh;[3] E-Prime, an experimental control system for the Microsoft Windows platform;[4] and System for Teaching Experimental Psychology (STEP), a database of scripts for facilitating and improving psychological and linguistic research.[5]

  1. ^ "Google Scholar search: Peer-Reviewed Papers by Brian MacWhinney". Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  2. ^ MacWhinney, Brian (2007). "The TalkBank Project". In Beal, J.; Moisl, K. (eds.). Creating and Digitizing Language Corpora: Synchronic Databases, Vol.1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave-Macmillan. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  3. ^ "PsyScope Manual" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  4. ^ "E-Prime". Retrieved 1 May 2009.
  5. ^ MacWhinney, Brian; James St. James; Chris Schunn; Ping Li; Walter Schneider (2001). "STEP—A System for Teaching Experimental Psychology using E-Prime". Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers. 33 (2): 287–296. doi:10.3758/bf03195379. PMID 11452970.