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Dan I. Slobin | |
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| Born | May 7, 1939 (age 85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Harvard University |
| Known for | Studies of crosslinguistic language acquisition |
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| Fields | Linguistics, Psychology |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral students | Leonard Talmy Brian MacWhinney |
Dan Isaac Slobin (born May 7, 1939) is a professor emeritus of psychology and linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Slobin has made major contributions to the study of children's language acquisition, and his work has demonstrated the importance of cross-linguistic comparison for the study of language acquisition and psycholinguistics in general.
Slobin received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1960 and a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard University in 1964. In addition to working at the University of California, Berkeley, Slobin has served as a visiting professor at several universities around the world, including Boğaziçi University, Tel-Aviv University, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Stanford University.