BROOKS, PATRICIA Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biography

Research

Research Interests: Language acquisition, Cognitive development, Psycholinguistics, Thinking and Reasoning.

Research Facilities: Research laboratory is located at the College of Staten Island, CUNY, Building 4S-103. Laboratory is equipped with audio and visual equipment and computers.

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Selected Publications

Brooks, P.J., & Tomasello, M. (1999). How children constrain their argument structure constructions. Language, 75, 720-738.

Brooks, P.J. & Tomasello, M. (1999). Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbs. Developmental Psychology, 35, 29-44.

Brooks, P.J., Tomasello, M., Dodson, K. & Lewis, L. (1999). Young children's overgeneralizations with fixed transitivity verbs. Child Development, 70, 1325-1337.

Brooks, P.J., Jia, X., Braine, M.D.S., Dias, M.G. (1998). A cross-linguistic study of children's comprehension of universal quantifiers: A comparison of Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and English, First Language, 18, 33-79.

Brooks, P.J., Braine, M.D.S. (1996). What do children know about the universal quantifiers "all" and "each"? Cognition, 60, 235-268.