Born | July 3, 1945 |
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Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
Known for | Generative grammar, Principles and Parameters of language development, structure building model of child language acquisition |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Generative grammar, syntax, child language acquisition |
Institutions | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of East Anglia, University College of North Wales, University of Essex |
Doctoral advisor | Pieter Seuren: a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen |
Influences | Noam Chomsky |