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Angela Carpenter
Angela Carpenter
Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
B.A., Wellesley College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst
How do humans learn language? This question first led me to study linguistics and still fascinates me today. Thus, much of my research has focused on the phonological acquisition of language, both child language and adult second language acquisition. I have worked on the acquisition of stressed syllables and function words by children learning their first language, and with adults I have studied factors that affect acquisition of a second language. Currently in my lab I am continuing my investigation into the acquisition of phonological stress by adults learning an artificial grammar. I'm also continuing to explore children’s acquisition of stress in multisyllabic monomorphemic words. Another interest is in the phonology of creoles. I am exploring questions of dialect loss and dialect shift among native speakers of Jamaican Creole who live in the United States and other English-speaking countries.
Angela Carpenter’s faculty web page.
Recent Research Assistants
Recent Research Assistants
Ann Zhao, Class of 2024
Ann is a Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences major at Wellesley College with a particular interest in phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics. Her other interests include historical linguistics and child language acquisition. She has accidentally written three linguistics final papers about Chinese despite her kindergarten-level Chinese literacy. In her free time, she edits and writes for The Wellesley News, reads way too many books for her own good, and writes young adult novels.
Grete Feldman, Class of 2023
Grete Feldman is a Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and English double major at Wellesley College. She is interested in phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, especially pertaining to second language acquisition and the influence of attitudes on multilingual education. Outside of the lab, she enjoys learning other languages and hopes to become a linguistics professor in the future.
Gabriella Garcia, Class of 2022
Gabriella is a Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences and Anthropology double major from Arizona. While she loves all-things linguistic, she is particularly interested in phonology, language acquisition, and learning about the relationship between language and culture, especially as it intersects with multilingualism, language policy, and minority languages. Outside of the lab, you can probably find her reading a good book, studying Romansh, or working on her conlang (which she started in LING 315!).
Interested in working as a research assistant in our lab?
Contact Angela Carpenter at acarpent@wellesley.edu
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