Language
LEAD research on language aims at developing a better understanding of language perception, comprehension and production and how the various units of language (e.g., words and sentences) are extracted from continuous speech streams. This research also studies how a mature cognitive system manages the units used during oral or written production of words and sentences. There are three major orientations of this research – namely, developmental studies involving the emergence of syntax, studies involving the development of the lexicon in children, and, real-time studies of how these linguistic units are managed during oral or written word production in adults.