Brooks, Patricia J.

Patricia J. Brooks completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology at New York University, where she studied language development under the supervision of Martin Braine and social-cognitive development under the supervision of Douglas Frye. Her dissertation examined children s collective and distributive interpretations of universal quantifiers and quantifier-spreading errors. Brooks worked as a post-doctoral research fellow with Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie Mellon University, where she began research on spoken word producti...