Peter W. Jusczyk
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I was a student in Dr. Jusczyk's class at Johns Hopkins a few years ago (fall of '98 I believe). He was a wonderful professor and taught one of the most challenging psychology courses, and he used his book (Discovery of Spoken Language) for the class. After that class, I remember seeing him on CNN discussing infants and language development, and I was just so impressed especially after having taken his class. Plus, he was so easy to approach and such a nice person. He wrote me a recommedation for a graduate program my senior year. I was just sitting here crying when I found out that he died 2 years ago. I was just shocked. Tonight I just decided to search his name online and see if he had done any more CNN specials because every now and then I bring up his name in my graduate program when the issue of language development comes up. I always feel the urge to ask "Have you seen or read Peter Jusczyk's work?" Tonight I read that he had died unexpectedly in August of 2001.
I wrote Dr. Jusczyk an email once that said that I hope I find a career that I love as much as he loved his. You could just see how much he truly loved his work. My condolences to all of his loved ones.
Editorial Review:
The Discovery of Spoken Language marks one of the first efforts to integrate the field of infant speech perception research into the general study of language acquisition. It fills in a key part of the acquisition story by providing an extensive review of research on the acquisition of language during the first year of life, focusing primarily on how normally developing infants learn the organization of native language sound patterns.
Peter Jusczyk examines the initial capacities that infants possess for discriminating and categorizing speech sounds and how these capacities evolve as infants gain experience with native language input. Jusczyk also looks at how infants' growing knowledge of native language sound patterns may facilitate the acquisition of other aspects of language organization and discusses the relationship between the learner's developing capacities for perceiving and producing speech.
