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About Carolyn Quam

Dr. Carolyn Quam is the director of the Child Language Learning Center (CLLC) and an Associate Professor in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department at Portland State University. She earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford University in 2004 and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She then conducted postdoctoral research at UC San Diego and the University of Arizona. She joined the faculty of PSU in 2016. Her research employs a variety of methods (including eye-tracking, infant habituation, and category-learning/cue-weighting) with infants, preschoolers, and adults. These investigations are all in the service of addressing the central questions of how children learn the sound structure of language—or multiple languages—how they apply their knowledge of sounds when learning words, and how these might differ across age and between typically developing children and children with language-based learning disabilities.

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Present Assistant Professor, Portland State University ‐ Speech and Hearing Sciences
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  • Speech and Language Development

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2010 PhD, University of Pennsylvania ‐ Psychology
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