Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania
Area: Developmental

Contact Information

Email: mshatz@umich.edu
Psychology Office: 2213 East Hall
Psychology Phone: 734-764-5511

Research and Teaching Interests

I study the integration of language, cognitive, and social developments in young children. My current work concerns the early organization of non-object words in the lexicon, representations of proper nouns, and issues in educating dual language learners.

 Representative Publications

• Shatz, M. (2007). On the development of the field of language development. In E. Hoff & M. Shatz (eds), Blackwell handbook of language development (pp.1-15). Oxford: Blackwell.
• Shatz, M. (2007). Revisiting A Toddler's Life for The Toddler Years: Conversational participation as a tool for learning across knowledge domains. In C.A. Brownell & C.B.Kopp (eds.), Socioemotional development in the toddler years (pp.241-257). NY: Guilford.
• Shatz, M., Nguyen, S., Tare, M., & Young, T. Acquiring non-object terms: The case of time words. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010, in press.
• Shatz, M. and Wilkinson, L. (eds.) (2010).  Preparing to educate English language learners.  New York: Guilford Press, in press.