Maya Hickmann
Maya Hickmann is Research Director in the Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage (CNRS and Université Paris 8). Her research mainly focuses on the role of structural vs. functional and universal vs. language-specific determinants in first and
second language acquisition.
Her past and ongoing research focuses on oral language use, acquisition, and pathology within a comparative perspective. Main questions include: (1) the relationship between structural and functional determinants of acquisition; (2) the autonomous or interactive nature of different components of language and cognition and (3) the relationship between language and cognition.
second language acquisition.
Her past and ongoing research focuses on oral language use, acquisition, and pathology within a comparative perspective. Main questions include: (1) the relationship between structural and functional determinants of acquisition; (2) the autonomous or interactive nature of different components of language and cognition and (3) the relationship between language and cognition.