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September 5, 2026
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Heather
Littlefield
Associate Academic Specialist in Linguistics, Assistant Director and Head Advisor of Linguistics
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h.littlefield@neu.edu
617.373.3164
Expertise
acquisition of syntactic categories in first language acquisition
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syntactic distinction of lexical and functional categories
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syntax of African languages