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November 13, 2025
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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
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Expertise
acquisition of syntactic categories in first language acquisition
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syntactic distinction of lexical and functional categories
,
syntax of African languages