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Birth Name:

Brian MacWhinney

Male

Birth Date:

Wed, Aug 22, 1945

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New York, New York, United States

Age:

79

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

29°

Leo

10'

About Brian MacWhinney

Brian James MacWhinney (born August 22, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology and Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. He specializes in first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and the neurological bases of language, and he has written and edited several books and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on these subjects. MacWhinney is best known for his competition model of language acquisition and for creating the CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) and TalkBank corpora. He has also helped to develop a stream of pioneering software programs for creating and running psychological experiments, including PsyScope, an experimental control system for the Macintosh; E-Prime, an experimental control system for the Microsoft Windows platform; and System for Teaching Experimental Psychology (STEP), a database of scripts for facilitating and improving psychological and linguistic research.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Brian MacWhinney's Homepage

• Faculty Biography, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

• Profile, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

• Summary of Research Interests

• Child Language Data Exchange System Project (CHILDES)

• TalkBank

• PsyScope--An Experimental Control System for the Macintosh

• System for Teaching Experimental Psychology (STEP)

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Brian MacWhinney: Sun 29 Leo, Moon 18 Aquarius, Mercury 25 Leo, Venus 20 Cancer, Mars 20 Gemini, Jupiter 29 Virgo, Saturn 20 Cancer, Uranus 17 Gemini, Neptune 4 Libra, Pluto 10 Leo, Sun Conjunct Mercury, Sun Semi Sextile Jupiter, Venus Semi Sextile Mars, Venus Conjunct Saturn, Mars Semi Sextile Saturn, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Jupiter Conjunct Neptune

Categories related to Brian MacWhinney: Living people, University of California, Berkeley alumni, August 22 births, American psychologists, Developmental psychologists, Applied linguists, Carnegie Mellon University faculty, Cognitive scientists, Linguists from the United States, 1945 births, Cognitive neuroscientists, Psycholinguists, University of Denver faculty, Bilingualism and second-language acquisition researchers, Developmental psycholinguists, Scientists from Pittsburgh