List of language acquisition researchers

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Below are some notable researchers in language acquisition listed by intellectual orientation and research topic.

Nativists

* Eric Lenneberg
* Steven Pinker
* Stephen Crain
* Thomas Bever
* Susan Gelman
* Susan Carey
* Elizabeth Spelke
* Lila R. Gleitman

Empiricists

* Elizabeth Bates
* Michael Tomasello
* Brian MacWhinney
* Elissa L. Newport
* Linda B. Smith
* Jenny Saffran
* Elena Lieven
* Dan Slobin
* Barbara Landau
* Melissa Bowerman
* Adele Goldberg
* Richard N. Aslin
* Janet Werker
* Roger Brown
* LouAnn Gerken
* Jean Berko Gleason
* Edward Klima
* Ursula Bellugi
* Gary Marcus
* Paul Bloom
* Eve V. Clark

Generative Language Acquisition

* Lydia White
* Luigi Rizzi
* Thomas Bever
* Nina Hyams
* Rosemarie Tracy
* Maria Teresa Guasti

Second language acquisition researchers

* H. Douglas Brown
* Martin Bygate
* John Bissell Carroll
* Pit Corder
* Alister Cumming
* Nick Ellis
* Rod Ellis
* Susan Gass
* Fred Genesee
* François Grosjean
* Luke Harding
* Keith Johnson
* Judit Kormos
* Stephen Krashen
* Judith F. Kroll
* Alison Mackey
* Rosa Manchón
* Paul Kei Matsuda
* Lourdes Ortega
* Teresa Pica
* Paul Pimsleur
* Richard Schmidt
* Norbert Schmitt
* Larry Selinker
* Merrill Swain
* Elaine Tarone
* Jyotsna Vaid
* Bill VanPatten
* Lydia White
* Alison Wray
* Michael T. Ullman

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory approach

* Kees de Bot
* Marijn van Dijk
* Zoltán Dörnyei
* Paul van Geert
* Nick Ellis
* Diane Larsen-Freeman
* Wander Lowie
* Sarah Mercer
* Marjolijn Verspoor

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