Nina Hyams
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Nina Hyams (born 1952) is a distinguished research professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of California in Los Angeles.[1]
Hyams received her PhD in linguistics in 1983 from Graduate Center of the City University of New York, with a dissertation entitled, The acquisition of parameterized grammars.[2] It was published by Springer in 1986,[3] and it remains a widely cited and influential classic.[4]
Her primary research area since her dissertation is grammatical development in first language acquisition.[5][6][7][8][9][10] She is particularly noted for her research into the acquisition of null subjects.[11][12][13]
In 2020 she was inducted as a Fellow in the Linguistic Society of America.[14][15]
