Home Department: Linguistics
Affiliated Program: Cognitive Science
SLAT Areas of Specialization: Cognitive Dimensions of L2 Learning, Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning
Dr. Sarah Phillips is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. Prior to joining the UA, she completed her PhD in the Linguistics Department at New York University, working under Liina Pylkkänen‘s advisement, and her postdoctoral fellowship in the Neurology Department at Georgetown University, working with Anna Greenwald, Elissa Newport and Peter Turkeltaub. Phillips’ research focuses on developing linguistically inclusive, neurobiologically grounded models of language development and language processing that are translatable into clinical spaces. To achieve this, she primarily uses behavioral (psychometrics, eye-tracking) and neuroimaging (MEG, fMRI) measures with bilingual populations.