Her research interests include:
- Phonological and morphological development in children
- Computer modeling of phonological development and morphological knowledge
- Interaction of discourse structure with syntactic defects in aphasia, including experimental techniques for studying the effects of empathy and shared information;
- Psycholinguistic models of sentence production in discourse context, focusing on understanding of language about spatial relations and orientations
- Phonotactics in first and second language learners
- Cross-linguistic comparison of language disorders
- Web access for people with aphasia