This lecture honors Elizabeth Bates' extraordinary contributions to the language and cognitive sciences. In a prolific career over three decades, Liz conducted studies in over 20 languages on four continents and authored or co-authored 10 books and over 200 articles. She also was an extraordinary mentor. Over the last decade of her life alone she mentored more than 8 post-docs and 24 pre-doctoral students. Her scientific contributions to the field of cognitive science were rich and varied, and defy any simple categorization. Visit the Elizabeth Bates Memorial Web Site for more on Liz’s extraordinary career.

The 2009 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
Donna J. Thal
SDSU/UCSD
Topic: An Individual Differences Approach to Early Identification of Clinically-Significant Language Disorders

The 2008 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
Jeff Elman, Ph.D.
University of California, San Diego
Topic: On the Meaning of Words and Dinosaur Bones
Web Site: http://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman

The 2007 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
Laurence Leonard, Ph.D.
Purdue University
Topic: Accounting for the Uneven Morphosyntactic Profile in Specific Language Impairment: A Crosslinguistic Perspective
Web Site: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/slhs/pages/fac_staff/faculty/leonard.html

The 2006 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
Michael Tomasello, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Topic: Constructing a Language
Web Site: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/

The 2005 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
The abstract for the 2005 Elizabeth Bates Lecture given by Viginia Marchman can be viewed by clicking the following link: 2005 Abstract

The 2004 Elizabeth Bates Lecture
The first Elizabeth Bates Lecture given by Judith Johnston at the 2004 SRCLD can be viewed by clicking the following link: 2004 Lecture