Elika Bergelson among Forbes's "young scientists who are changing the world"
January 05, 2015
Linguistics
Congratulations to
Elika! The '08
Baggett alumna is one of Forbes's "
30 Under 30: Young Scientists Who Are Changing The World"! The magazine celebrates Elika's finding – reported
here,
here, and in her 2013 UPenn dissertation under
Dan Swingley – that while "around 6 months, infants start understanding words for foods and body parts, not until 10 months do they get words like 'uh-oh' or verbs like 'eat'."