Vera Kempe

Vera Kempe completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Moscow State University and her Ph.D. at Humboldt University Berlin (Ger­many), where she studied sentence processing under the supervision of Friehart Klix. She then worked as a post-doctoral research fellow with Brian MacWhinney at Carnegie Mellon Univer­sity and with Stephen Christman at the University of Toledo (Ohio). During this period, she became interested in the cross-linguistic study of first and second language learning, and used experimental and computational methods to study how distri­butional characteristics of morphosyntax affect learning and processing in different languages.