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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff holds the Unidel H. Rodney Sharp Chair in the School of Education at the University of Delaware and is also a member of the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She directs the Child’s Play, Learning and Development Laboratory, whose goal it is to understand how children tackle the amazing feat of learning language. Having obtained her Ph.D. at Cornell University, she has written 16 books— some for lay readers like How Babies Talk, and dozens of research articles, many with her long-standing collaborator, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. The recipient of a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical award, Golinkoff blogs for the Huffington Post and is frequently quoted in newspapers and magazines.