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Jeanne Mueller, a professor emerita in the College of Human Ecology (CHE) who advised the U.S. and foreign governments on social services, died Nov. 2 in Rochester, New York. She was 100.

For decades, researchers studying the cognitive science of language acquisition have wrestled with a fundamental question – how important is experience in learning a language? And how does that experience affect language development?

The role of experience is difficult to study because people typically process the input data they experience –  the language they’re exposed to through daily life, interacting with others, watching videos, listening to conversations and media, etc. – and create language through