Lois Masket Bloom was an American developmental psychologist and Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emerita of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
[1] Her pioneering research elucidated the roles of cognition, emotion, and social behavior in language acquisition.
[9] Her dissertation, Language Development: Form and Function in Emerging Grammars,[10] was supervised by sociolinguist William Labov.
Her research, involving case studies of the early utterances of three children, was highly influential in the field of language acquisition.
In contrast, Bloom's research, according to The New York Times, "pioneered the new trend" of examining children's two-word utterances for semantic intent as well as word distribution.
These files comprise the recordings and transcripts of three children's language development (Eric, Gia, and Peter) that Bloom collected for her dissertation.