Lyn Frazier (born October 15, 1952, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American experimental linguist, focusing on psycholinguistic research of adult sentence comprehension.
[1] Frazier received her PhD in 1978 from the University of Connecticut under the supervision of Janet Dean Fodor, on the subject of parsing strategies in syntax.
Frazier's work has examined how listeners approach the task of processing the incoming language stream.
Her more recent work has focused on how listeners parse ellipsis (Clifton & Frazier 2010).
[7] She is co-editor of the book series Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, published by Springer.