List of language acquisition researchers

Below are some notable researchers in language acquisition listed by intellectual orientation and research topic.

Nativists
 * Eric Lenneberg
 * Steven Pinker
 * Stephen Crain
 * Thomas Bever
 * Susan Gelman
 * Susan Carey
 * Elizabeth Spelke
 * Lila R. Gleitman

Empiricists
 * Elizabeth Bates
 * Michael Tomasello
 * Brian MacWhinney
 * Elissa L. Newport
 * Linda B. Smith
 * Jenny Saffran
 * Elena Lieven
 * Dan Slobin
 * Barbara Landau
 * Melissa Bowerman
 * Adele Goldberg
 * Richard N. Aslin
 * Janet Werker
 * Roger Brown
 * LouAnn Gerken
 * Jean Berko Gleason
 * Edward Klima
 * Ursula Bellugi
 * Gary Marcus
 * Paul Bloom
 * Eve V. Clark

Generative Language Acquisition
 * Lydia White
 * Luigi Rizzi
 * Thomas Bever
 * Nina Hyams
 * Rosemarie Tracy

Second language acquisition researchers
 * H. Douglas Brown
 * Martin Bygate
 * John Bissell Carroll
 * Pit Corder
 * Alister Cumming
 * Nick Ellis
 * Rod Ellis
 * Susan Gass
 * Fred Genesee
 * François Grosjean
 * Luke Harding
 * Keith Johnson
 * Judit Kormos
 * Stephen Krashen
 * Judith F. Kroll
 * Alison Mackey
 * Rosa Manchón
 * Paul Kei Matsuda
 * Lourdes Ortega
 * Teresa Pica
 * Paul Pimsleur
 * Richard Schmidt
 * Norbert Schmitt
 * Larry Selinker
 * Merrill Swain
 * Elaine Tarone
 * Jyotsna Vaid
 * Bill VanPatten
 * Lydia White
 * Alison Wray
 * Michael T. Ullman

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory approach
 * Kees de Bot
 * Marijn van Dijk
 * Zoltán Dörnyei
 * Paul van Geert
 * Nick Ellis
 * Diane Larsen-Freeman
 * Wander Lowie
 * Sarah Mercer
 * Marjolijn Verspoor