D. Kimbrough Oller
D. Kimbrough Oller (born March 31, 1946), also known as
Kim Oller, is an American scientist who has contributed to the fields of the
evolution of language,
child phonology,
speech-language pathology (focusing on vocal patterns in cases of infant and childhood
hearing loss,
Down syndrome, and
autism), and to the fields of
bilingualism and
second-language acquisition. He is currently Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the
University of Memphis, where he directs the Origin of Language Laboratories. He is also an external faculty member of the
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (
Klosterneuburg, Austria) and a permanent member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
LENA Foundation of
Boulder, Colorado. Oller was elected as a Fellow of the
American Speech–Language–Hearing Association (ASHA) in 2004 and was granted the Honors of ASHA in 2013. In 2022 he was elected as a Lifetime Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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