Rebecca Treiman
American psychologist
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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, to Sam Bard Treiman and Joan Little Treiman, Rebecca Treiman received a B.A. in linguistics from Yale University in1976. Alvin Liberman was her adviser for her senior honors thesis at Yale.
Treiman received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (1980). Jonathan Baron was her adviser for a thesis titled "The phonemic analysis ability of preschool children." She was a faculty member at Indiana University and Wayne State University before moving to Washington University in St. Louis in 2002.
Treiman has written two books on children's spelling, and has published research articles on the processes involved in reading and spelling in children and adults. She has over 200 publications and an h-index of over 85. In addition, Treiman has edited or co-edited several books on spelling and reading.
Treiman was editor in chief of the Journal of Memory and Language from 1997 to 2001. She was awarded the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading in 2014.