I am a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut, and a Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. I am an affiliated faculty member of the CT Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and a former fellow of the UConn Humanities Institute.
My main research interest is to better understand the human language faculty. Primarily I examine this by studying the structure and acquisition of American Sign Language, and by looking at the process of language acquisition across different languages. See my Research page and the Sign Linguistics and Language Acquisition lab site for more information.
Upcoming Linguistics Events
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2/20
Talk: Vicki Carstens
Talk: Vicki Carstens
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus HBL Class of 1947 Conference Room
Invited talk. Title T.B.A.Contact Information: Željko BoÅ¡koviÄ, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu
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2/24
Talk: Roumyana Pancheva
Talk: Roumyana Pancheva
Monday, February 24th, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus AUST 163
Invited Talk. Title T.B.A.Contact Information: Željko BoÅ¡koviÄ, zeljko.boskovic@uconn.edu
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2/26
Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments"
Penelope Pelizzon: "Animals and Instruments"
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Austin 217 (Stern)
Wed., Feb. 26, 12-1:30pm
Austin 217 (Stern)
Please join Penelope Pelizzon for a poetry reading of "Animals and Instruments."Contact Information: wayne.franklin@uconn.edu
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2/28
Meaning Group: Ahmad Jabbar
Meaning Group: Ahmad Jabbar
Friday, February 28th, 2020
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Storrs Campus Oak 338
Our own Ahmad Jabbar will be presenting on the retraction of epistemically modalized utterances.
The UConn Meaning Group meets on a regular (mostly weekly) basis throughout the academic year to discuss recent and ongoing work in the areas of Semantics, Pragmatics, and Philosophy of Language.
Follow the link below for details and contact information.Contact Information: http://meaning.linguistics.uconn.edu
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3/6
CogSci Colloquia: Carol Miller
CogSci Colloquia: Carol Miller
Friday, March 6th, 2020
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Storrs Campus McHugh Hall, Room 206
The Cognitive Science Colloquium Series is proud to present Carol Miller, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics at Penn State University.
Talk Title: Developmental language disorder at the intersection of working memory and sentence processing: Theoretical and clinical implications
Abstract: A substantial body of research shows the presence of verbal working memory deficits in almost all individuals with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, relatively little is known about the mechanisms responsible for these deficits and how they affect, or are affected by, difficulties with language comprehension and production. Over a number of years, my collaborators and I have investigated verbal working memory and its relation to other variables in children and adults with DLD. We have primarily focused on how working memory interacts with sentence processing and repetition. In this talk, I will review our work, share some of our thinking and questions, and describe proposed next steps in this line of research. We hope that by using working memory models from cognitive science to enhance experimental research in language disorders, we will contribute to both theory refinement and to improved assessment and intervention for people with DLD.Contact Information: xygalatas@uconn.edu
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Recent Posts
- UConn Today piece on the Family ASL project February 6, 2020
- 2020 is here February 6, 2020
- August 2018 Update August 22, 2018
- Sign Language Acquisition – ASL text NOW AVAILABLE! June 18, 2018
- Sabbatical in the Netherlands January 26, 2018