About
Education
- 2001 Ph.D. in Linguistics. University of Connecticut
- 1998 MA in Linguistics. University of Connecticut
- 1995 B.A. in French Language & Culture. Pennsylvania State University
- 1995 B.S. in General Biology. Pennsylvania State University
Currently Teaching
| VEE-150 | Research Methods in ASL/English Bilingual Academic Contexts | Credits: 3 |
| LIN-702 | Generative Linguistics I | Credits: 4 |
| LIN-890 | Dissertation Proposal Development | Credits: 3 |
- LIN-480 Linguistics Research Experienc (2010/02)(01)
- LIN-510 Intro to First and Second Lang (2010/02)(01)
- LIN-510 Intro to First and Second Lang (2014/02)(01)
- LIN-702 Intro to Syntactic Theory (2010/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics (2011/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2012/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2013/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2014/01)(01)
- LIN-703 Proseminar I (2009/01)(01)
- LIN-703 Proseminar I (2010/01)(01)
- LIN-703 Proseminar (2011/01)(01)
- LIN-703 Proseminar (2013/02)(01)
- LIN-704 Proseminar II (2010/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2011/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2012/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2013/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2014/02)(01)
- LIN-799 Independent Study (2010/02)(01)
- LIN-802 Generative Linguistics III (2012/01)(01)
- LIN-811 Language Acquisition by Chldrn (2009/01)(01)
- LIN-811 First Language Acquisition (2012/02)(01)
- LIN-812 Second Language Acquisition (2014/01)(01)
- LIN-812 Language Learning by Adults (2009/02)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2009/01)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2011/01)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2009/02)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2011/02)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2011/01)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2011/02)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2012/02)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2013/02)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2013/01)(02)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2012/02)(02)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2009/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2010/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2011/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2012/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2013/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2014/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2009/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2010/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2011/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2012/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2013/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2014/02)(02)
- LIN-302 Intro to Syntax and Discourse (2017/02)(01)
- LIN-302 Intro to Syntax and Discourse (2018/02)(01)
- LIN-510 Intro to First and Second Lang (2018/01)(G01)
- LIN-595 Special Topics (2017/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2015/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2017/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2018/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2019/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2020/01)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2015/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2017/02)(01)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2018/02)(01)
- LIN-799 Independent Study (2018/01)(01)
- LIN-802 Generative Linguistics III (2017/01)(01)
- LIN-802 Generative Linguistics III (2020/01)(01)
- LIN-812 Second Language Acquisition (2019/02)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2015/01)(02)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2015/02)(02)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2019/01)(03)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2019/02)(03)
- LIN-883 Dissertation Concept Paper (2017/01)(01)
- LIN-883 Dissertation Concept Paper (2020/01)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2017/01)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2016/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2015/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2020/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2015/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2017/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2019/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2017/02)(02)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2018/02)(02)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2017/01)(03)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2018/01)(04)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2019/01)(04)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2020/02)(01)
- LIN-883 Dissertation Concept Paper (2020/02)(03)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2020/02)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2021/01)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2021/01)(05)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2021/01)(01)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2022/01)(1)
- GPS-798 Continuous Enrollment (2022/01)(2)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2022/01)(4)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2021/02)(3)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2021/02)(1)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2021/02)(03)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2021/02)(01)
- LIN-499 Independent Study (2022/02)(01)
- LIN-795 Special Topics (2022/02)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2022/02)(01)
- LIN-499 Independent Study (2022/02)(02)
- LIN-702 Generative Linguistics I (2023/01)(01)
- LIN-880 Guided Research Project (2023/01)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2023/01)(01)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2023/01)(02)
- LIN-799 Independent Study (2019/02)(OL1)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2024/01)(02)
- LIN-733 Generative Linguistics II (2024/02)(01)
- LIN-802 Generative Linguistics III (2024/02)(01)
- LIN-890 Dissertation Proposal Devlpmnt (2024/02)(02)
- LIN-900 Dissertation Research (2024/02)(07)
- LIN-811 First Language Acquisition (2024/02)(01)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2017/02)
- PST 375 - Language Learning by Eye or by Ear (2018/01)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2018/02)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2020/01)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2019/02)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2019/03)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2020/02)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2020/03)
- PST 375: Language Learning by Eye and by Ear (2021/01)
- Bimodal Bilingualism Summer Research Training Course (2020/03)
- Language acquisition by signing children (2019/02)
- Language acquisition by signing children (2018/03)
- Language (deprivation) in deaf children (2022/02)
- The case of bimodal bilingualism for deaf children in hearing families (2021/02)
- Language acquisition by signing children (2020/02)
- Recent research on Bimodal bilingualism (2020/03)
- Language Learning Through the Eye and Ear: Q&A Session (2020/01)
- Language Learning Through the Eye and Ear Q&A Session (2019/02)
- Shared reading and depiction in creative storytelling (2019/01)
- Three myths that perpetuate language deprivation (2019/01)
- Child language development by eye or by ear (2019/01)
- Language acquisition by signing children (2018/03)
- Language acquisition by signing children (2018/03)
- The importance of early sign language exposure for deaf children (2017/03)
- Connect the Dots: Language Acquisition as Pattern-Findin (2017/03)
- Language acquisition as pattern finding (2021/02)
- Language acquisition by deaf and hard of hearing children. (2022/01)
- Supporting Families with Deaf and HoH Children, Part I (2022/02)
- Supporting Families with Deaf and HoH Children, Part II (2022/02)
- Supporting Families with Deaf and HoH Children, Part III (2023/01)
- Sign Language Acquisition as a Human Right (2022/03)
- PST 376: Universality and Variation in Sign Language Learning (2022/01)
- Advising Load 2021/02: Total:33 Masters:20 Doctoral:2 Other:11
- Advising Load 2022/01: Total:33 Masters:20 Doctoral:2 Other:11
- Advising Load 2020/02: Total:33 Masters:21 Doctoral:2 Other:10
- Advising Load 2021/01: Total:33 Masters:21 Doctoral:2 Other:10
- Advising Load 2020/01: Total:30 Masters:18 Doctoral:2 Other:10
- Advising Load 2019/02: Total:26 Masters:16 Doctoral:1 Other:9
- 2014 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award
- 2009 Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to University of Zagreb
- 2017 Overseas Visiting Fellow
- 2017 Invited Guest Researcher
- Word order variation and acquisition in American Sign Language.
- Conventions for sign and speech transcription of child bimodal bilingual corpora in ELAN
- Desenvolvimento bilíngue intermodal: implicações para educação e interpretação de língua de sinais
- Spoken English language development among native signing children with cochlear implants
- Sign production by first-time hearing signers: A closer look at handshape accuracy
- Bilingual language synthesis: Evidence from WH-questions in bimodal bilinguals
- Acquisition of syntax in signed languages
- Possession and existence in three sign languages
- Using early ASL to shed light on word order variability in sign language
- Multilingual aspects of signed language communication and disorder
- WH-QUESTIONS IN BIMODAL BILINGUALS--EVIDENCE FOR LANGUAGE SYNTHESIS
- O que bil'ingues bimodais t^em a nos dizer sobre desenvolvimento bil'ingue?
- What bimodal bilingual have to say about bilingual developing?
- Sign language acquisition
- Effects of bimodal production on multi-cyclicity in early ASL and Libras
- Sources of handshape error in first-time signers of ASL
- Variation in the Input
- Spoken English Language in Native Signing Children with Cochlear Implants
- Bimodal bilingual cross-language influence in unexpected domains
- An overview of possessives and existentials in American Sign Language
- Development of sign language acquisition corpora
- Standardizing Chinese Sign Language for use in post-secondary education
- Two Languages But One Computation: Code-Blending in Bimodal Bilingual Development
- Language choice in bimodal bilingual development
- Code-blending in bimodal bilingual development
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition corpora
- Methods in bimodal bilingualism research: Experimental studies
- BIMODAL BILINGUAL CROSS-LANGUAGE INFLUENCE IN UNEXPECTED DOMAINS1 DIANE LILLO-MARTIN, RONICE M"ULLER DE QUADROS
- CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE EARLY EFFECTS OF BILINGUALISM ON WH-QUESTIONSTRUCTURES: INSIGHT FROM SIGN-SPEECH BILINGUALISM1
- Acquisition of sign language as a second language (L2)
- Early effects of bilingualism on WH-question structures: Insight from sign-speech bilingualism
- 12 Bimodal Bilingualism: Sign Language and Spoken Language
- 14 Acquisition of Sign Language as
- Language acquisition
- Phonological memory and phonological acquisition in bimodal bilingual children
- Learning American Sign Language in High School.
- Best practices for building a bimodal/bilingual child language corpus
- Methodological considerations for the development and use of sign language acquisition data
- Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages
- Community Input on Recontesting for Data Sharing
- Refining Coding Criteria for Phonological Accuracy of L2 Signing
- The Oxford Handbook of Deaf Studies in Language
- Bi-National Bi-modal Bi-Lingual corpora of child language
- Synthesizing commentaries and responses
- Empirical Manuscripts
- Improving ASL Pedagogy
- The development of bimodal bilingualism: Implications for linguistic theory
- A short introduction to heritage signers
- Proceedings of the 36th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
- Language acquisition and development: Proceedings of GALA 2009
- Multilingual aspects of signed language communication and disorder
- Multi-modal visually-oriented translanguaging among Deaf signers
- Greatest challenges to implementing translanguaging practices in Swedish and American deaf contexts
- Modality-(in) dependent second language learning
- Heritage signers: Bimodal bilingual children from deaf families
- Sign Multilingualism
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Multilingualism: The Fundamentals
- Mais do que a soma das partes: Aspetos fonol'ogicos da aquisic{c}~ao bilingue bimodal da linguagem
- Cross-Language influence, code-switching, and code-blending
- Sign Language Acquisition by Deaf and Hearing Children: a Bilingual Introductory Digital Course
- Noun Phrases in bimodal bilingual acquisition
- The development of sign language
- Sign Language
- Development of pointing signs in ASL and implications for their analysis
- L2 acquisition of sign language
- Effects of bimodal production on multi-cyclicity in early ASL and Libras
- More than the sum of the parts: bimodal bilingual language acquisition phonological aspects
- Family ASL: An Early Start to Equitable Education for Deaf Children
- Constructing a profile of successful L2 signer hearing parents of deaf children
- Cripping the ‘delay’: Multilingualism-related consequences of re-labeling language deprivation systems
- Lessons to be learned from bimodal bilingualism.
- The Role of Modality in L2 Learning: The Importance of Learners Acquiring a Second Sign Language (M2L2 and M1L2 Learners)
- Handbook of Bilingual Phonetics and Phonology
- Phonological development in ASL-signing children: Insights from pseudosign repetition tasks
- Recognizing Complexity in Children's Signed Narratives
- ASL Pronoun Acquisition: Implications for Pronominal Theory
- Bimodal Bilingualism for an early start to equitable education for deaf children
- Points to self by deaf, hearing and coda children
- Hearing parents and deaf children learning a sign language together
- Deaf vs Hearing L2 Signers: Preliminary comparison of M1L2 and M2L2 narratives
- Parents partnering with language researchers to identify best practices for learning ASL
- Sign Language Acquisition, Annotation, Archiving and Sharing: The SLAAASh Project Status Report.
- ASL pronoun acquisition: Implications for pronominal theory.
- Effect of minimal sign language instruction on hearing learners’ constituent order.
- Motivation for L2 ASL learning by hearing parents with deaf children
- How to support ASL as an L1 for children and L2 for parents: An interactive discussion
- Stuck at beginner level: Hearing parents’ challenges in learning ASL word order.
- Aquisição língua de sinais
- Community Input on Re-consenting for Data Sharing
- Challenging the oral-only narrative: Enhancing early signed input for deaf children with hearing parents
- The Crip Linguistics Reader
- Phonological Development in ASL-Signing Children: Pseudosign Repetition
- In the beginning: The very initial stage of M2L2 sign language syntax
- Lessons to be Learned from Bimodal Bilingualism
- Family ASL: Bimodal bilingual acquisition by deaf children of hearing parents- (National Institutes of Health (NIH))
- L2 sign acquisition in M1 and M2 contexts- (Gallaudet Priority Grant)
- The development of bimodal bilingualism- (National Institutes of Health)
- Family ASL: L2 Sign Acquisition by Hearing Parents of Deaf Children- (National Institutes of Health)
- Shane Blau-LIN (PhD) 2021/02
- Daniel Maier-LIN (PhD) 2021/02
- Heather Hamilton-LIN (PhD) 2021/02
- Kaj Kraus-LIN (PhD) 2021/02
- Council on Graduate Education: Chair 2018/01-2018/02
- Council on Graduate Education: Member 2012/01-2017/02
- ELI search (2 positions) 2021/02
- LIN representative to GLIDE ad hoc committee 2020/01
- LIN search committee 2019/02-2019/03
- LIN graduate coordinator 2019/01
- Faculty representative, Operational Transformation Steering Committee 2021/02
- CGE Curriculum Subcommittee Chair 2016/01-2017/02
- LIN assessment coordinator 2018/01-2018/02
- Proxy LIN chair for meetings with Dean 2018/01-2018/02
- External reviewer for Habilitation applicant: University of Paris VIII 2020/01-2020/01
- External reviewer for Docentship application: University of Jyväskylä 2021/01-2021/02
- External referee for Professor of Finnish Sign Language search: University of Jyväskylä, Finland 2017/03-2018/01
- External referee for Substantiation application: Chinese University of Hong Kong 2019/03-2019/03
- External referee for tenure application: Boston University 2021/01-2021/01
- External referee for tenure application: Smith College 2011/01-2011/01
- Member of Program Review team for CUHK Dept of Linguistics: Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) 2017/03-2018/01
- Member of expert panel at Clerc Center: Clerc Center 2018/02-2019/01
- Reviewing linguistics journals: Various 2005/01
- External reviewer for linguistics conferences: TISLR, ICSLA, SSLL, FEAST 2005/01
- External reviewer for granting agencies: Various 2008/01
- Guest lecturer at University of MD: University of MD 2005/01
- Guest lecturer at Georgetown U: Georgetown University 2005/02-2015/02
- Guest lecturer at local middle and high schools: Local middle and high schools 2013/02-2015/02
- Lecture at parents' workshop: National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2017/02-2017/02
- Bilingualism lecture: National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2015/03-2015/03
- Member of expert panel on “Focusing on Early Accessible Language” : Clerc Center national online panel 2018/02-2018/02
- Professional/Faculty Development: Washington, District of Columbia 2002/01
- Bilingual Approaches Seminar (I): Washington, District of Columbia 2013/03-2013/03
- Certification for online teaching: Washington, District of Columbia 2013/01-2013/01
- Quality Matters Peer Reviewer Course: Washington, District of Columbia 2019/03-2019/03
- 2015-2021 SLAAASh project (Sign Language Acquisition, Annotation, Archiving and Sharing) 2015/01-2020/02
- ASL Connect pilot project 2018/03-2021/01
- Bimodal Bilingual Code-Blending: Language Synthesis 2018/01
- I can’t hear you—could you repeat the question in sign language please? 2020/02
- SMILE-II project (Scalable multimodal sign language technology for sign language learning and assessment, Phase-II) 2021/01
- DINLANG project (Multimodal language practices in French family dinners) 2021/01
