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I study language and literacy development, as well as informal science learning. My main collaborators are: Dana McDaniel (Linguistics, U. of Southern Maine); Merrill Garrett (retired from Pyschology, U. of Arizona); Sam Supalla (SERSP, U. of Arizona); Laura Wagner (Psychology, Ohio State); Maria Emiliani (retired from Unita Sanitaria Locale, Italy). With student and community volunteers, I'm active in public engagement through festivals, K-12 schools, and museums. (See this guide from the Linguistic Society of America.) For example, this video reports on a 2016 course taught in collaboration with Children's Museum Tucson.Show Less
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Courses
- ALDAdvanced Language Development
- LWLanguage in the World
- TLDTheories of Language Development
- MLSMeaning in Language and Society
- LDLanguage Development
- PLPsychology of Language
Grants
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Children's Awareness of Syntactic Ambiguity
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$13.6K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research: Psycholinguistic Studies of Prepositions in English and Icelandic
Principal Investigator (PI)
2009
$21.0K
- Collaborative Research: Children's Planning & Production of Filler-Gap Constructions
Principal Investigator (PI)
2008
$257.5K
News
- Three UArizona faculty named AAAS Fellows
2022
- Engagement Course with Children's Museum Tucson Inspires UA Students
2016
- Spock's Humanity Was Nimoy's Gift
2015
- Museum Pairing Promotes Children's Scientific Exploration
2015
- Childhood Stories That Never Lose Their Magic
2014
- National Science Foundation Invites the UA to Exhibit Linguistic Data at Annual D.C. Festival
2014
- Exploring Meaning through Movies
2013
- Studying the Linguistic Relevance of Star Trek
2013
- Commitments to Service, Off Hours
2010
- Faculty Senate Announces Election Results
2006
- Rethinking Literacy Strategies For Deaf Students
2001
- Supalla to Participate in Literacy and Deaf Education Symposium
2001
- 2000 Year in Review: SBS Recognized for Departmental, Faculty Achievements
2000
- Provost's General Education Teaching Award 2000: McKee's 'Guide on the Side' Teaching Strategy Pays Off
2000
Publications (51)
Recent
- How to Talk Language Science with Everyone
2023
- Fast passives, slow relatives
2022
- Machine Learning and Human Language
2019
- What you see isn’t always what you get
2018
- Chapter Ten What You See Isn’t Always What You Get
2018
- Children's performance abilities: language production
2017
- Engaging Broader Audiences
2015
- Public outreach in linguistics: Engaging broader audiences
2015
- The role of the language production system in shaping grammars
2015
- Linguistics for Everyone: Engaging a broader public for the scientific study of language
2015
- Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure
2013
- Child language: Acquisition and development
2011
- Child language production: Fluency variations as markers of syntactic planning.
2010
- Fluency markers for children’s sentence planning: Early and late stage processing
2010
- Children's sentence planning: Syntactic correlates of fluency variations
2010
- Frequency effects in children’s syntactic and morphological development
2009
- Lexical Development
2006
- How do children become adult sentence producers?
2006
- Multiple influences on children's language performance
2004
- Dominio del ASL y ortografía inglesa. Manejo de la ortografía inglesa del niño con dominio del ASL
2003
- What’s thats?
2002
- The role of manually coded English in language development of deaf children
2002
- What's Thats?
2002
- The signs of language revisited: An anthology to honor Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima
2001
- Print as a primary source of English for deaf learners
2001
- Lemma structure in language learning: Comments on representation and realization
2001
- Resumptive pronouns in English relative clauses
2001
- Methods for assessing children's syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. Pp. xviii+ 390.(Clifton Pye)
2000
- Mutual exclusivity effects in adjective acquisition
1999
- Relatives children say.
1998
- Methods for assessing children's syntax
1998
- Relatives Children Say
1998
- Resumptive pronoun strategies in English-speaking children
1998
- How children's relatives solve a problem for minimalism
1998
- Lexical factors in language acquisition
1997
- Some adjectives are'easy'and some are not
1997
- Disturbi di acquisizione del linguaggio
1997
- On-line methods.
1996
- Methods for Assessing Children's Syntax (Language, Speech, and Communication)
1996
- Lila Gleitman/Babara Landau (eds.): The Acquisition of the Lexicon. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press 1994
1996
- Children’s oblique relatives
1996
- Language Acquisition: A Linguistic Introduction
1994
- Il clitico: C'è ma non si vede
1992
- A comparison of pronouns and anaphors in Italian and English acquisition
1992
- Which Children Did They Show Obey Strong Crossover?
1992
- Visiting relatives in Italy
1990
- Italian children's mastery of binding.
1989
- Cross-linguistic analyses of the acquisition of coreference relations
1987
- possibility reemerges that the predictions of linguistic
1986
- We begin our response by setting out several
1986
- Acquisition of structural restrictions on anaphora
1985