Kate Davidson publishes paper with Rachel Mayberry in Language Acquisition
The paper examines the language performance of deaf adults who were not exposed to a sign language until later in life.
Language Acquisition
Raffaella Zanuttini and Claire Bowern publish op-eds on language prejudice, research funding, multilingualism
Professor Raffaella Zanuttini and Associate Professor Claire Bowern have recently written op-ed articles for a number of media outlets.
Yale linguists to participate in LSA Annual Meeting
Several members of the department will be giving talks, presenting posters, and receiving awards.
Kate Davidson publishes paper in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
Kate, Diane Lillo-Martin, and Deborah Chen Pichler argue that the spoken English development of children with cochlear implants is not impaired by exposure to sign language.
Introducing Kate Davidson
Kate is a postdoc in cognitive science who investigates the semantics/pragmatics interface and language acquisition through experimental work with sign languages.
Shira Calamaro presenting at CogSci 2013
Shira will travel to Berlin next week to present “A Computational Model of General Rule Learning with Unnatural Classes” at CogSci 2013.
Paper by Bob Frank in Language Acquisition
Bob Frank, with Don Mathis and Bill Badecker, has published a paper entitled The Acquisition of Anaphora by Simple Recurrent Networks in the journal Language Acquisition.
Professor Promotions
Yale Linguistics is happy to announce the promotions of Claire Bowern to Tenure, and Ashwini Deo and Gaja Jarosz to Associate Professor. Congratulations!
Paper by Gaja Jarosz published in Phonology
A paper by Gaja Jarosz, Learning with hidden structure in Optimality Theory and Harmonic Grammar: beyond Robust Interpretive Parsing, appears in the current issue of Phonology.
