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| I am a visiting assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, in the Linguistics Program of the Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, Slavic Languages and Literatures. In July 2005, I received my PhD from Stanford University, where I studied in the Department of Linguistics. |
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
| Lexical semantics |
| First language acquisition |
| Syntactic theory |
| Psycholinguistics |
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RECENT AND ONGOING WORK
| "Causative alternation errors as event-driven construction paradigm completions", in Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly, (2006), Constructions in acquisition, Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. [PDF] |
| Causative Alternation Errors In Child Language Acquisition, PhD Thesis, Stanford University, July 2005. [PDF] |
| "Anti-extraction in Québécois French interrogatives", ms, 2006. [PDF] |
| "Language acquisition, linguistic evidence, the baby, and the bathwater", ms, 2006. [PDF] |
RECENT TALKS
| "Problems of knowledge and the innateness of grammatical knowledge: the case of the causative alternation", Center for Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, 2 February 2006. |
| "No positive evidence, and a non-innatist account of causative alternation errors", Boston University Conference of Language Development, November 2005. |
| "Language Acquisition, Linguistic Evidence, and Causative Alternation Errors", University of Canterbury Department of Linguistics, Christchurch, New Zealand, 26 October 2004. |
| "Negative evidence as a matter of course: argument alternation errors in child speech", Child Language Seminar, University of the West of England, Bristol, July 2004. |
| "Causative alternation errors and innate knowledge: consequences of the fallacy of the 'no negative evidence' assumption", Stanford University Department of Linguistics, Semantics Workshop: the construction of meaning, Stanford, California, 11 May 2004. |
| "Argument alternation errors in child speech", 2004 Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, April 2004. |
CONTACT INFORMATION
| Institute of Linguistics, English as a Second Language, Slavic Languages and Litreratures | |||
| University of Minnesota | |||
| 315 Pillsbury Dr. SE | |||
| Nolte Center 214 | |||
| Minneapolis, MN 55455 | |||
| U.S.A. | |||
| email: |   |
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