University of Connecticut
Department of Linguistics, Unit-1145
337 Mansfield Road
Storrs, CT 06269-1145

Phone: (860) 486-0155
Fax: (860) 486-0197
TTY: (860) 486-9026

Email:lillo.martinuconn.edu

1981 BA, California State University, Northridge. Major: Linguistics; Minor: Anthropology.

1983 MA, Linguistics, University of California, San Diego.

1983 Student, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, UCLA.

1985 Visitor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1986 Ph.D., Linguistics, University of California, San Diego.

Dissertation: Parameter Setting: Evidence from Use, Acquisition, and Breakdown in American Sign Language

1980-1981 Tutor, Linguistics Program; California State University, Northridge

1983-1985 Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics; University of California, San Diego

1982-1986 Research Assistant, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Studies; The Salk Institute

1986-1993 Assistant Professor, Linguistics Department; University of Connecticut

1986-present Research Associate; Senior Research Scientist; Haskins Laboratories

1993-1998 Associate Professor, Linguistics Department; University of Connecticut

1995-present Department Head, Linguistics Department; University of Connecticut

1998-present Professor, Linguistics Department; University of Connecticut

Theoretical/Experimental Psycholinguistics; Language Acquisition; Syntax; Reading; American Sign Language

Linguistic Society of America

Generative Linguists of the Old World

International Association for the Study of Child Language

1977-1981 Aid Association for Lutherans All College Scholarship

1981 Summa Cum Laude, California State University, Northridge

1981-1982 Regents Fellowship, University of California, San Diego

1983 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship

1984 Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UCSD

1984-1985 Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UCSD

1985-1986 Research Grant, Office of Graduate Studies and Research, UCSD

1986 Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, UCSD

1986- Small Research Grants, Research Foundation, UConn. 1986-87, 1987-88, 1991-92 (with Stephen Crain), 1995-96, 1996-97

1987 Faculty Major Research Grant, Research Foundation, University of Connecticut (with Stephen Crain)

1987 Summer Faculty Fellowship, UConn

1987 Equipment Grant, Research Foundation, UConn (with Stephen Crain)

1988 Equipment Grant, Research Foundation, UConn (with Stephen Crain)

1988-1992 Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant; 'The Acquisition of Literacy by Deaf Children and Adults'

1992-1993 Shannon Award, National Institutes of Health

1993-1997 Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant; 'The Acquisition of Language and Literacy by the Deaf'

1994 Faculty Major Research Grant, Research Foundation, UConn

1996 Faculty Major Research Grant, Research Foundation, UConn

1997-1998 Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant; 'The Acquisition of Language in Deaf Children'

1998 Faculty Major Research Grant, Research Foundation, UConn (with William Snyder)

1998 Phi Kappa Phi

1998-2002 Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health Grant; 'The Acquisition of Language in Deaf Children'

1999 Chancellor's Information Technology Award, UConn

2000 Faculty Major Research Grant, Research Foundation, UConn

2001-2003 Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant; 'The Acquisition of ASL by Deaf Children with Delayed Input'

1980-1981 Student Representative, CSUN

1981-1983 Student Representative, UCSD

1984-1985 Colloquium Committee, UCSD

1984-1985 Organization Committee, Review Committee, Southern California Conference on General Linguistics

1985-1986 Student Representative, UCSD

1985-1986 Chair, Organization Committee, Southern California Conference on General Linguistics

1987-1990 Chair, Admissions Committee, Linguistics Department, UConn

1988-1991 Curriculum and Courses Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UConn

1989-1993 Social and Behavioral Sciences, Area Review Committee, UConn

1990 Presenter at NIDCD Research and Training Meeting on Perspectives of the Deaf Community

1991-1993 Chair, Admissions Committee, Linguistics Department, UConn

1994 Member, NIDCD Expert Panel on Language and Language Impairments

1994-1995 Steering Committee, Haskins Laboratories

1994-1996 Chair, Search Committees, Linguistics Department, UConn

1994-1996 Search Committee, Dean, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, UConn

1997 Chair, Search Committee, ITAP Manager, UConn

1998- Member, Editorial Board, Sign Language & Linguistics

2001-2005 Member, BBBP-3 Study Section, National Institutes of Health

Ad hoc Reviews:

 

Brain and Language; International Journal/Review of Sign Linguistics; Journal of Child Language; Journal of Memory & Language; Journal of Speech and Hearing Research; Language; Language Acquisition; Language and Speech; Linguistic Inquiry; The Linguistic Review; Natural Language and Linguistic Theory; Neuropsychologia; Perception & Psychophysics; Studia Linguistica; Blackwell Press; Chicago University Press; D. Reidel Press; Oxford University Press

National Science Foundation Linguistics Program;

National Science Foundation Developmental & Learning Sciences Program;

National Institutes of Health Sensory Disorders and Language Study Section;

National Institutes of Health Small Business Awards;

National Institutes of Mental Health;

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;

Various national linguistics conferences

Lillo-Martin, D. (1991). Universal Grammar and American Sign Language: Setting the Null Argument Parameters. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Marschark, M., Siple, P., Lillo-Martin, D., Campbell, R., & Everhart, V. (1997). Relations of Language and Thought: The View from Sign Language and Deaf Children. New York: Oxford University Press.

Crain, S., & Lillo-Martin, D. (1999). Linguistic Theory and Language Acquisition. Oxford: Blackwell.

Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin, D. (to appear). True Language Universals: Signed Languages and Linguistic Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1984). The Acquisition of Task-Specific Word Formation Devices in American Sign Language. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 23, 74-81.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1985). Null Pronouns and Verb Agreement in American Sign Language. In S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, & J. McDonough (Eds.), Proceedings of NELS 15, 302-318. Amherst: GLSA.

Lillo-Martin, D., Bellugi, U., Struxness, L., & O'Grady, M. (1985). The Acquisition of Spatially Organized Syntax. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 24, 70-78.

Fok, A., Bellugi, U., & Lillo-Martin, D. (1986). Remembering in Chinese Signs and Characters. In H. Kao & R. Hoosain (Eds.), Linguistics, Psychology, and the Chinese Language, 177-202. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press.

Hamilton, H. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1986). Imitative Production of Verbs of Movement and Location: A Comparative Study. Sign Language Studies 50, 29-57.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1986a). Effects of the Acquisition of Morphology on Syntactic Parameter Setting. In S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, & J. McDonough (Eds.), Proceedings of NELS 16, 305-321. Amherst: GLSA.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1986b). Two Kinds of Null Arguments in American Sign Language. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 4, 415-444.

Bellugi, U., vanHoek, K., Lillo-Martin, D., & O'Grady, L. (1988). The Acquisition of Syntax and Space in Young Deaf Signers. In D. Bishop & K. Mogford (Eds.), Language Development in Exceptional Circumstances, 132-149. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1988). Children's New Sign Creations. In M. Strong (Ed.), Language Learning and Deafness, 162-183. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. & Tallal, P. (1988). Effects of Different Early Experiences. In J. Stiles-Davis, M. Kritchevsky, & U. Bellugi (Eds.), Spatial Cognition: Brain Bases and Development, 433-441. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Bellugi, U., Lillo-Martin, D., O'Grady, L., & vanHoek, K. (1990). The Development of Spatialized Syntactic Mechanisms in American Sign Language. In W. H. Edmondson & F. Karlsson (Eds.), SLR '87: Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research, 183-189. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag.

Bellugi, U., O'Grady, L., Lillo-Martin, D., O'Grady, M., vanHoek, K., & Corina, D. (1990). Enhancement of Spatial Cognition in Deaf Children. In V. Volterra & C. Erting (Eds.), From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children, 278-298. New York: Springer Verlag.

Fischer, S. D., & Lillo-Martin, D. (1990). UNDERSTANDing Conjunctions. International Journal of Sign Linguistics 1, 71-80.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1990a). Parameters for Questions: Evidence from WH-Movement in American Sign Language. In C. Lucas (Ed.), Sign Language Research: Theoretical Issues, 211-222. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1990b). Studies of American Sign Language Syntax and the Principles and Parameters of Universal Grammar. In W. Edmondson & F. Karlsson (Eds.), SLR '87: Papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research, 86-93. Hamburg: Signum-Verlag.

Lillo-Martin, D. & Klima, E. (1990). Pointing out Differences: ASL Pronouns in Syntactic Theory. In S. Fischer & P. Siple (Eds.), Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Volume 1: Linguistics, 191-210. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1991). Comments on Hyams and Weissenborn: On Licensing and Identification. In J. Weissenborn, H. Goodluck, & T. Roeper (Eds.), Theoretical Issues in Language Acquisition: Papers from the Berlin Roundtable, 301-308. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lillo-Martin, D., Hanson, V. L., & Smith, S. T. (1991). Deaf Readers' Comprehension of Complex Syntactic Structure. In D. S. Martin (Eds.), Advances in Cognition, Education, and Deafness, 146-151. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1992a). Deaf Readers and Universal Grammar. In M. Marschark & D. Clark (Eds.), Psychological Perspectives on Deafness, 311-337. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1992b). Sentences as Islands: On the Boundedness of A'-Movement in American Sign Language. In H. Goodluck & M. Rochemont (Eds.), Island Constraints, 259-274. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Lillo-Martin, D. C., Hanson, V. L., & Smith, S. T. (1992). Deaf Readers' Comprehension of Relative Clause Structures. Applied Psycholinguistics 13, 13-30.

Wang, Q., Lillo-Martin, D., Best, C. T., & Levitt, A. (1992). Null Subject Versus Null Object: Some Evidence from the Acquisition of Chinese and English. Language Acquisition 2, 221-254.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1994). Setting the Null Argument Parameters: Evidence from American Sign Language and Other Languages. In B. Lust, M. Suqer, & G. Hermon (Eds.), Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives, Volume 2: Anaphora, 301-318. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Emmorey, K. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1995). Processing Spatial Anaphora: Referent Reactivation with Overt and Null Pronouns in American Sign Language. Language and Cognitive Processes 10, 631-664.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1995). The Point of View Predicate in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey & J. Reilly (Eds.), Language, Gesture, and Space, 155-170. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Crain, S., Thornton, R., Boster, C., Conway, L., Lillo-Martin, D., & Woodams, E. (1996). Quantification without Qualification. Language Acquisition 5, 83-153.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1997a). The Acquisition of English by Deaf Signers: Is Universal Grammar Involved? In S. Flynn, G. Martohardjono, & W. O'Neil (Eds.), The Generative Study of Second Language Acquisition,131-149. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1997b). The Modular Effects of Sign Language Acquisition. In Support of the Language Acquisition Device. In M. Marschark, P. Siple, D. Lillo-Martin, R. Campbell, & V. Everhart, Relations of Language and Thought: The View from Sign Language and Deaf Children, 62-109, 153-162. New York: Oxford University Press.

Petronio, K. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1997). Wh-Movement and the Position of Spec CP: Evidence from American Sign Language. Language 73, 18-57.

Hiramatsu, K. & Lillo-Martin, D. (1998). Children Who Judge Ungrammatical What They Produce. In A. Greenhill, M. Hughes, H. Littlefield, & H. Walsh (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development., 337-347. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1999). Modality Effects and Modularity in Language Acquisition: The Acquisition of American Sign Language. In T. Bhatia & W. Ritchie (Eds.), Handbook of Language Acquisition, 531-567. San Diego: Academic Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (2000). Aspects of the Syntax and Acquisition of WH-Questions in American Sign Language. In K. Emmorey & H. Lane (Eds.), The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klims, 401-413. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Lillo-Martin, D. (2001). Review of 'The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure', by C. Neidle, J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, & R. Lee. Syntax 4, 139-143.

Lillo-Martin, D. (2001). Sign Eloquence Beyond Words. Review of 'The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure', by C. Neidle, J. Kegl, D. MacLaughlin, B. Bahan, & R. Lee. The Times Higher Education Supplement, Oct. 12, 2001, p. 29. London: TSL Education Ltd.

Quadros, R., Lillo-Martin, D. & Mathur, G. (2001). O que a aquisigco da linguagem em criangas surdas tem a dizer sobre o estagio de infinitivos opcionais? Letras de Hoje: Estudos e Debates de Assuntos de Ling|mstica, Literatura e Lmngua Portuguesa 36.3, 391-397. (Anais do 5 encontro nacional sobre aquisigco da linguagem e do 1 encontro internacional sobre aquisigco da linguagem, 2 a 6 de outubro de 2000, organizados por R. Lamprecht & S. Menuzzi). Porto Alegre: PUCRS.

Sandler, W. & Lillo-Martin, D. (2001). Natural Sign Languages. In M. Aronoff & J. Rees-Miller (Eds.), The Handbook of Linguistics, 533-562. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.

Lillo-Martin, D. (to appear). Cross-Linguistic Study of Early Syntax. ULBRA.

Lillo-Martin, D. (to appear). Sign Language. In Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Macmillan.

Lillo-Martin, D. (to appear). Where are All the Modality Effects? In R. Meier, K. Cormier, & D. Quinto (Eds.), Modality and Structure in Signed Language and Spoken Language. Cambridge University Press.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1987). Studies of American Sign Language and the Principles and Parameters of Universal Grammar. In. Y. Ishii, R. Thornton, H.-H. Ahn, and E. Bar-Shalom (Eds.), University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics 27-38.

Lillo-Martin, D., Hanson, V., & Smith, S. (1988). Prospects for Examining deaf Readers' Comprehension of Complex Syntactic Structures. In J. Ormazabal & J. Sarma (Eds.), University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics Volume 2, 30-39.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1989). Raising in Niuean. In P. Farrell, K. Kellogg, S. Poteet, J. Rubba, & A. Thyme (Eds.), Linguistic Notes from La Jolla 15, 41-61.

Lillo-Martin, D. (1996). In Support of the Language Acquisition Device. In K. Matsuoka & A. Halbert (Eds.), University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics 6: Papers in Honor of Stephen Crain: Language Acquisition and Processing, 83-90.

Lillo-Martin, D., Boster, C.T., Matsuoka, K., & Nohara, M. (1996). Early and Late in Language Acquisition. In K. Matsuoka & A. Halbert (Eds.), University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics 6: Papers in Honor of Stephen Crain: Language Acquisition and Processing, 13-24. Reprinted in Portuguese (1999). O Inicial e o Tardio na Aquisigco da Linguagem: Aspectos de Questues WH na Lmngua Americana de Sinais. C. Skliar (Org.) Atualidade da Educagco Bilmng|e para Surdos: Interfaces entre Pedagogia e Ling|mstica, 183-194. Porto Alegre: Editora Mediagco.

'The Acquisition of Task-Specific Word Formation Devices in American Sign Language.' Stanford Child Language Research Forum; Palo Alto, CA; March 1984.

'Null Pronouns and Verb Agreement in American Sign Language.' North Eastern Linguistic Society; Brown University, Providence, RI; November 1984.

'Is ASL an NSL?' Linguistic Society of America; Baltimore, MD; December 1984.

'The Acquisition of Spatially Organized Syntax.' Stanford Child Language Research Forum; Palo Alto, CA; March 1985. With U. Bellugi, L. Struxness, & M. O'Grady.

'Effects of the Acquisition of Morphology on Syntactic Parameter Setting.' North Eastern Linguistic Society; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec; November 1985.

'Agreement, Inflection, and Cliticization.' Linguistic Society of America; Seattle, WA; December 1985.

'Pointing out Differences: ASL Pronouns in Syntactic Theory.' Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; June 1986. With E. Klima.

'Examining Language Dominance Through Hand Dominance.' Boston University Conference on Language Development; Boston, MA; October 1986. With U. Bellugi, E. Klima, L. O'Grady, & J. Vaid.

'Bounded A'-Movement in American Sign Language.' Linguistic Society of America; New York, NY; December 1986.

'Patterns of Syntactic Acquisition in American Sign Language.' Language Acquisition and Language Impairment in Children; Parma, Italy; June 1987.

'Studies of American Sign Language Syntax and the Principles and Parameters of Universal Grammar.' Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research; Lappeenranta, Finland; July 1987.

'The Development of Spatialized Syntactic Mechanisms in American Sign Language.' Fourth International Symposium on Sign Language Research; Lappeenranta, Finland; July 1987. With U. Bellugi, L. O'Grady, & K. vanHoek.

'The Acquisition of Null Arguments in American Sign Language.' Fourth International Congress for the Study of Child Language; Lund, Sweden; July 1987.

'Parameter Setting in the Acquisition of American Sign Language.' Invited paper, Boston University Conference on Language Development; Boston, MA; October 1987.

'Parameters for Questions: Evidence from Wh-Movement in American Sign Language.' Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research II; Gallaudet University, Washington DC; May 1988.

'The Acquisition of Structural and Pragmatic Constraints on Pronominal Reference.' Linguistic Society of America; New Orleans, LA; December 1988. With K. Murasugi & S. Crain.

'Deaf Readers' Comprehension of Complex Syntactic Structure.' Cognition, Education, and Deafness; Gallaudet University, Washington DC; July 1989. With V. Hanson & S. Smith.

'Sentences as Islands: On the Boundedness of A'-Movement in American Sign Language.' Psycholinguistics of Island Constraints; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario; September 1989.

'UNDERSTANDing Conjunctions.' Linguistic Society of America; Washington, DC; December 1989. With S. Fischer.

'Research on Complex Syntax in ASL and English: Reading and Acquisition.' Invited presentation, workshop on NIDCD Research and Training: Perspectives of the Deaf Community; Bethesda, MD; September 1990.

'Use of Null Arguments by Chinese- and English-speaking Children.' Poster presentation, Linguistic Society of America; Chicago, IL; January 1991. With Q. Wang & A. Levitt.

'The Acquisition of English and American Sign Language.' Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science; Storrs, CT; April 1991.

'Processing Spatial Anaphora: Referent Activation with Overt and Null Pronouns in American Sign Language.' CUNY Sentence Processing Conference; University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; May 1991. With K. Emmorey.

'Setting the Null Argument Parameters: Evidence from American Sign Language and Other Languages.' Invited paper, Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross Linguistic Perspectives; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; April 1992.

'Overt and Covert Wh-Questions in American Sign Language.' Fifth International Symposium on Sign Language Research; Salamanca, Spain; May 1992. With S. Fischer.

'Adherence to Cross-Linguistic Constraints in American Sign Language and English.' Fifth International Symposium on Sign Language Research; Salamanca, Spain; May 1992.

'Bilingual, Bicultural Education and Theoretical Linguistics.' Invited discussion, Round Table on Bilingual and Bicultural Approaches to Deaf Education and Language Policy; Fourth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; University of California, San Diego; August 1992.

'The Point of View Predicate in American Sign Language.' Fourth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; University of California, San Diego; August 1992.

'The Acquisition of English by Deaf Signers: Is Universal Grammar Involved?' Workshop on Recent Advances in Second Language Acquisition; MIT, Cambridge, MA; January 1993.

'On the Direction of Wh-Movement in American Sign Language.' Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans; January 1995. With K. Petronio.

'The Acquisition of American Sign Language Syntax.' Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft; Goettingen, Germany; March 1995.

'Mastering ASL Syntax.' American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting; San Francisco; April 1995.

'Language Acquisition in Deaf Children with Early ASL Input.' Conference on Issues in Language and Deafness; Nebraska City; October 1995. With M. Nohara, K. Matsuoka, & C. T. Boster.

'Early and Late in Language Acquisition.' Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego; January 1996. With C. T. Boster, K. Matsuoka, & M. Nohara.

'Effects of Different Early Input on the Acquisition of ASL Syntax by Deaf Children.' Poster presentation, Fifth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; Universite du Quebec a Montreal; September 1996. With C. Boster, A. Halbert, K. Matsuoka, M. Nohara, S. Schley, & D. Simons-Marques.

'Some Syntactic Grounds for Intonation in American Sign Language.' Invited talk, Workshop on Intonation in Oral and Sign Languages; Haifa, Israel; June 1997.

'Children who Judge Ungrammatical what they Produce.' Boston University Conference on Language Development; Boston, Massachusetts; November 1997. With K. Hiramatsu.

'Acquisition of Verb Agreement in ASL and LIBRAS: A Cross-Linguistic Study.' Poster presentation, Sixth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; Novermber 1998. With R. de Quadros & G. Mathur. [Also presented at the UMass-UConn Language Acquisition Workshop, October 1998.]

'Syntactic Aspects of Intonation.' Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting; Los Angeles; January 1999.

'How Early Exposure to ASL Affects Syntax Acquisition.' Vth Latin-American Congress on Bilingual Education of the Deaf; Porto Alegre, Brazil; April 1999.

'Language and Modality.' UConn Cognitive Science Conference; Storrs, CT; May 1999.

'Modality and Modularity: Where are the Effects?' Invited keynote presentation, Texas Linguistic Society meeting on "The Effects of Modality on Language and Linguistic Theory"; Austin, Texas; February 2000.

'A Little Change Goes a Long Way: Capturing Structural Differences Between Brazilian Sign Language and American Sign Language.' Seventh International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; Amsterdam; July 2000. With R. de Quadros & D. Chen.

'Effects of Delayed ASL Input on Children's Narratives.' Poster presentation, Seventh International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research; Amsterdam; July 2000. With S. Berk.

'Modality and Linguistics: On the Structure and Acquisition of Sign Languages.' Mini-Course, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; September 2000.

'The ASL Lexicon.' Invited participation in the Language, Mind, and Brain Seminar, SUNY Stony Brook; December 2000.

'Modality and Modularity: Where are the Effects?' Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; San Francisco; February 2001.

'On the Acquisition of Spanish Goal PPs.' 4th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages; Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; October 2001. With W. Snyder.

'Path PPs and Root Compounding in the Acquisition of English.' Boston University Conference on Language Development; Boston, Massachusetts; November 2001. With W. Snyder, S. Felber, & B. Kang.

'Cross-Linguistic Language Acquisition.' IV Congresso Internacional de Lmngua e Literatura do Mercosul; Canoas, Brazil; November 2001.

'Language Acquisition.' Mini-Course, IV Congresso Internacional de Lmngua e Literatura do Mercosul; Canoas, Brazil; November 2001.

Northeastern University; May 1985

McGill University; November 1985

University of California, San Diego; January 1986

University of Iowa; January 1986

University of California, Irvine; March 1986

University of Connecticut; October 1986

Northeastern University; February 1987

University of Mass., Amherst; March 1987

National Technical Institute for the Deaf; March 1988

Princeton University; March 1989

Massachusetts Institute of Technology; April 1989

University of Maryland; April 1989

Haskins Laboratories; May 1989

Boston University; February 1990

University of Mass., Amherst; November 1991

Brandeis University; February 1992

University of Maryland; March 1992

University of Chicago; May 1992

CUNY Graduate Center; September 1992

Harvard University; April 1994

Cornell University; September 1995

Salk Institute; January 1996

University of Maryland; April 1996

Five College Cognitive Science Community; University of Mass.; December 1997

CUNY Graduate Center; April 1998

Pontifmcia Universidade Catslica do Rio Grande do Sul; April 1999

University of Delaware; April 2000

Nanzan University, Japan; September 2000

Pontificia Universidade Catslica do Rio Grande do Sul; November 2001

Universidade Estadual de Campinas; November 2001 (two talks)

April 1987; May 1988; February 1990; April 1991; November 1991; February 1992; October 1994; May 1995; March 1996; September 1996; November 1997; November 1998; November 1999

Keiko Murasugi (1991). Noun Phrases in Japanese and English: A Study in Syntax, Learnability and Acquisition. University of Connecticut.

Carole Boster (1997). Processing and Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition: A Computational Approach. University of Connecticut.

Kazumi Matsuoka (1998). The Acquisition of Japanese Case Particles and the Theory of Case Checking. University of Connecticut.

Ronice Quadros (1999). Phrase Structure of Brazilian Sign Language. Pontificia Universidade Catslica do Rio Grande do Sul. (co-supervisor)

Kazuko Hiramatsu (2000). Accessing Linguistic Competence: Evidence from Children's and Adults' Acceptability Judgments. University of Connecticut. (co-supervisor)

Laurel LaPorte-Grimes (2001). The Syntax and Acquisition of Verbal Inflection. University of Connecticut.

Deborah Chen Pichler (2001). Word Order Variability and Acquisition in American Sign Language. University of Connecticut.

Associate advisor for 28 completed Ph.D. dissertations in Linguistics at the University of Connecticut; 2 in other fields at the University of Connecticut; and 3 at other universities.