FY 2008 Annual Report of Achievements - Gallaudet University

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• Online Collection of Frequency and “Age of Acquisition” Ratings of ASL Vocabulary,
David Corina (University of California, Davis)
• Temporal Representations in ASL Description of Events, Paul Dudis
• Academic Language Functions in ASL, Paul Dudis
• Situation Construal, Viewpoint, and ASL Constructions, Paul Dudis
• Development and Analysis of an Online Test of ASL, Peter Hauser (NTID)
• Five-Year Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Investigation of the Development of Higher
Order Thinking Skills and Acquisition of Reading Skills in Children from Ages 3–9, Lon
Kuntze (Boston University)
• Empirical Tests of Sentence Interlanguage Mappings, Jill Morford (University of New
Mexico)
• Cross-Language Lexical Activation in ASL-English Bilinguals, Jill Morford (University of
New Mexico)
• Age-Appropriate ASL Vocabulary, Jill Morford (University of New Mexico)
• Ethical Research Practices With Deaf Participants, Jenny Singleton (University of
Illinois)
• The Socialization of Visual Engagement for Bilingual Language Acquisition in Early
Childhood Deaf Education, Jenny Singleton (University of Illinois)
Funding source: National Science Foundation
FY 2007-2008 product(s):
Al-Fityani, K., & Padden, C. (2007). A lexical comparison of sign languages of the Arab world. In Electronic Proceedings of
the Ninth Conference of Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research. Florianopolis, Brazil: Editora Arara Azul.
Allen, T.E. (2008, May). Literacy and deafness: Visual and written languages as complex learning. Paper presentation at the
Principles of Complex Learning Symposium of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago.
Aronoff, M., Meir, I., Padden, C., & Sandler, W. (2008). Roots of linguistic organization in a new language. Interaction
Studies: Special Issue on Holophrasis, Compositionality and Protolanguage, 9(1), 131-150.
Bavelier, D., Newman, A., Mukherjee, M., Hauser, P., Kemeny, S., Braun, A., et al. (in press). Encoding, rehearsal and
recall in signers and speakers: Shared network but differential engagement. Cerebral Cortex.
Carreiras, M., Gutiérrez-Sigut, E., Baquero, S., & Corina, D. (in press). Lexical processing in Spanish Sign Language
(LSE). Journal of Memory and Languages.
Corina, D. (2007, September). Deafness and brain plasticity: Perspectives from studies of signed and spoken languages. Paper
presentation at the Dual Language of Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Children Nordic Conference, Göteborg, Sweden.
Corina, D. (2007, September). Neural representation for ASL; Evidence from aphasia, CSM and neuroimaging studies. Paper
presentation at the Department of Special Education and Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway.
Corina, D. (2007, September). Neural representation of sign language and non-linguistic gestures in deaf signers. Paper presentation
at the Department of Special Education and Linguistics, University of Oslo, Norway.
Corina, D. P., Chiu, Y.S., Knapp, H., Greenwald, R., San Jose-Robertson, L., & Braun, A. (2007, June). Neural correlates
of human action observation in hearing and deaf subjects. Brain Research, 1152, 111-29.
Corina, D.P., & Knapp, H.K. (in press). Neurobiology of signed languages. In P.C. Hogan (Ed.), The Cambridge
Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.
Corina, D.P., & Knapp, H.K. (in press). Signed language and human action processing: Evidence for functional
constraints on the human mirror neuron system. In G.F. Eden & D.L. Flowers (Eds.), Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences: Vol. 1145. Learning, skill acquisition, reading, and dyslexia. New York: New York Academy of
Sciences.
Crume, P., & Singleton, J.L. (2008, February). Structuring eye-gaze and literacy development in a preschool setting. Poster
presentation at the first annual inter-Science of Learning Centers Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Crume, P., & Singleton, J.L. (2008, February). Teacher practices for promoting visual engagement of deaf children in a bilingual
preschool. Paper presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of College Educators of the Deaf and Hard of
Hearing, Monterey, CA.
Dudis, P. (2007, October). Iconicity in ASL grammar: A cognitive linguistics view. Invited presentation at the 2007 Margaret
Stobie Lecture, Linguistics Department, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.