Multilingualism in the United States

As part of the Boston University Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program in 2021, examined the effects of negative attitudes and policies towards multilingualism and multilingual individual in the United States, and the ways in which those policies negatively impact Americans from all language backgrounds. I focus specifically on the negative impacts on such policies and attitudes on (1) adult English as a second language learners, (2) child heritages speakers, (3) native English-speaking students learning a foreign language in the U.S. educational system. The full Pardee Program paper can be found here.

Langauge Deprivation 

I have worked collaboration with, Betsy Beckert, Erin M. Finton, Anna Lim, Timothy Y. Loh, Joshua A. Mora, and Amy M. Lieberman in regard to the current debate surrounding the terminology used in regards to delayed language acquisition in deaf/Deaf and hard of hearing individuals. Our paper, (Beckert et. al., In Press) discusses the history and use of the term Language Deprivation and how the use of such a term in a formal research context can benefit individuals who have been impacted by the phenomenon.

Ende Word Order

As a member of the The Structures of Under-researched Languages (SULa) Lab, presented an analysis of basic work-order variation in the Papuan language, Ende. Using the Ende Language Corpus (Lindsey, 2019), I examined variation and and trends within the language in regards the ordering of subjects, objects and verbs; copula constructions; adpositions; and demonstratives among other topics.

This work was presented at the 12th Austrian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference in June of 2020.