Academic Status
Associate Professor
Gerardo Ortega
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Gerardo Ortega
I am a psycholinguist interested in the acquisition and emergence of language from a multimodal perspective. My research has mainly focused on sign language acquisition by hearing adults and deaf children. I also explore language development in speech and gesture in hearing children across different cultures. I have carried out studies exploring the role of […]
I am a psycholinguist interested in the acquisition and emergence of language from a multimodal perspective. My research has mainly focused on sign language acquisition by hearing adults and deaf children. I also explore language development in speech and gesture in hearing children across different cultures. I have carried out studies exploring the role of gesture and iconicity in sign language emergence and evolution.
Participation
Hannah Gibson
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Hannah Gibson
Hannah Gibson is a linguist based at University of Essex. Her work is concerned primarily with linguistic variation, multilingualism and language contact. She has conducted research in eastern and southern Africa.
Hannah Gibson is a linguist based at University of Essex. Her work is concerned primarily with linguistic variation, multilingualism and language contact. She has conducted research in eastern and southern Africa.
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Navin Viswanathan
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Navin Viswanathan
Associate Professor & Professor in Charge of the Undergraduate Program Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders & Program in Linguistics, The Center for Language Sciences The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Education Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2009
Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2009
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Tiago Torrent
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Tiago Torrent
I’m a Cognitive Linguist working on Natural Language Understanding within the framework of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. I’m also the head of the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab and a Professor of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
I’m a Cognitive Linguist working on Natural Language Understanding within the framework of Frame Semantics and Construction Grammar. I’m also the head of the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistics Lab and a Professor of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil.