Academic Status
Associate Professor
Gerardo Ortega
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
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
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
Participation
Tiago Torrent
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.