| Since August 2006 |
Assistant Professor Department of English/Linguistics Program University of South Carolina |
| January - June 2005 |
Instructor Department of Linguistics Unicersity of Maryland |
|
August 2006 |
Ph.D. in Seocond Language Acquisition Department of Second Language Studies University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| May 2001 |
M.A. in Linguistics Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee |
| June 2000 |
Staatsexamen für die Lehrämter (SekI/II), English and Mathematics [roughly equivalent to a double MA in English and mathematics] Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf |
|
July 2007 |
Visiting Scholar Department of Psychology (Brian McElree) New York University |
| Sep 2005 - May 2006 |
Visiting Scholar Deparmtent of Linguistics (Colin Phillips) University of Maryland |
| Aug 2001 - Aug 2006 |
PhD student Department of Second Language Studies (Bonnie Schwartz) Universiry of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Summer 2002 |
Graduate student participant LSA/DGfS Linguistic Summer Institute Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf |
| Summer 2001 |
Graduate student participant LSA Linguistic Summer Institute University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Aug 2000 - May 2001 |
M.A. student Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics (Fred Eckman) University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee |
| Oct 1996 - May 1997 |
Teaching Assistant (Pädagogischer Austauschdienst) Loreto Secondary School, Dublin, Ireland |
| Oct 1992 - June 2000 |
Lehramtsstudentin Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf |
| April 2007 - Dec 2008 | Research Foundation, University of South Carolina: Research Opportunity Grant ($17,650.00). The use of grammatical constraints in native and non-native language processing (Award Number: 12530-KA12). |
| June 2005 – Nov 2006 | National Science Foundation (NSF): Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($11,900.00). Wh-scope marking in English interlanguage grammars: Transfer and processing effects on the second language acquisition of complex wh-questions (Award Number: BCS-0518382). |
| accepted | "Syntactic creativity in L2 English: The emergence of wh-scope marking in Japanese-English Interlanguage." Second Language Research. |
| 2006 | "Evidence for wh-scope
marking in advanced Japanese-English interlanguage" In D. Bamman, Magnitskaia Tatiana & C. Zaller (Eds.), BUCLD 30 Proceedings. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. |
| 2006 | "Wh-scope marking in German-English and
Japanese-English interlanguage grammars: An investigation of clustering
syntactic properties." In K. U. Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schulz & B. D. Schwartz (Eds.) Proceedings of the inaugural GALANA conference. Storrs: UConnWPL. |
| 2006 | “Where do L2ers attach interclausal adverbials?”
(co-authored with Bullock, G., Omaki, A., Schwartz, B. D., & Tremblay, A.) In A. Belletti, E. Bennati, C. Chesi, E. Di Domenico, & I. Ferrari (Eds.), Language acquisition and development: Proceedings of GALA 2005. |
| 2006 | K. U. Deen, J. Nomura, B. Schulz & B. D. Schwartz (Eds.) Proceedings of the inaugural GALANA conference. Storrs: UConnWPL. |
| 2004 | " A minimalist account of partial wh-movement." In L. Clarito & T. McKamey (Eds.), Proceedings 2004: Selected papers from the eighth college-wide conference for students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. |
| 2004 | "Crossing the borders of formal and functional linguistics: An Optimality Theoretic account of German topic-drop." In K. Ikeda, & J. Robideau (Eds.), Proceedings 2003: Selected papers from the seventh college-wide conference for students in Languages, Linguistics, and Literature, Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press. |
| March 2008 | “Filler activity before the gap:
Evidence from wh-islands.” Poster presented at the 21th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing,, Chapel Hill, NC, March 15, 2008. |
| January 2008 | “Investigating the interaction of
language processing and linguistic universals in (second) language acquisition.” Paper presented at the Linguistics Department, University of Ottawa, January 15, 2008. |
| January 2008 | “Language processing as an explanatory factor for
(second) language acquisition.” Paper presented at the Linguistics Department, University of Maryland, January 8, 2008. |
| November 2007 | “Language learning as a result of
inefficient processing: How limited processing resources can aid language development.” Paper presented at the Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of South Carolina, November 9, 2007. |
| March 2006 | "What does the
stop-making-sense task show how wh-scope
marking questions are processed in English?" Poster presented at the 19th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, CUNY Graduate Center, March 24, 2006. |
| February 2006 | "What second language
learners know about syntax but couldn't have learned." Paper presented at the Department of Linguistics, University of South Carolina, February 3, 2006. |
| January 2006 | "Wh-scope marking in
interlanguages: The emergence of a German construction in L2 English." Paper presented at the Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University, January 24, 2006. |
| January 2006 | "On the acquisition and processing of complex wh-questions in L2 English." Paper presented at the Program of Second Language Studies in the Department of Linguistics, Michigan State University, January 18, 2006. |
| January 2006 | "On the acquisition and processing of complex wh-questions in L2 English." Paper presented at the CNL Lunch Talk, Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, January 12, 2006. |
| November 2005 | "Evidence for wh-scope
marking in advanced Japanese-English interlanguage grammars" Paper to be presented at BUCLD 30, 6 November. |
| September 2005 | "Did they say in
Interlanguage that CP is missing, or did they say that in Interlanguage CP is missing?" Paper presented with G. Bullock, A. Omaki, B.D. Schwartz, and A. Tremblay at GALA 2005, Siena, Italy, 9 September 9. |
| June 2005 | "What do English
questions show how the L2er acquires English syntax?" Paper presented at the 'Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium', Department of English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, 16 June. |
| May 2005 | "On the interaction of transfer and
processing in (early) Interlanguage. " Paper presented with G. Bullock, A. Omaki, B.D. Schwartz, and A. Tremblay at JSLA 5, Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, 14 May. |
| February 2005 | "Indeterminism
in adult English interlanguage: Does inter-learner variation reflect
syntactic or processing differences?" Paper presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft), 23 February. |
| January 2005 | "Syntactic clustering versus processing: Evidence from the acquisition of
wh-movement in L2 English."" Paper presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), 6 January 2005. |
| December 2004 | "Wh-scope marking in German-English and
Japanese-English interlanguage grammars:
An investigation of clustering syntactic properties." Paper presented at the inaugural conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America (GALANA), 18 December 18. |
| April 2004 | "A minimalist account of partial wh-movement" Paper presented at the eighth college-wide conference for graduate students in the college of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. |
| October 2003 | "An OT account of German topic drop" Paper presented at the Seventh Workshop on Optimality Theory Syntax, University of Nijmegen. |
| April 2003 | "Crossing the borders of formal and functional linguistics: An Optimality
Theoretic account of German topic-drop" Paper presented at the seventh college-wide conference for graduate students in the college of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature. |