Jean L. Crawford
University of Connecticut
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http://jeanerz.com
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Major: L1 acquisition (passives, optional infinitives, learnability), experimental syntax (acceptability judgments, syntactic satiation, subject islands)
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Minor: event semantics, aspect, L2 acquisition, literacy, first language
attrition, sentiment analysis |
EDUCATION
| 2005-Present | University
of Connecticut
Doctoral program in Linguistics (Degree awarded: Fall 2011)
Dissertation: Developmental Perspectives on the Acquisition of the Passive
Committee: William Snyder, Diane Lillo-Martin, Maria Polinsky |
| 2000-2004 |
Boston University
MA in Applied Lingustics
MA
Thesis: The Acquisition of the Sesotho passive: Reanalyzing a
counterexample to Maturation
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| 1994-1998 | University of
Georgia
BA in International Business with specialization in
Finance
Minor in French
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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
| 2011 | Student Travel
Award
CUNY Conference on Human Language Processing, Stanford, CA
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| 2005-2009 | Pre-doctoral
Fellowship
University of Connecticut
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| 2004 | NSF Student Travel
Grant
1st Annual GALANA, University of Hawai'i
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| 2002 | Foreign Language Area
Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Boston University African Studies
Center
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| 2001 | African Studies
Fellowship
Boston University African Studies Center
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RESEARCH POSITIONS
| 2009-11 | Visitor
Polinsky
Lab
Harvard University |
| 2009-11 | Research
Assistant
Snedeker Lab, Laboratory for Developmental Studies
Harvard University
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| 2004 | Visiting
Student
Wexler Ab/Normal Language Research Laboratory
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| 2003 | Experimenter
Metalinguistic
Awareness tests for Arabic-English Bilingual and English Monolingual
Children
Dissertation Research of Mohammed Al-Dossari, Boston
University
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| 2001-2002 | Experimenter
Speech,
Gesture, and Motion Event: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study.
Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics
Principal
Investigators: Shanley Allen, Sotaro Kita, Asli Ozyurek
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| 2001 | Experimenter
The
Effects of Joint Attention and Newness on Argument Realization.
Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics
Principal
Investigator: Shanley Allen
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PRESENTATIONS
| 2011 | Using Syntactic Satiation Effects to Investigate Subject Islands
ISLANDS 2011 (Islands in Contemporary Linguistic Theory), November 16-18, 2011
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| 2011 | Using Syntactic Satiation Effects to Investigate Subject Islands
Talk at WCCFL 29, April 22-24, 2011
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| 2011 | Do Particles Give you Compounds? (with Corina Goodwin, Helen Koulidobrova, Jose Riqueros-Morante, Diane Lillo-Martin, Letty Naigles and William Snyder)
UConn Language Fest, April 8, 2011
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| 2011 | Syntactic Satiation Effects in Subject Islands
Talk at Chicago Linguistic Society, April 7-10, 2011
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| 2011 | Syntactic Satiation of Subject Islands
Poster at CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 22-24, 2011
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| 2008 | Sesotho passives: The Long and Short
of It
33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, November 2, 2008
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| 2008 | Sesotho passives:
Evidence for Maturation (with Christopher Hirsch)
3rd
Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North American (GALANA)
conference
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT September 5,
2008
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| 2008 | Acquisition of
Causatives and Applicatives: The Case of Child Sesotho (updated)
(with William Snyder)
IASCL conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July
29, 2008.
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| 2008 | Acquisition of
Causatives and Applicatives: The Case of Child Sesotho (with
William Snyder)
3rd Acquisition of African Languages
Conference
Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South
Africa. January 21, 2008
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| 2007 | Japanese children's
knowledge of causation and event structure
Poster presented at
the Nanzan-UConn-Cambridge-Hyderabad-Siena Consortium
Nagoya,
Japan, February 2007
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| 2004 | Adversity passives
and Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to
Maturation
Poster presented at the inaugural GALANA (Generative
Approaches to Language Acquisition)
Honolulu, Hawaii.
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| 2004 | An adversity passive
analysis of Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to
Maturation
Poster presented at the 29th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development.
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PUBLICATIONS
| in progress | Melody Eckardt, MD, MPH, Roy Ahn, MPH ScD, Raquel Reyes, MD, MPA, Elizabeth Cafferty, MSc, Jean Crawford, MA, Allison Mulcahy, MD, Thomas F. Burke, MD. Impact of maternal ultrasound implementation in remote clinics in Mali. |
| in progress | Snedeker, J. and Crawford, J. Optional Infinitives in Internationally Adopted Children: Testing the Maturation Hypothesis. |
| 2011 | Using Syntactic Satiation to Investigate Subject Islands. Proceedings
of WCCFL 29 April 22-24, 2011. |
| 2011 | Syntactic Satiation of Subject Islands. Proceedings
of the 47th Chicago Linguistic Society April 7-10, 2011. |
| 2009 | J. Crawford, K. Otaki
and M. Takahashi
(eds.) Proceedings
of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition
North America (GALANA 2008). Boston: Cascadilla
Press. |
| 2009 | Sesotho passives: The
Long and Short of It. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord and
G-M. Rheiner
(eds.) Proceedings
of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development. 109-120. Boston: Cascadilla Press. |
| 2005 | An
adversity passive analysis of Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a
counterexample to Maturation. In A. Brugos, M.R. Clark-Cotton and
S. Ha
(eds.) Supplement
to the Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2009 | ELS Language Centers,
Cambridge, MA
English instructor
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| 2005-2008 | University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Writing
Associate, University
Writing Center
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| 2007 | University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Section leader for Linguistics
101
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| 2004-2005 | Centro
Latino de Chelsea, Chelsea, MA
ESL Instructor
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| 2004-2005 | Language While You
Work, Boston, MA
Workplace ESL Instructor
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| 2004 | Tufts University,
Somerville, MA
Instructor, English
Today Summer Institute
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| 2002-2004 | Intergenerational
Literacy Project, Chelsea, MA
Literacy Teacher
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| 2002-2004 | School of
Theology, Boston University
Coordinator, Writing
Works Writing Center
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
| present | Teragram Lingustic Technologies/SAS Advanced Analytics Research and Development
Sentiment Analysis, Parsing
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| 2010 | Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Global Health and Human Rights
French/Bambara Translation
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| 2007 | Language
Works
Consultant, Court translation services
(Bambara)
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| 2004-2005 | BBN
Technologies, Cambridge, MA
Corpus annotation, Speech and
Langauge Processing Division
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| TBA | United
States Agency For International Development
Language and
Education Consultant, Women's Legal Rights Initiative
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| 2000-2001 | Program
in Mathematics for Young Scientists, Boston University
Development Coordinator/Grant Writer
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| 1998-2000 | US
Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa
Small Business Development
Volunteer
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| 1999 | US
Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa
Technical Trainer
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SERVICE
| 2008 | Organizer/Student
Coordinator, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North
America 3 (GALANA 3) September 4-6, 2008
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| 2008 | President, Linguistics
Club at UConn
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| 2008 | Coordinator,
UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW) May 5,
2008
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| 2008 | Webmaster, Acquisition
of African Languages Conference, Stellenbosch, South
Africa
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| 2006-2008 | Treasurer,
Linguistics Club at UConn
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| 2002-2004 | Handbook Chair,
Boston University Conference on Language Development (27th, 28th, 29th
Annual)
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| 2001-2002 | Organizer, BU
Graduate Student Conference in African Studies (9th and 10th
Annual)
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| 2000 | Registration Chair, the
25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development
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MEMBERSHIPS
| Phi Kappa Phi Honor
Society
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| Linguistics Society of
America
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| International Association
for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
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| Phi Sigma Pi National Honor
Fraternity
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LANGUAGES
| English (Native)
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| French (Fluent)
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| Bambara (Fluent)
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| Spanish (Working Knowledge)
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| German (Working Knowledge)
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| Sesotho (Reading Knowledge)
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| Swahili (Reading Knowledge)
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| Java (basic programming)
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| Python (basic programming)
Last updated: 7 November 2011 |
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