CURRICULUM VITAE

Curriculum Vitae

Lynn M. Santelmann, Ph.D.
April, 2002
Assitant Professor, Applied Linguistics
Portland State University
santelmannl@pdx.edu

Education and Professional Experience Grants/Grant Applications

Publications
Referreed
Other Current Research
Manuscripts under Review
Manuscripts in Preparation
Current Projects

Presentations
Conference
Invited Teaching and Service Teaching Thesis Service
University and Professional Service

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Linguistics, minor in Cognitive Science, August 1995.
M.A. in Linguistics, Cornell University, 1992.
B.A. in German, summa cum laude, minor in Foreign Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1989.
DISSERTATION
The Acquisition of Verb Second Grammar in Child Swedish, Cornell University, Advisors: Wayne Harbert, Ph.D., Barbara Lust, Ph.D., John Bowers, Ph.D.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Positions

1998- Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland Oregon.

1999- Co-Editor for Annual Review of Language Acquisition from John Benjamins.
Other editors: Clara Levelt, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen

Other Positions

Spring 2000 Guest Professor, Department of English, Freiburg Universität, Freiburg Germany.

1997-1998 Post-doctoral Fellow, Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison.Research on communication and language development in children with developmental disabilities.

1995-1997 Post-doctoral Fellow, Spoken Language Training Grant, Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo. Research on early speech perception, processing, psycholinguistics, and adult speech perception.

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PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS/BOOKS
Santelmann, L., Berk, S., Austin, J., Somashekar, S. & Lust, B. (in press). A Continuity Account of English Subject-auxiliary Inversion in the Acquisition of Yes/no Questions: Dissociating Movement and Inflection." Journal of Child Language.
Santelmann, L. (1999). The power of crosslinguistic analysis: A tool for developing explanatory models of human language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(6).
Santelmann, L. (1999). The Acquisition of Verb Movement and Specifiers in Child Swedish. In Adger, D., Pintzuk, S., Plunkett, B. & Tsoulas, G. (eds). Specifiers: Minimalist Approaches. (pp. 271-299). Oxford University Press.
Santelmann, L., Sussman, J. & Chapman, K. (1999) "Discrimination and identification of middorsum palatal stops." Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal, 36(3):233-42.
Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P. (1998) Sensitivity to Discontinuous Dependencies in Language Learners: Evidence for Processing Limitations. Cognition, 69: 105-134.
Santelmann, L. (1993) The Distribution of Double Determiners in Swedish: Den support in D^o.Studia Linguistica 47(2), 155-176.
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Santelmann, L. (2000). IPA Bingo. Cascadilla Press, Medford, MA. Instructional game for teaching students the International Phonetics Alphabet.
Santelmann, L., Berk, S. & Lust, B. (2000). Assessing the Strong Continuity Hypothesis in the Development of English Inflection: Arguments for the Grammatical Mapping Paradigm. In Billery, Roger (Ed.), Proceedings of the XIX West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (pp. 439-452). Medford, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Tincoff, R., Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P. (2000). Auxiliary verb learning and 18-month-olds' acquisition of morphological relationships. Proceedings of the 24^thAnnual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development,Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L. (2000). Developing student learning outcomes and explicit grading criteria: Tools for student assement and teacher reflection. Faculty Focus, 8(1). Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University.
Santelmann, L. (1998). The Acquisition of Definite Determiners in Child Swedish. In the Proceedings of the 22^nd Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P. (1998). 18-Month-Olds' Sensitivity to Relationships between Morphemes. In the Proceedings of the 22^nd Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L. (1997) Wh-question formation in early Swedish: an argument for continuity, CP and operators. in Yamakoshi, Someshakar, Blume & Foley, eds. Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics.
Santelmann, L., Jusczyk, P. (1997) What discontinuous dependencies reveal about the learner's processing window. Proceedings of the 21^st Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L., Houston, D. & Jusczyk, P. (1997) 7.5 month-olds segmentation of multi-syllabic words in fluent speech. Proceedings of the 21^st Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.Cascadilla Press.
Postman, Whitney, Foley, Claire, Santelmann, Lynn & Lust, Barbara. (1997). Evidence for Strong Continuity: New Experimental Results of Children's Acquisition of VP-Ellipsis and Bound Variable Structures. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 1997, 31, 327-344.
Santelmann, L. (1995) Topicalization, CP and Licensing in the Acquisition of Swedish,Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
Boser, K., Santelmann, L., Barbier, I. & Lust, B. (1995) Grammatical Mapping from UG to Language Specific Grammars: Deriving Variation in the Acquisition of German, Dutch and Swedish. Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Santelmann, L. (1994) Evidence for NegP and Object Shift in German. in Howard Grabois, David Parkinson and Deborah Yeager, eds., Cornell Working Papers in Linguistics, 154-182.
Santelmann, L. (1992) Den-support: An analysis of double determiners in Swedish. in A. Holmberg, ed. Papers from the workshop on the Scandinavian noun phrase, Department of General Linguistics, University of Umeå, Report 32: 100-118.
Boser, K. Lust, B., Santelmann, L. & Whitman, J.(1992) The Syntax of CP and V2 in Early Child German (ECG): The Strong Continuity Hypothesis. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. GLSA, 22:51-66.
VOLUMES CO-EDITED
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives, volume 1: Heads, Projections and Learnability, (1994) ed. B. Lust, M. Suñer, J. Whitman, co-editors S. Flynn, S. Kapur, I. Barbier, K. Boser, C. Foley, Z. Nuñez del Prado, E. Rubin, L. Santelmann, J. Toribio.
Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives, volume 2: Binding, Dependencies and Learnability, (1994) ed. B. Lust, G. Hermon, J. Kornfilt, , co-editors S. Flynn, S. Kapur, I. Barbier, K. Boser, C. Foley, Z. Nuñez del Prado, E. Rubin, L. Santelmann, J. Toribio.
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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES (REVIEWED ABSTRACTS)
Santelmann, L. (2002). Tracking Dependent Morphemes in Parental Speech: A Cross-linguistic Examination of Infants' Early Processing Requirements. Paper presented at the joint meeting of SRCLD/IASCL, Madison, WI, July 21, 2002.
Connors, P. & Santelmann, L. (2000). Facilitating English bound-morpheme production in oral deaf six- to thirteen-year-olds: intervention using speech and facial animation technologies. Paper presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics conference, March 11, 2000.
Santelmann, L., Berk, S. & Lust, B. (2000). Auxiliaries, Features and the Grammar of Inversion in the Acquisition of English Yes/No Questions. Paper presented at West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, February 4, 2000.
Tincoff, R., Santelmann, L. M., & Jusczyk, P. W. (1999). Auxiliary verb learning and 18-month-olds' acquisition of morphological relationships. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 6, 1999.
Santelmann, L. (1999). The Acquisition of Determiners in Child Swedish: Interactions in Prosodic and Syntactic Constraints. Paper presented at Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition. Potsdam, Germany, September 11, 1999.
Tincoff, R., Santelmann, L. M., & Jusczyk, P. W. (1999). 18-month-old's tracking of morpheme relationships: further evidence of limitations in processing. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April 1999.
Santelmann, L. (1997) The Acquisition of Definite Determiners in Child Swedish. Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, November 7, 1997.
Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P. (1997) 18-Month-Olds' Sensitivity to Relationships between Morphemes. Boston University Conference on Child Language Development, November 8, 1997.
Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P.(1997) Infants' sensitivity to discontinuous dependencies: evidence for early processing limitations. LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Postman, W., Foley, C. Santelmann, L. & Lust, B. (1997) Assessment of children's knowledge of inflection and VP ellipsis. LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Santelmann, L., Jusczyk, P. (1996) What discontinuous dependencies reveal about the learner's processing window. Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Santelmann, L., Houston, D. & Jusczyk, P. (1996) 7.5 month-olds segmentation of multi-syllabic words in fluent speech. Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Santelmann, L. (1996) Subject initial clauses as IP: evidence from child Swedish. What Children Have to Say about Linguistic Theory (WCHTSALT), Utrecht.
Santelmann, L. (1996) The acquisition of spec-head relationships in child Swedish: evidence for UG and language specific effects. Specifiers Conference, York.
Santelmann, L., Berk, S., Austin, J., Postman, W., Somesaker, S. & Lust, B. (1996) Dissociating movement and inflection: a continuity account of subject-aux inversion.Linguistic Society of America, San Diego, CA.
Grabois, H. & Santelmann, L. (1995) Accessing language knowledge: a reaction-time & grammaticality judgment experiment.Second Language Research Forum, Ithaca, NY.
Santelmann, L. (1995)Missing wh-words in child Swedish: syntactic development as integration of language specific factors. invited talk, Cognitive Studies, University at Buffalo.
Santelmann, L. (1995)Missing question words and the syntax of operators in child Swedish,Linguistic Society of America, New Orleans, LA.
Santelmann, L. (1994) Topicalization, CP and licensing in the acquisition of Swedish. Presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Boser, K., Santelmann, L., Barbier, I. & Lust, B. (1994) Grammatical mapping from UG to language specific grammars: deriving variation in the acquisition of German, Dutch and Swedish. Presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Santelmann, L. (1994) Early wh-questions: Evidence for CP from Child Swedish. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Santelmann, L. (1992)Den Support: An analysis of Double Determiners in Swedish. Workshop on the Scandinavian DP, Umeå, Sweden.
Boser, K., Lust, B., Santelmann, L., & Whitman, J. (1991) The theoretical significance of auxiliaries in German. Boston University Conference on Child Language Development.
Boser, K. Lust, B., Santelmann, L. & Whitman, J. (1991) The syntax of CP and V2 in early child German (ECG): The strong continuity hypothesis. North East Linguistic Society, University of Delaware.
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PROFESSIONAL AND INVITED TALKS
Santelmann, L. (2002). Cross-linguistic implications of studies on infants’ sensitivity to syntax. Paper presented at invited symposium in memorium to Peter W. Jusczyk, International Congress of Infant Studies, Toronto, Ontario, April 18, 2002.
Santelmann, L. (2000). Cross-linguistic Implications of Processing Limitations in Acquiring Syntactic Relationships, Invited talk, University of Delaware, December 10, 2000.
Santelmann, L. (2000). Infants' processing of discontinuous dependencies: Implications for processing space and lexical learning. Invited talk, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany, May 25, 2000.
Santelmann, L. (1997) Experimental evidence for processing limitations in the acquisition of grammar. Invited colloquium. University of Iowa, November 21, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997) The development of speech perception, Invited lecture, Portland State University, November 18, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997) The role of processing in the acquisition of relationships among morphemes, Invited talk, Portland State University, November 17, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997) The role of processing vs. grammar in early language acquisition. Invited lecture. MIT, Course on First and Second Language Development, April 16, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997) Wh-Questions With Missing Wh-Words in Child Swedish: Linguistic Factors Influencing Grammatical Development. Invited talk. University of California Irvine, March, 13, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997)Experimental Evidence for the Influence of Processing Limitations in Grammatical Development. Invited talk. University of California Irvine, March, 12, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1997) Experimental Evidence for Processing Limitations: Implications for the Acquisition of Grammar. Invited talk. University of Southern California, March, 5, 1997.
Santelmann, L. (1996) The acquisition of subject-verb inversion in Swedish and English. invited Colloquium talk, Department of Linguistics, SUNY Buffalo.
Santelmann, L. (1993) Some remarks on the acquisition of topicalization. Invited talk to the Linguistics Department at the University of Lund, Sweden.
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HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
AAHE/Carnegie Foundation Grant for Scholarship of Teaching Project, Fall 2000, $500.
German Academic Exchange Service, Grant, "German Parents' Production of Auxiliary Verb-Main Verb Relationships in Speech to Toddlers," Summer 2000, ~$5500 (10,200 DM).
Faculty Development Grant (with Donna Boudreau, Speech & Hearing) to produce video documenting stages of language development, Spring, 2000, ~$900.
Faculty Development Grant, Portland State University, "Parents' Production of Auxiliary Verb-Main Verb Relationships in Speech to Toddlers" 1999-2000, $6000.
Teaching with Technology Pedagogy Institute, Summer 1999.
Fulbright Graduate Fellowship for Study in Sweden 1992-1993 ~$15,000
Fulbright/Roth-Thomson Travel Grant to Sweden, 1992.
P.E.O. Scholar Award, for Dissertation Research, 1994.
GRANTS UNDER REVIEW
Language production and sensitivity to grammatical relationships in infancy, submitted to National Institutes of Health, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, February 1, 2000: Amount requested: $100,000
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CURRENT RESEARCH
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Santelmann, L. "Wh-questions in early Swedish." Manuscript under review for The Acquisition of Swedish, G. Josefsson, C. Platzack, and G. Håkansson, eds. John Benjamins.
Santelmann, L., Houston, D. & Jusczyk, P. "7.5 month old infants' segmentation of multisyllabic words in fluent speech. Manuscript under review for Cognitive Psychology.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Santelmann, L. Tucker, M., & Sussman, J. "Training Listeners to Identify Middorsum Palatal Stops." Unpublished ms., Portland State University and SUNY Buffalo, In preparation for submission to Journal of Speech & Hearing Research.
Santelmann, L. Goodman, M., & Jusczyk, P. "Infants' Acquisition Suffixes and Prefixes." Portland State University, SUNY Buffalo, and Johns Hopkins University. In preparation for submission to Speech and Language.
Tincoff, R., Santelmann, L., Jusczyk, P. "Infants' Sensitivty to Variation in Morphosyntactic Relationships"
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Sensitivity to discontinuous verb forms in German-speaking 18-month-olds, with Barbara Hoehle and Jürgen Weissenborn, Potsdam University.
Sensitivity to noun gender agreement in Spanish-speaking 18-month-olds, with Rochelle Newman, University of Iowa.
Parental production of discontinuous dependencies in English.
Parental production of discontinuous dependencies in German.
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TEACHING AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
COURSES TAUGHT
Introduction to Language (for non-majors)
Introduction to Linguistics
First Language Acquisition
Psycholinguistics
Syntax
Seminar: Language Acquisition and Language Change
Seminar: Childhood Second Language Acquisition
GUEST LECTURES
Second Language Acquisition, Fall 2000
Research Design (Ling 560), 1998 - 2001
Applied Linguistics (Ling 435/535), Spring 1999
Research Design (SpHr), Winter 1999 - Winter 2001
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THESIS COMMITTEES: CHAIR
Completed
Judi Barr: A comparison of child direction speech of traditional dads with that of stay-at-home dads.
Leslie Boyd: A Bahktinian Analysis of 3rd graders' writing
Amanda Franzoni: Acquisition of French Syntax in an Immersion Program: Implications for Universal Grammar and L1 Transfer in Child Second Language Acquisition
Carey Myles: Perceptions of literacy and language in bilingual families
Hilary Williams: The effects of memorizing Thai vocabulary words in semantic and thematic sets.
Troy West: L1 Pleasure Reading and L2 Reading Comprehension.
In progress
Judy Burraston: Verb input and learning in Stage II and Stage III.
Marianne Cartwright: Access to implicit grammar by patients with aphasia and low-level ESL learners: A comparison
Pam Connors: Using computer-based technology to train oral-deaf students on inflectional morphology
Erika Heslin: Learning styles and ESL student satisfaction
Sook Kim: topic to be determined
Michele Lee: topic to be determined
Miranda Novash: Language choice/use in German Immersion school
Yoko Ogura: ESL learners' perceptions of group work
Jessica Sund: Topic to be determined (Assessing subsection of Woodcock-Muñoz assessment)
THESIS COMMITTEES:
SECOND READER
Jennifer Baran
Shane Burchell
Eva Francis
Brooke Kavanaugh
Judith Newman
Alice Tarachow
THESIS COMMITTEES:
OUTSIDE READER
Debra Childs
Sarah Hoff
Kami Beaulieu
Jennifer Cullen
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UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE AND RELATED SERVICE
Departmental
Departmental Graduate Committee, 2001-
Departmental Promotion & Tenure Committee, 1998-2001
Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2000-
Departmental Search Committee, 2000
Departmental ad hoc committee on computer lab, 1998
Outside Department
Member of the OUS German Executive Board, 2000-
Member of the Child and Family Studies Consortium, 1998-
Advisor for Human Development Concentration, CFS Major, scheduled for 2002
PROFESSIONALLY-RELATED SERVICE
Ad hoc reviewer of book proposals for Blackwell Publishers
Ad hoc reviewer for journals:Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, Syntax.
Reviewer of conference abstracts for: Society for Research in Child Development, 2000;Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), 1999; Second Language Research Forum, 1995; Generative Linguistics of the Old World Workshop, Lund University, 1993.
Session Chair, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics, 2000.
Co-editor of the Proceedings of SALT IV (Semantics and Linguistic Theory IV).
Organizing Committee for the Symposium on Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition, Cornell University, May 1992.
Secretary/Treasurer, Cornell Linguistics Circle, 1991-1992.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Research Team 1999-
PSU Mentoring program, 1999-2000
Teaching and Technology Pedagogy Institute, Summer 1999, focus on Web-CT course development
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Linguistic Society of America.
American Association of Applied Linguistics
Society for Research in Child Development
American Association of University Professors
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Education and Professional Experience	Grants/Grant Applications
Publications Referreed Other	Current Research Manuscripts under Review Manuscripts in Preparation Current Projects
Presentations Conference Invited	Teaching and Service Teaching Thesis Service University and Professional Service

1998-	Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland Oregon.
1999-	Co-Editor for Annual Review of Language Acquisition from John Benjamins. Other editors: Clara Levelt, Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen

Spring 2000	Guest Professor, Department of English, Freiburg Universität, Freiburg Germany.
1997-1998	Post-doctoral Fellow, Waisman Center on Mental Retardation and Human Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison.Research on communication and language development in children with developmental disabilities.
1995-1997	Post-doctoral Fellow, Spoken Language Training Grant, Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY Buffalo. Research on early speech perception, processing, psycholinguistics, and adult speech perception.