January 18, 2006
Associate Professor, Applied Linguistics
Portland State University
Education and Experience Publications Presentations and Talks Current Projects and Grants Teaching and Advising Professional Service and Memberships
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.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Current Position
2004- present Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland Oregon.
Other Positions
1998-2004 Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Portland State University, Portland Oregon.
1999-2003 Co-Editor for Annual Review of Language Acquisition from John Benjamins. Other editors: Maaike Verrips, Frank Wijnen, Utrecht University.
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.
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.
Hoehle, B., Schmitz, M., Santelmann, L., & Weissenborn, J. (in press). The recognition of discontinuous verbal dependencies by German 19-month olds: Evidence for lexical and structural influences on chidren's early processing capacities. Language Learning and Development.
Houston, D., Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P.W. (2004). English-learning infants' segmentation of trisyllabic words from fluent speech. Language & Cognitive Processes.
Santelmann, L. "Wh-questions in early Swedish." (2004) The Acquisition of Swedish, G. Josefsson, C. Platzack, and G. Håkansson, eds. John Benjamins.
Santelmann, L., Berk. S., Austin, J. Someshakar, S., Lambert, K. & Lust, B. (2002) Continuity and development in the acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions. Journal of Child Language. 29(4), 813-840.
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 Do. Studia Linguistica 47(2), 155-176.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Santelmann, L. (2003). Infants' Processing of Relationships across Languages: Comparing English and German. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 704-715). Cascadilla Press.
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. In S. Catherine Howell, Sarah A. Fish, and Thea Keith-Lucas (Eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 726-737). Somerville, MA: 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 Annabel Greenhill, Mary Hughes, Heather Littlefield, and Hugh Walsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 651-662). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L. & Jusczyk, P. (1998). 18-Month-Olds' Sensitivity to Relationships between Morphemes. In Annabel Greenhill, Mary Hughes, Heather Littlefield, and Hugh Walsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 663-675). Somerville, MA: 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. In Elizabeth Hughes, Mary Hughes, and Annabel Greenhill, (Eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 506-514). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Santelmann, L., Houston, D. & Jusczyk, P. (1997) 7.5 month-olds segmentation of multi-syllabic words in fluent speech. In Elizabeth Hughes, Mary Hughes, and AnnabelGreenhill, (Eds.) Proceedings of the 21st Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 495-505). Somerville, MA: 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. In Dawn MacLaughlin and Susan McEwen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 499-510). Somerville, MA: 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. In Dawn MacLaughlin and Susan McEwen (Eds.) Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Child Language Development. (pp. 130-142). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
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.
PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES (REVIEWED ABSTRACTS)
Novash, M. & Santelmann, L. (2004). Language Choice in a German Immersion School. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, May 2004.
Santelmann, L. (2002). Infants' Processing of Relationships Across Languages: Comparing English and German. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 1, 2002.
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. Paper presented at the 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 childrens 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.
PROFESSIONAL AND INVITED TALKS
Santelmann, L. (2006). Is German really impossible to learn? Processing differences between German and English. Invited colloqium, University of Oregon Linguistics Department.
Santelmann, L. (2002). Cross-linguistic implications of studies on infants= sensitivity to syntax. Paper presented at the International Congress on 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.
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.
Tincoff, R., Santelmann, L., Jusczyk, P. "Infants' Sensitivty to Variation in Morphosyntactic Relationships"
Santelmann, L. Tracking Dependent Morphemes in Parental Speech: A Cross-linguistic Examination of Infants' Early Processing Requirements, in preparation for submission to Journal of Child Language
CURRENT PROJECTS
Parental production of discontinuous dependencies in English.
Parental production of discontinuous dependencies in German.
Word learning and sensitivity to morphology, with Tom Dietierch, PSU
Low level ESL learner's acquisition of inflectional morphology, with ESOL LabSchool, PSU
Second Language Learner’s Sensitivity to German Dependencies.
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.
Fulbright/Roth-Thomson Travel Grant to Sweden, 1992.
P.E.O. Scholar Award, for Dissertation Research, 1994.
COURSES TAUGHT
Ling 290: Introduction to Language (for non-majors)
Ling 299: Language and the Mind (for non-majors)
Ling 233: Language and the Mind
Ling 390: Introduction to Linguistics
Ling 407/507: Seminar: Morphology
Ling 410/510: Childhood Second Language Acquisition
Ling 410/510: Language Acquisition and Language Change
Ling 411/511: Syntax
Ling 433/533: Psycholinguistics
Ling 437/537: First Language Acquisition
Ling 438/538: Second Language Acquisition
Ling 4/580: Bilingualism
Ling 507: Thesis Writing
Ling 561: Research Methods: Quantitative Analysis
Ling 561: Research Methods: Transcript Analysis
GUEST LECTURES
Second Language Acquisition, Fall 2000, Research Design (Ling 560), 1998 - 2001, Applied Linguistics (Ling 435/535), 1998-2006
Research Design (SpHr), Winter 1999 - Winter 2001
ADVISING
THESIS COMMITTEES: CHAIR
Completed (21 current total)
Anderson, Bruce. (2005). Semantic category shifts in the English language : 1880 to 1980.
Anderson, Craig. (2005). Lesson Plans of Trained and Untrained Teachers in Korean Language Schools.
Barr, Judith. (2000). A comparison of child direction speech of traditional dads with that of stay-at-home dads.
Boyd, Leslie (2002.) Dialogism in creative writing : a Bakhtinian evaluation of third grade creative writing samples.
Burraston, Judith (2003). An investigation of input frequency and verb structure in parent and child speech.
Canton-Perez, Tori. (2005). A Comparative Case Study Of Medical Service Calls .
Cartwright, Marianne. (2002.) Comparison of grammaticality judgment task in two populations : persons with agrammatic aphasia and low-level second language learners.
Chavez, Sandy .(2005.) Attitutde toward biliteracy among students in a two-way immersion program.
Cheong, Sun Cheol. (2004.) Types and developmental progression of formulaic sequences used by Korean adult students.
Denies, Ann. (2005). Intepretation of Intonation by Vietnamese Speakers of English.
Franzoni, Amanda. (2001). A study in child second language acquisition : results from five- and six-year old children in an early French immersion program.
Greene, Trish. (2005). Parental Feelings toward Language Brokering by their Children.
Heller Tuason, Gwen. (2005). An Eye On Culture : A Critical Image Analysis Of ESL Picture Dictionaries.
Heslin, Erika. (2003). Investigating learning style preferences and program satisfaction in the intensive English language program at Portland State University
SookChe Kim (2003). How adult Korean speakers of English answer English negative questions and negative statements which are used to function as questions?.
Myles, Carey. (2001). Parent perceptions of family literacy practices and children's language use in bilingual families in an English dominant community
Novash, Miranda. (2003). The development of language choice in a German immersion school
Sund, Jessica. (2003). Word associations in Spanish-English bilinguals : an analysis of errors from the bilingual verbal abilities tests (BVAT)
Tashima, Yukiko. (2004). Teaching of Articles using the Binary System
Williams, Hilary. (2000). The effects of memorizing Thai vocabulary words in semantic and thematic sets.
West, Troy (2002). The influence of L1 pleasure reading on L2 reading proficiency.
UNIVERSITY GOVERNANCE AND RELATED SERVICE
Departmental
Departmental Graduate Committee, 2001-
Departmental Curriculum Committee, 2000-2004
Departmental Promotion & Tenure Committee, 1998-2001; 2004-
Departmental Search Committee, 2000
Departmental ad hoc committee on computer lab, 1998
Outside Department
Advisor for Human Development Concentration, CFS Major, 2002
Interim Appointment to Faculty Senate, 2002-2003
Member of HSRRC, IRB #1, 2001-present
Member of the Helen Gordon Advisory Board, 2002-2004
Member of the OUS German Executive Board, 2000-2001
Member of the Child and Family Studies Consortium, 1998-present
PROFESSIONALLY-RELATED SERVICE
EDITORIAL SERVICE
Member of the editorial board for Syntax, 2001-
REVIEWER
Ad hoc reviewer of book proposals for Blackwell Publishers
Reviewer for journals: Applied Linguistics, Child Development, Cognitive Science, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, Language Acquisition, Syntax.
Reviewer of conference abstracts for: Boston University Conference on Language Development, 2001, 2002, 2003; 2004; 2005; Society for Research in Child Development, 2000, 2002 (meets biennially); Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA), 1999, 2003; Second Language Research Forum, 1995; Generative Linguistics of the Old World Workshop, Lund University, 1993.
OTHER
Local Organizing Committee for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 2003-2004.
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, 1991-92
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Research Team 1999-2001.
PSU Mentoring program, 1999-2000.
Teaching and Technology Pedagogy Institute, Summer 1999, focus on Web-CT course development
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Association of Applied Linguistics
American Association of University Professors
Language Development Society
Linguistic Society of America.
Society for Research in Child Development