Judy Shepard-Kegl, PhD, NIC-M, SC:L, ED:K-12

  • Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus
Judy Shepard-Kegl

310 A-Wing Science Building, Portland Campus

Education

  • PhD, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985

Research Interests

Signed language research, neurolinguistics of both spoken and signed languages, neuroscience

Previous Experience: Full-time researcher in the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University (1990-1998). Taught in Linguistics and Psychology at Swarthmore College (1988-1990); Princeton University (1986-1988); Northeastern University (1981-1987); and Hampshire College (1977-1981).

Professional Service: Reviewer for the National Science Foundation, National Insitutes of Health, American Association of University Women, Australian Research Council, The Wellcome Trust, Engineering and Research Council Grants (England) and various linguistics, neurolinguistics and psychology journals.

Grant support: National Science Foundation, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health, Department of Education, among others.

Selected Publications

  • Books: The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure (MIT Press, 2000, co-authored with Carol Neidle, Dawn MacLaughlin, Ben Bahan, and Robert G. Lee); Bridges between Psychology and Linguistics: A Swarthmore Festschrift for Lila Gleitman , (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991, co-edited with Donna Jo Napoli), among others.
  • Articles: in LanguageBrain and LanguageBrain and CognitionAphasiologyStudia LinguisticaJournal of InterpretationJournal of EducationDiscourse ProcessesSign Language StudiesThe Journal of NeurolinguisticsInternational Journal of LexicographyRevue Quebecoise de LinguistiqueAmerican Journal of Computational Linguistics, and Nordic Journal of Linguistics, among others. Contributed to anthologies published by the MIT Press, Academic Press, D. Reidel, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Oxford University Press, John Benjamins, Cambridge University Press, and other academic publishers.
Judy Shepard-Kegl

310 A-Wing Science Building, Portland Campus

Education

  • PhD, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985

Research Interests

Signed language research, neurolinguistics of both spoken and signed languages, neuroscience