Carol Neidle

Professor of Linguistics and French
Director of the Linguistics Program
 Carol Neidle
Email: carol@bu.edu
Web: http://ling.bu.edu/people/neidle
Web: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html
Office phone: 617-353-6218
Fax: 617-358-4641
Office number: Linguistics 101
Office address: Linguistics Program, 621 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Office hours: Fall 2017: T 11-12:30; R 2-3:30; or
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BA, Yale College
MA, Middlebury College
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professor Neidle teaches courses in general linguistics and French linguistics. Her research interests include syntactic theory and the syntactic structure of American Sign Language (ASL).

Professor Neidle is the Director of the American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project (ASLLRP). Funding from the NSF supports linguistic research on the syntactic structure of ASL, development of computational tools (including SignStream®, a MacOS application) to facilitate analysis of signed language and gesture, and collaborative research with computer scientists interested in the problem of sign language recognition. Through our National Center for Sign Language and Gesture Resources, several different types of experimental resources and analyzed data are made publicly available.

New software releases: A new Java version of SignStream®, for linguistic annotation and analysis of video data, has just been released (August 2017), with release of a new version of our Web-based Data Access Interface (DAI 2) to follow soon. Both of these tools include substantially expanded functionality relative to the previous versions and will allow access to a large new collection of linguistically annotated American Sign Language (ASL) data.

See this page for information about this research. Publications include The Syntax of American Sign Language: Functional Categories and Hierarchical Structure (MIT Press) and The Role of Case in Russian Syntax (Dordrecht: Kluwer).

Courses

Fall 2017
Course number Course title Section Instructor Days Time Room

CAS LX 372

French Phonetics

 web A1 Neidle TR 9:30-10:45 KCB 103
(Conducted in French) Students improve their pronunciation and aural comprehension by applying linguistic principles governing the articulation and distribution of French sounds, liaison, "mute e," and intonation. Written exercises reinforce theoretical points; oral exercises and audio and video recordings allow focus on individual difficulties. Includes readings from literary texts.
Important note: This class will meet in the Geddes Language Center (CAS 537) on the first two days of classes, 9/5/17 and 9/7/17.
[Prereq: 1 CAS LF course at the 300-level or higher; and CAS LX 250 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Note that CAS LX 250 can be taken concurrently.]
[Also offered as CAS LF 500]
Enrollment is limited, so that students can receive individual attention :-)