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Carol Neidle

Professor and Head of Linguistics
Professor of French
Dir. of Undergraduate Studies, RS Dept.

Email: carol@bu.edu
Web: http://www.bu.edu/asllrp/carol.html
Office phone: 617-353-6218
Fax: 617-358-4641
Office number: 101
Office address: 621 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
Office hours: MW 10:30-12.
Other times by appointment.

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.

Her 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).

Professor Neidle coordinates the undergraduate Linguistics Program.

Courses

Fall 2009
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LX 250 Foundations of Language A1

Neidle

 TR 2-3:30 LSE B01
Introduction to linguistics. Study of the fundamental properties that all languages share, and of how languages differ, with respect to structure (sound system, word formation, syntax), expression of meaning, acquisition, variation, and change; cultural and artistic uses of languages; comparison of oral, written, and signed languages. [No prerequisites.]
  • CAS LX 250 satisfies the Humanities Divisional Studies course requirement.
  • Students signing up for CAS LX 250 A1 should also sign up for one of the discussion sections (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, or S6).

Spring 2010
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LX 250 Foundations of Language A1

Neidle

 TR 11-12:30 TBA
Introduction to linguistics. Study of the fundamental properties that all languages share, and of how languages differ, with respect to structure (sound system, word formation, syntax), expression of meaning, acquisition, variation, and change; cultural and artistic uses of languages; comparison of oral, written, and signed languages. [No prerequisites.]
  • CAS LX 250 satisfies the Humanities Divisional Studies course requirement.
  • Students signing up for CAS LX 250 A1 should also sign up for one of the discussion sections (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, or S6).

Fall 2010
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LF 503 French Phonology A1

Neidle

 TR 11-12:30 TBA
(Conducted in French) Students study the organization of the sound system of standard French. Quebecois and Haitian creole will be considered briefly. Questions about the mental representation of linguistic information, processes of word formation and language variation and change will be discussed. Frequent problem sets will allow students to discover linguistic regularities. [Prereq CAS LX 250 and CAS LF 304 or consent of instructor. (Note: CAS LX 250 may be taken concurrently.)]

Spring 2011
Course number
with link to course Web site 		Course title
with link to course description 		Sec Instructor Days Time Room
CAS LX 250 Foundations of Language A1

Neidle

 TR 11-12:30 TBA
Introduction to linguistics. Study of the fundamental properties that all languages share, and of how languages differ, with respect to structure (sound system, word formation, syntax), expression of meaning, acquisition, variation, and change; cultural and artistic uses of languages; comparison of oral, written, and signed languages. [No prerequisites.]
A5

Neidle

 F 1-2 TBA
A5

Neidle

 F 1-2 TBA
S1

Neidle

 F 9-10 TBA
S2

Neidle

 F 10-11 TBA
S3

Neidle

 F 11-12 TBA
S4

Neidle

 F 12-1 TBA
S5

Neidle

 F 1-2 TBA
S6

Neidle

 F 2-3 TBA
  • CAS LX 250 satisfies the Humanities Divisional Studies course requirement.
  • Students signing up for CAS LX 250 A1 should also sign up for one of the discussion sections (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, or S6).
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