Carol NeidleProfessor of Linguistics and French
Director of the Linguistics Program
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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:
We have recently released: (1) a new Java version of SignStream®, for linguistic annotation and analysis of video data; and (2) a new version of our Web-based Data Access Interface (DAI 2). 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, the ASLLRP SignStream® 3 Corpus. DAI 2 also provides access to our new ASLLRP Sign Bank.
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).
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Fall 2018 (tentative) |
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Course number | Course title | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | Room | |
CAS LX 373 | The Structure of French: Phonology | A1 | Neidle | TR | 9:30-10:45 | TBA | |
(Conducted in French)
The sound system of standard French, with exploration of dialect variation in France, Canada, and other Francophone regions of the world. Questions about mental representation of linguistic information, processes of word formation, and language variation and change. Students discover linguistic regularities through frequent problem sets.
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[Meets with GRS LX 673; Also offered as CAS LF 503; Previously offered as CAS LF 503 "The Structure of French: Phonology"] | |||||||
Spring 2019 (tentative) |
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Course number | Course title | Section | Instructor | Days | Time | Room | |
CAS LX 250 | Introduction to Linguistics | A1 | Neidle | TR | 2-3:15 | TBA | |
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. [Prereq: none] | |||||||
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