SHANLEY ALLEN
Associate Professor
Education and Applied Linguistics
Chair, Department of Literacy and Language, Counseling and Development, SED
and
Core Faculty, Program in Applied Linguistics, GRS
Research Interests
Language acquisition and the development of grammatical competence, discourse, narrative, language disorders, Native American languages.
Selected Publications
Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R., Brown, A. & Ishizuka, T. (In press). Development of verbal and gestural expression of motion events in English and Turkish: How do co-speech gestures become language-specific? Developmental Psychology.
Allen, S.E.M., Skarabela, B. & Hughes, M. (In press). Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax. In H. Behrens (Ed.), Trends in corpus research: Finding structure in data. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. (2007). The future of Inuktitut in the face of majority languages: Bilingualism or language shift? Applied Psycholinguistics 28(3): 515-536
Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2007). Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production. Language and Cognitive Processes 22(8), 1212-1236.
Allen, S.E.M. (2007). Interacting pragmatic influences on children’s argument realization. In M. Bowerman & P. Brown (Eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability (pp. 191-210). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Allen, S.E.M., Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., Ishizuka, T. & Fujii, M. (2007). How language-specific is early syntactic packaging of Manner and Path? A comparison of English, Turkish, and Japanese. Cognition 102(1), 16-48.
Allen, S.E.M, Crago, M.B. & Pesco, D. (2006). The effect of majority language exposure on minority language skills: The case of Inuktitut. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 9(5), 578-596.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2006). A discourse-pragmatic analysis of subject omission in child English. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.293-304). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Allen, S.E.M. (2006). Formalism and functionalism working together? Exploring roles for complementary contributions in the domain of child null arguments. In R. Slabakova, S. Montrul, & P. Prévost (Eds.), Inquiries in linguistic development: In honor of Lydia White (pp. 233-255). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R. & Brown, A. (2005). How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities. Gesture 5(1-2), 219-240.
Zwanziger, E.E., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (2005). Investigating crosslinguistic influence in child bilinguals: Subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English. Journal of Child Language 32(4), 893-909.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schroder, H. (2003). Preferred argument structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech data. In J.W. Du Bois, L.E. Kumpf & W.J. Ashby (Eds), Preferred argument structure: Grammar as architecture for function (pp. 301-338). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H., Fish, S.A. & Crago, M.B. (2002). Patterns of code mixing in English-Inuktitut bilinguals. In M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston & S. Neuvel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (Vol. 2, pp. 171-188). Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistic Society.
Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). Verb base ellipsis in Inuktitut conversational discourse. International Journal of American Linguistics 68(2), 133-156.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). The role of joint attention in argument realization in child Inuktitut. In B. Skarabela, S.A. Fish & A.H.-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 620-630). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001). Early finiteness in Inuktitut: The role of language structure and input. Language Acquisition 9(1), 59-111.
Allen, S.E.M. (2001). The importance of discourse-pragmatics in acquisition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 4(1), 23-25.
Allen, S.E.M. (2000). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument representation in child Inuktitut. Linguistics, 38(3), 483-521.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Acquiring Inuktitut. In O. Taylor & L. Leonard (Eds.), Language acquisition across North America: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives (pp. 245-279). San Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.
Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Categories within the verb category: Learning the causative in Inuktitut. Linguistics 36(4), 633-677.
Allen, S.E.M. (1997). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in early null arguments: The Principle of Informativeness revisited. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition (pp. 10-15). Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.
Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M., & Hough-Eyamie, W.P. (1997). Exploring innateness through cultural and linguistic variation. In M. Gopnik (Ed.), The inheritance and innateness of grammars (pp. 70-90). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Aspects of argument structure acquisition in Inuktitut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1996). Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut. Journal of Child Language, 23(1), 129-155.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Building the case for impairment in linguistic representation. In M. L. Rice (Ed.), Toward a genetics of language (pp. 261-289). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
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