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Email:	carol@bu.edu
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Office phone:	617-353-6218
Fax:	617-353-6218
Office number:	101
Office address:	621 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215
Office hours:	Fall 2009 TBA

Carol Neidle

Professor of Linguistics and French

Coordinator of the Undergraduate Linguistics Program

Education

• BA, Yale College
• MA, Middlebury College
• PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research

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.