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In Memoriam

  • Bruce Fraser

    Professor Emeritus, School of Education and the former Applied Linguistics Program

    pragmatics and discourse markers, forensic linguistics, discourse analysis

  • Jacqueline Liederman

    Professor Emerita, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • Paula Menyuk

    Professor Emerita, School of Education and the former Applied Linguistics Program

    language development, literacy, developmental language disorders

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