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Ph.D., University of Michigan |
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LSII 216 |
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(618) 453-3574 |
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(618) 453-3563
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Biosketch |
Usha Lakshmanan is Professor of Psychology at SIUC. Other positions she has held include: Institute Faculty at the 2003 Summer Institute of the Linguistic Society of America held at Michigan State University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (1989-1990) and Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Fall 2004). Her research interests include psycholinguistics, bilingualism, child first language acquisition (monolingual and bilingual), child second language acquisition, adult second language acquisition, as well as language and cognition. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Child Language, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Acquisition, and Second Language Research. She is the author of a book entitled Universal Grammar in Child Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins 1994). She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Second Language Research and she is co-editor (with Larry Selinker) of the 2001 special issue of Second Language Research entitled Explanations and Scientific Method in Second Language Research. |
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Selected Publications |
Recent Journal Articles & Book Chapters: Lakshmanan, U. (2006). Assessing linguistic competence: Verbal inflection in child Tamil. Language Assessment Quarterly, Special Issue, 3 (2) , 171-205 .
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