Jean L. Crawford
850 Massachusetts Ave. #1
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 501-5326
jeanerz [at] gmail [dot] com
http://jeanerz.com
RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Major: L1 acquisition (acquisition of the passive, acquisition of Bantu), Bantu morphology and syntax (passive, wh
questions, relationship between applicative and perfective), semantics, Bambara
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Minor: aphasia, first langauge attrition |
EDUCATION
| Present | University of Connecticut
Doctoral program in Linguistics
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| 2004 |
Boston University
MA in Applied Lingustics
MA Thesis: The Acquisition of the Sesotho passive: Reanalyzing a counterexample to Maturation
Principal Advisor: Paul Hagstrom
Second Reader/Advisor: Shanley Allen
Degree awarded: September 2004
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| 1998 | University of Georgia
BA in International Business with specialization in Finance
Minor in French
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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
| 2004 | NSF Student Travel Grant
1st Annual GALANA, University of Hawai'i
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| 2002 | Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship
Boston University African Studies Center
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| 2001 | African Studies Fellowship
Boston University African Studies Center
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RESEARCH POSITIONS
| 2004 | Visiting Student
Wexler Ab/Normal Language Research Laboratory
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| 2003 | Experimenter
Metalinguistic Awareness tests for Arabic-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children
Dissertation Research of Mohammed Al-Dossari, Boston University
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| 2001-2002 | Experimenter
Speech, Gesture, and Motion Event: A Crosslinguistic Developmental
Study.
Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics
Principal Investigators: Shanley Allen, Sotaro Kita, Asli Ozyurek
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| 2001 | Experimenter
The Effects of Joint Attention and Newness on Argument
Realization.
Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics
Principal Investigator: Shanley Allen
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PRESENTATIONS
| 2004 | "Adversity passives and Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to
Maturation."
Poster presented at the inaugural GALANA (Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition), Honolulu, Hawaii.
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| 2004 | "An adversity passive analysis of Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to
Maturation."
Poster presented at the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.
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| 2003 | "Syntactic homophones and the acquisition of the Sesotho passive: Reanalyzing a counterexample to Maturation."
Presented at BU Research Sharing Forum.
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| 2002 | "Maturation and the Early Acquired Passive." Presented at BU Research Sharing Forum.
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PUBLICATIONS
| To Appear | An adversity passive analysis of Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to
Maturation. Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2004-2005 | Centro Latino de Chelsea, Chelsea, MA
ESL Instructor
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| 2004 | Tufts University, Somerville, MA
Instructor, English Today Summer Institute
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| 2002-2004 | Intergenerational Literacy Project, Chelsea, MA
Literacy Teacher
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| 2002-2004 | School of Theology, Boston University
Coordinator, Writing Works Writing Center
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
| 20044-2005 | BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA
Corpus annotation, Speech and Langauge Processing Division
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| TBA | United States Agency For International Development
Language and Education Consultant, Women's Legal Rights Initiative
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| 2000-2001 | Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists, Boston University
Development Coordinator/Grant Writer
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| 1998-2000 | US Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa
Small Business Development Volunteer
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| 1999 | US Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa
Technical Trainer
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SERVICE
| 2002-2004 | Handbook Chair, Boston University Conference on Language Development
(27th, 28th, 29th Annual)
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| 2001-2002 | Organizer, BU Graduate Student Conference in African
Studies (9th and 10th Annual)
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| 2000 | Registration Chair, the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
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