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Jean L. Crawford
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

	Major: L1 acquisition (acquisition of the passive, acquisition of Bantu), event structure, morphology and syntax (passive, causatives, relationship between applicative and perfective)
	Minor: L2 acquisition, literacy, aphasia, first language attrition, Japanese, Bambara

EDUCATION

Present	University of Connecticut Doctoral program in Linguistics
2004	Boston University MA in Applied Lingustics MA Thesis: The Acquisition of the Sesotho passive: Reanalyzing a counterexample to Maturation
1998	University of Georgia BA in International Business with specialization in Finance Minor in French

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS

2005-present	Pre-doctoral Fellowship University of Connecticut
2004	NSF Student Travel Grant 1st Annual GALANA, University of Hawai'i
2002	Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship Boston University African Studies Center
2001	African Studies Fellowship Boston University African Studies Center

RESEARCH POSITIONS

2009-10	Research Assistant Snedeker Lab, Laboratory for Developmental Studies Harvard University
2004	Visiting Student Wexler Ab/Normal Language Research Laboratory
2003	Experimenter Metalinguistic Awareness tests for Arabic-English Bilingual and English Monolingual Children Dissertation Research of Mohammed Al-Dossari, Boston University
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
2001	Experimenter The Effects of Joint Attention and Newness on Argument Realization. Boston University Program in Applied Linguistics Principal Investigator: Shanley Allen

PRESENTATIONS

2008	Sesotho passives: The Long and Short of It 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2, 2008
2008	Sesotho passives: Evidence for Maturation (with Christopher Hirsch) 3rd Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North American (GALANA) conference University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT September 5, 2008
2008	Acquisition of Causatives and Applicatives: The Case of Child Sesotho (updated) (with William Snyder) IASCL conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 29, 2008.
2008	Acquisition of Causatives and Applicatives: The Case of Child Sesotho (with William Snyder) 3rd Acquisition of African Languages Conference Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. January 21, 2008
2007	Japanese children's knowledge of causation and event structure Poster presented at the Nanzan-UConn-Cambridge-Hyderabad-Siena Consortium Nagoya, Japan, February 2007
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.
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.

PUBLICATIONS

2009	J. Crawford, K. Otaki and M. Takahashi (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008). Boston: Cascadilla Press.
2009	Sesotho passives: The Long and Short of It. In J. Chandlee, M. Franchini, S. Lord and G-M. Rheiner (eds.) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. 109-120. Boston: Cascadilla Press.
2005	An adversity passive analysis of Sesotho child passives: Reanalyzing a counterexample to Maturation. In A. Brugos, M.R. Clark-Cotton and S. Ha (eds.) Supplement to the Proceedings of the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2009	ELS Language Centers, Cambridge, MA English instructor
2005-2008	University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Writing Associate, University Writing Center
2007	University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Section leader for Linguistics 101
2004-2005	Centro Latino de Chelsea, Chelsea, MA ESL Instructor
2004-2005	Language While You Work, Boston, MA Workplace ESL Instructor
2004	Tufts University, Somerville, MA Instructor, English Today Summer Institute
2002-2004	Intergenerational Literacy Project, Chelsea, MA Literacy Teacher
2002-2004	School of Theology, Boston University Coordinator, Writing Works Writing Center

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2007	Language Works Consultant, Court translation services (Bambara)
2004-2005	BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA Corpus annotation, Speech and Langauge Processing Division
TBA	United States Agency For International Development Language and Education Consultant, Women's Legal Rights Initiative
2000-2001	Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists, Boston University Development Coordinator/Grant Writer
1998-2000	US Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa Small Business Development Volunteer
1999	US Peace Corps, Mali, West Africa Technical Trainer

SERVICE

2008	Organizer/Student Coordinator, Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America 3 (GALANA 3) September 4-6, 2008
2008	President, Linguistics Club at UConn
2008	Coordinator, UConn-UMass-Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW) May 5, 2008
2008	Webmaster, Acquisition of African Languages Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa
2006-2008	Treasurer, Linguistics Club at UConn
2002-2004	Handbook Chair, Boston University Conference on Language Development (27th, 28th, 29th Annual)
2001-2002	Organizer, BU Graduate Student Conference in African Studies (9th and 10th Annual)
2000	Registration Chair, the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development

MEMBERSHIPS

	Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
	Linguistics Society of America
	International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
	Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity