SHANLEY E. M. ALLEN
CURRICULUM VITAE
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Kaiserslautern
Erwin-Schrödinger-Strasse, Geb. 57
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany
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EDUCATION
 Ph.D., Linguistics, McGill University
Dissertation: Acquisition of some mechanisms of transitivity alternation in Arctic
Quebec Inuktitut (published as Allen 1996)
Supervisor: Lydia White
 M.A. Coursework, Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of Oregon
 B.A. (Great Distinction), Hispanic Studies, McGill University
1995
1987
1985
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern
 Elected Member of Senate, University of Kaiserslautern
 Professor (W3), University of Kaiserslautern
Psycholinguistics and Language Development Group, Faculty of Social Sciences
 Associate Professor (W2), University of Kaiserslautern
English Linguistics Group, Faculty of Social Sciences
 Chair, Department of Literacy, Language, Counseling & Development,
School of Education, Boston University
 Acting Director, Program in Applied Linguistics, Boston University
 Associate Professor, Boston University
Department of Literacy, Language, Counseling & Development; School of Education
Program in Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
 Assistant Professor, Boston University
Department of Developmental Studies and Counseling, School of Education
Program in Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
 Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Language Acquisition Group
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Language Acquisition (L1, L2, bilingual, crosslinguistic comparison, socialization)
 Morphosyntax (verb argument structure, argument realization, functional categories)
 Psycholinguistics (sentence processing, self-paced reading, priming, eye tracking)
 Gesture (gesture-speech interface, gesture development)
 Discourse and Narrative (information flow, temporality, development across ages)
 Research Methodology (research design, formalist vs. functionalist approaches, qualitative)
 Scientific Writing (how to write and publish journal articles, story line, logical flow)
 Native American Languages (Inuktitut, polysynthesis, culture and identity)
 Language Disorders (specific language impairment)
2014-2017
2014-2017
since 2012
2010-2012
2006-2010
spring 2005
2002-2010
1999-2002
1994-1998
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SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
 Mary R. Haas Award (for doctoral dissertation),
Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
 Max Bell Fellowship in Canadian and Northern Studies
 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
 Canadian Northern Studies Trust Studentship,
Association of Canadian Universities for Northern Studies
 Masters Fellowship, Fonds pour la formation des chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche
 Sir William MacDonald Entrance Scholarship, McGill University
1995
1993-1994
1989-1993
1988-1989
1988-1989
1981-1985
GRANTS
 German Science Foundation (AL 1886/1-1) - €20,000
International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children (ISBPAC)
PI
 German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (I-361-105.4-2014) €180,000
"It's all Hebrew to me!" - Perception of emotions in German and Hebrew speech cross-cultural, linguistic and second language aspects
Co-PI, with B. Ben-David (PI), T. Lachmann
 Speech-Language and Audiology Canada - $2,500 (CAD)
Adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Inuktitut
Co-PI, with C. Dench, N. Trudeau
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (435-2013-1297) $480,812 (CAD)
From signal to grammar in Cree: Breaking through grammatical opacity in first
language acquisition
Collaborator, with J. Brittain (PI), P. Branigan, C. Dyck, M. MacKenzie, Y. Rose,
M. Westergaard
 National Science Foundation (BCS-0548399) - $213,365 (USD)
Boston University Conference on Language Development 2007-2011
PI, with M.C. O'Connor
 National Institutes of Health (2 R13 HD42130-06) - $75,000 (USD)
Boston University Conference on Language Development
PI, with M.C. O'Connor
 National Science Foundation (BCS-0346841) - $169,061 (USD)
A Discourse-Pragmatic Analysis of Child Null Arguments in an ObligatoryArgument Language
PI
 National Science Foundation (BCS-0130353) - $117,343 (USD)
Boston University Conference on Language Development
PI
 National Institutes of Health (R13 HD42130-01) - $55,000 (USD)
Boston University Conference on Language Development
PI
 National Science Foundation (BCS-0119394) - $26,590 (USD)
Boston University Conference on Language Development
2016
2016-2018
2014-2015
2013-2018
2007-2011
2007-2011
2004-2006
2002-2007
2002-2006
2001-2002
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PI
 National Science Foundation (BCS-0002117) - $237,445 (USD)
A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study of Spatial Thinking and Speaking: What do
Spontaneous Gestures Reveal?
PI, with S. Kita, A. Özyürek
 Fonds pour la formation des chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche - $292,500 (CAD)
Functional categories in representation and development:The issue of impairment
Collaborator, with L. White (PI), M. Crago, N. Duffield, F. Genesee, H. Goad, E.
Thordardottir, P. Prévost
 United States Department of Education (T195B990069-01) - $702,006 (USD)
Bilingual Education: Training for All Teachers
PI, with C. Jenkins
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - $161,240 (CAD)
Functional and Formal Aspects of Child Bilingual Code-Mixing
Collaborator, with F. Genesee (PI)
 Fonds pour la formation des chercheurs et l'aide à la recherche - $195,000 (CAD)
Functional Categories, the Initial State and Development in Language Acquisition:
A Comparative Approach
Collaborator, with L. White (PI), M. Crago, N. Duffield, F. Genesee, H. Goad, G. Piggott
 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - $215,000 (CAD)
Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition in Aboriginal Communities:
Languages and Cultures in Contact
Co-investigator, with M. Crago (PI), F. Genesee, L. McAlpine, N. Spada
 Kativik School Board Research Council - $61,000 (CAD)
Northern Scientific Training Program, Government of Canada - $6,000 (CAD)
First Language Acquisition of Inuktitut
PI, with M. Crago
2000-2003
2000-2003
1999-2002
1999-2002
1997-2000
1995-1998
1989-1993
1989-1991
TEACHING
 Syntax (University of Kaiserslautern)
This course covers the foundations of a generative approach to syntax, for Masters students in both
Computer Science and Cognitive Science. Topics include syntax as a science, lexical vs. functional
categories, constituency, c-command, grammatical relations, drawing trees, X-bar theory, and theta roles.
 Linguistics and Language Processing (University of Kaiserslautern)
This course covers the foundations of language and linguistics as relevant to cognitive science, for
Masters students in Cognitive Science. Topics include speech perception, morphosyntax, reading,
bilingualism, language development, language processing, language disorders, and neurolinguistics.
 Language Development (University of Kaiserslautern)
This course covers the fundamentals of first and second language development for Masters students in
both Computer Science and Cognitive Science. Topics include speech perception, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
 Introduction to Linguistics (University of Kaiserslautern)
This course offers an introduction to contemporary linguistics as part of a minor for Masters students in
Computer Science. Topics include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
language acquisition, and language and the brain.
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 Scientific Writing and Publishing in English (University of Kaiserslautern)
This set of seminars focuses on writing articles in English for academic journals, and is targeted to
doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who are currently preparing articles for publication. Topics
include developing a story line, logical flow, identifying a journal, steps in the peer review and
publication process, style of English scientific writing, getting started and staying motivated, organization
of the article, concise and precise writing, and common grammar and phrasing problems in scientific
writing.
 Peer Critique in Scientific Writing (University of Kaiserslautern)
This seminar, offered for small groups of 5-10 (post)doctoral students, focuses on discussing and
critiquing participants’ article drafts based on principles of scientific writing learned in previous seminars.
 Research Logic and Research Design (University of Kaiserslautern)
This course provides a Masters-level introduction to the logic and design of research in the social
sciences. Topics include the history and focus of social science research; the principles of and steps in
social science research design; differences between quantitative and qualitative social science research;
and design issues related particularly to experiments, survey research, and field research including
observations and interviews. Students discuss relevant research articles, and design and carry out a group
research project.
 Cognitive Development and Language (Boston University)
This course, offered at the Masters and doctoral level, investigates the relationship between cognitive
development and language development in children. It addresses several theories of this relationship (e.g.
Piaget, Vygotsky, Chomsky, Whorf), and illustrates the application of these theories in two different areas
of development (word learning, theory of mind) using data from typical and atypical learners from
different language and cultural backgrounds. Students critically assess theory and research articles, give
oral presentations in an academic style, and apply course concepts in a review of literature relevant to
their own research and teaching interests.
 Introduction to Language and Language Acquisition (Boston University)
This course, offered at the senior undergraduate and Masters level for education majors with no
background in linguistics, combines an overview of the main aspects of language with an overview of the
basic patterns of first and second language acquisition in children. In each domain, the course focuses on
five areas: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Students learn the milestones of
language acquisition in each of the major areas of language, examine the role of cognitive development
and child-directed speech in language acquisition, investigate theoretical issues related to language
acquisition, gain hands-on experience by observing language learners and analyzing videos and
transcripts of child language, and consider ways in which the course material applies to classroom
situations.
 Introduction to Language and Linguistics (Boston University)
This course, offered at the senior undergraduate and Masters level, is an introduction to contemporary
linguistics. Topics include phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language variation,
and first- and second-language acquisition. The course also covers applications of various branches of
linguistics to education, including issues of different cultures in the classroom and the role of language in
education.
 Language Acquisition (Boston University)
This course, offered at the senior undergraduate and Masters level for students with a background in
linguistics, investigates the basic patterns of language acquisition in the areas of phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. The course content is similar to that of Introduction to Language and
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Language Acquisition, but it covers each topic in more depth and focuses more on research skills than on
classroom applications.
 Qualitative Research Methods (Boston University)
This course, offered at the doctoral level, provides an overview of the philosophical, historical, and
practical bases of qualitative research methods and the research questions to which they are best applied.
Students practice basic skills in observation and interviewing as qualitative research methods, develop an
understanding of the range of ethical considerations involved in conducting research, become familiar
with a number of examples of research using qualitative methods, and develop skills in critiquing this
research. Students apply this knowledge by carrying out a project using qualitative research methods:
conceptualizing a research question, determining the research design, gaining entry to a research site,
collecting and analyzing the data, and writing up the findings.
 Linguistics Applied to Language Learning (McGill University)
This course, offered at the senior undergraduate level for linguistics majors, investigates the basic patterns
of language acquisition in the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
Students learn the milestones of language acquisition in each of the major areas of language, consider the
merits of various theories of language acquisition on the basis of research findings, and explore the
acquisition of one aspect of language in an original research project.
 Cultivating Language and Thought (McGill University)
These courses, offered as part of the McGill University Teacher Training Program in Inuit, Mohawk and
Cree communities, provide an overview of the development of language and thought in preschool and
school-aged children. Students learn the milestones of language and cognitive development, examine the
role of cognitive development and child-directed speech in language acquisition, investigate theoretical
issues related to language acquisition, and consider ways in which the course material applies to
classroom situations. Material relevant to aboriginal contexts is provided as much as possible.
 CHILDES Child Language Transcription and Analysis System (McGill University)
Introduction to child language database and related transcription and analysis tools, with exercises to
practice coding and analyzing data. For various classes of graduate students in linguistics and language
disorders.
SUPERVISION AND MENTORING
Post-Doctoral Supervision
 Leigh Fernandez (2015-present), PhD University of Potsdam
 Maialen Iraola Azpiroz (2015-present), PhD University of Konstanz and University of the Basque
Country
 Kalliopi Katsika (2011-present), PhD University of Thessaloniki
 Neiloufar Family (2011-present), PhD École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
 Gunnar Jacob (2011), PhD University of Dundee
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism
Doctoral Supervision – Committee Chair
 Philipp Blandfort, Cognitive Science, University of Kaiserslautern (in progress)
Dissertation: Intrinsic and extrinsic image to text transformation
 Alina Kholodova, Psycholinguistics, University of Kaiserslautern (in progress)
Dissertation: Cross-linguistic priming in German-English bilingual children
 Mary Hughes, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2010)
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Dissertation: Integrating two approaches: A discourse-pragmatic and grammatical account of null
subjects in child English
Current position: Lecturer, School of Education, Boston University
 Samantha Kulatilake, Literacy and Language, Boston University (2008)
Dissertation: A multiple case study analysis of immersion education in Sri Lanka
Current position: Professor of English, Humber College, Toronto, Canada
 Andrea Hellman, Literacy and Language, Boston University (2008)
Dissertation: The limits of eventual lexical attainment in adult-onset second language acquisition
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Missouri State University
 Elizabeth Zwanziger, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2008)
Dissertation: Variability in L1 and L2 French WH-interrogatives: The roles of communicative function,
WH-word, and metalinguistic awareness
Current position: Associate Professor, University of Northern Iowa
 Amanda Brown, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2006)
Dissertation: Bilateral influence in bilingual language systems: Evidence from speech and gesture
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Syracuse
University
 Barbora Skarabela, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2006)
Dissertation: Social cognition in early syntax: Joint attention in argument realization in child Inuktitut
Current position: Researcher, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh
 Luz Vasquez, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2005)
Dissertation: Cross-linguistic influence in the speech of a simultaneous English-Spanish bilingual child
Current position: Professor, Department of English, University of Costa Rica
 Heather Littlefield, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2005)
Dissertation: Syntax and acquisition in the prepositional domain: Evidence from English for fine-grained
syntactic categories
Current position: Associate Academic Specialist, Program in Linguistics, Northeastern University
 Mohammed Al-Dossari, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2004)
Dissertation: An investigation of bilingual children’s metalinguistic awareness in two typologically
unrelated languages
Current position: Professor of Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences Department – English Division, King
Fahd Security College, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Payung Songyoo Cedar, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2003)
Dissertation: Transferability and translatability of idioms by Thai-speaking learners of English
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Western Languages, Naresuan University,
Phitsanulok, Thailand
 Andrea Zukowski, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2001)
Dissertation: Uncovering grammatical competence in Williams Syndrome
Current position: Research Associate, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Maryland at College Park
 Eiko Torii-Williams, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2000)
Dissertation: An analysis of Japanese”synonymous” adverbs and its pedagogical implications
Current position: Senior Lecturer, Department of Japanese, Wellesley College
Doctoral Supervision – Second Reader
 Enkeleida Kapia, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2010)
Dissertation: The role of syntax and pragmatics in the structure and acquisition of clitic doubling in
Albanian
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for English and American Studies, University of Hamburg
 Kristina Dahlen, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2007)
Dissertation: Aptitude, rehearsal and embodiment in foreign language vocabulary learning
Current position: Foreign Language Coordinator, Sharon Public Schools, Sharon, MA
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 Soledad Concha, Literacy & Language, Boston University (2007)
Dissertation: Local coherence in academic writing: An exploration of Chilean 12th grade students’
metalinguistic knowledge, writing process, and writing products
Current positions: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Alberto Hurtado
University; Associate Researcher, Centro Microdatos, University of Chile
 Catherine Howell, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2006)
Dissertation: Intensive vocabulary in low-level L2 classrooms: Vocabulary episodes and vocabulary
acquisition
Current position: Citizenship Instructional Advisor, Literacy Source, Seattle, WA
 Miki Sumitomo, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2005)
Dissertation: Language of emotion in Japanese and English caregiver speech
Current position: Professor, Languages Division, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA
 Elidea Bernardino, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2005)
Dissertation: What do Deaf children do when classifiers are not available? The acquisition of classifiers
in verbs of motion and verbs of location in Brazilian Sign Language
Current position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Molly Collins, Curriculum & Teaching, Boston University (2004)
Dissertation: ESL preschoolers’ English vocabulary acquisition and story comprehension from story book
reading
Current position: Lecturer, Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
 Kun-Lin Shu, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2004)
Dissertation: The acquisition of aspect markers by Mandarin-speaking children
Current position: Assistant Professor, Minghsin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan
 Robert Littleton, Special Education, Boston University (2004)
Dissertation: The modifiability of language input with toddlers with expressive language delay: A study of
a team approach to parent training
Current position: Executive Director, Evergreen Center, Milford, MA
 Sara Hamerla, Developmental Studies, Boston University (2002)
Dissertation: The revising strategies of skilled bilingual fifth-grade writers
Current position: ESL Teacher, Brophy Elementary School, Framingham, MA
 Mileidis Gort, Developmental Studies, Boston University (2001)
Dissertation: Bilingual writing development of English-dominant and Spanish-dominant first-graders in a
two-way program
Current position: Associate Professor, School of Education, University of Miami
 Pilar Duran, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2001)
Dissertation: A psycholinguistic and interactional approach to second language acquisition: A
comparison of the use of English verbs by immigrants in spontaneous and in guided learning
Current position: Global Sales Director, Oddizzi Computer Software, London, UK
Doctoral Supervision – Invited External Committee Member
 Naomi Shin, Linguistics, City University of New York (2006)
Dissertation: The development of null vs. overt subject pronoun expression in monolingual Spanishspeaking children: The influence of continuity of reference
Current position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Spanish and Linguistics, University of New Mexico
 Mary Swift, Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin (2000)
Dissertation: The development of temporal reference in Inuktitut child language
Current position: Research Scientist, IBM, Littleton, MA
 David Parkinson, Cognitive Studies, Cornell University (1999)
Dissertation: The interaction of syntax and morphology in the acquisition of noun incorporation in
Inuktitut
Current position: Researcher, Natural Language Processing Group, Microsoft Corporation
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Masters Supervision – Committee Chair
 Lin Themelis, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2006)
Project: The development of connectives in narratives of children with autism
 Karen Meersohn, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2005)
Project: Phonological short-term memory and receptive vocabulary in bilingual children
 Luz Marina Vasquez, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2001)
Project: Language differentiation and the role of language mixing in young bilinguals: A case study of a
bilingual English/Spanish child
Current position: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Costa Rica
 Anthony Gregory, Applied Linguistics, Boston University (2000)
Project: The acquisition of desire verbs by children with autism and Down Syndrome
Current position: Speech language pathologist, Private practice
Bachelor Student Research Internships
 Nicolette Pire, Northeastern University (July – December, 2016)
 Hannah Powers, Northeastern University (January – June, 2016)
 Mary Elliot, Northeastern University (July – December, 2015)
 Elizabeth Dovenberg, Northeastern University (July – December, 2014)
 Kerry Isakson, Northeastern University (January – June, 2014)
 Lindsay Coffin, Northeastern University (July – December, 2013)
 Ian Brenckle, Northeastern University (January – June, 2013)
 Lisa Martinek, Northeastern University (July – December, 2012)
 Mark Calley, Northeastern University (January – June, 2012)
 Holly Thomann, Northeastern University (July – December, 2011)
Grade 9 Student Work Internships
 Celina Wiethan, Hohenstaufen Gymnasium (January 2016)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SERVICE
Editor
 Trends in Language Acquisition Research book series, John Benjamins
2009-2018
Associate Editor
 Journal of Child Language
 International Journal of American Linguistics
2006-2011
2002-2005
Editorial Board
 Journal of Child Language
 International Journal of Language Studies
 Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
 Applied Psycholinguistics
2012-2020
since 2011
2008-2013
2003-2007
Ad Hoc Reviewing
 Grants: Arts and Humanities Research Board (UK), Austrian Science Fund, Flanders Research
Foundation, German Research Foundation, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders (small grants panel), National Science Foundation (Linguistics, Developmental and Learning
Sciences), National University of Singapore, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Wellcome Trust
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 Journals: Algonquian Papers, Annual Review of Language Acquisition; Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition; Brain and Behavioral Sciences; Canadian Ethnic Studies; First Language; Inuit Studies;
Journal of Child Language; Journal of Speech-Language and Hearing Research; Language; Language
Acquisition; Language and Cogntive Processes; Language Learning and Development; Language,
Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools; Lingua; Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism; Linguistics;
The Linguistic Review
 Publishers: Cambridge University Press, McGill-Queens University Press, Oxford University Press,
Springer Verlag
 Conferences: American Association for Applied Linguistics, Boston University Conference
on Language Development, Conference on Acquisition and Processing in Head-Final Languages
(CAPHL), European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Generative Approaches to Language
Acquisition (GALA), Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition in North America (GALANA),
Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA), Generative Linguistics of the Old
World (GLOW), International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Society for Research on Child
Development, Western Conference on Linguistics (WECOL)
Visiting Scholar
 Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: 1999 (4 weeks); 2000 (2 weeks)
 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: 2000 (7 weeks); 2001 (1 week)
Scientific Writing Workshop Facilitator
 International Research Training Group in Physical Modeling for Virtual Manufacturing
Systems and Processes, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (16-hour workshop)
 Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany (16-hour workshop)
 “Fit for Science” Program, Office of Gender and Diversity, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany (8-hour workshop)
 Summer School, Grad.Life, University of Braunschweig, Germany (13-hour workshop)
 “Fit for Science” Program, Office of Gender and Diversity, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany (8-hour workshop)
 Summer School, Grad.Life, University of Braunschweig, Germany (13-hour workshop)
 Second Student Conference in Biology, University of Kaiserslautern (2-hr workshop)
 Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany (16-hour workshop)
 International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran (6-hr workshop)
 Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (2-hr workshop)
 Autumn School, Collaborative Research Center 926: Microscale Morphology of
Component Surfaces, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (6-hour workshop)
 Summer School, Grad.Life, University of Braunschweig, Germany (13-hour workshop)
 Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems, University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany (16-hour workshop)
 “Fit for Science” Program, Office of Gender and Diversity, University of ErlangenNürnberg, Germany (8-hour workshop)
 Summer School, Grad.Life, University of Braunschweig, Germany (13-hour workshop)
 Program in Applied Linguistics, Boston University, USA (2-hour workshop)
 International Research Training Group in Computer Graphics and Human-Computer
Interface, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany (9-hour workshop)
Conference Organization
 Co-organizer, International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and
Children, University of Kaiserslautern, April 14-15, 2016
Mar. 2016
Mar. 2016
May 2015
Sept. 2014
Jan. 2014
Oct. 2013
Oct. 2013
June 2013
May 2013
Jan. 2013
Oct. 2012
Sept. 2012
June 2012
Apr. 2012
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Feb. 2011
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 Faculty Advisor, Boston University Conference on Language Development
 Assistant Faculty Advisor, Boston University Conference on Language Development
 Organizing Committee Member, Workshop on “Crosslinguistic Perspectives on
Argument Structure: Implications for Learnability,” Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics, June 26-29, 1998
 Program Co-chair, Workshop on “Structure and Constituency in the Languages
of the Americas,” University of Manitoba, March 21-23, 1997
 Co-coordinator, Formal Colloquium Series, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Committees and Service - Internal
 Equal Opportunity Officer, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern
 Chair, Empirical Research Methods Search Committee, University of Kaiserslautern
 Member, Ethics Committee, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern
 Chair, School of Education Research Affinity Group, Boston University
 Chair, School of Education Faculty Expectations Committee, Boston University
 Chair, School of Education Graduate Research Curriculum Committee, BU
 Member, University Council Committee on Scholarly Activities and Libraries, BU
 Member, Faculty Council Committee on Research, Libraries and Support Services, BU
 Member, School of Education Faculty Retreat Planning Committee, Boston University
 Chair, Applied Linguistics Admissions Committee, Boston University
 Member, School of Education Personnel Committee, Boston University
 Member, Faculty Council Committee on Research, Libraries and Support Services, BU
 Representative, University Faculty Council, Boston University
 Chair, Special Education Search Committee, Boston University
 Member, Bilingual Education Search Committee, Boston University
 Member, Applied Linguistics Admissions Committee, Boston University
 Member, School of Education Academic Instruction Committee, Boston University
 Student Representative, Graduate Faculty Council, McGill University
Committees and Service - External
 Scientific Committee Member, 24th Annual European Conference on Second Language
Acquisition (EuroSLA), York, UK, September 3-6, 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 14-18, 2014
 Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on the Study of Child Language,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 14-18, 2014
 Scientific Committee Member, International Conference on the Acquisition of Referring
Expressions: Crossed Perspectives, Paris, France, October 25-26, 2013
 Invited Participant, “Bilingual Language Development Workshop” organized by the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the US Department
of Education, Washington, DC, April 22-23, 2004
 Assistant Treasurer, International Association for the Study of Child Language
 Executive Committee Member, International Association for the Study of Child Language
 Mentor, Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance, Linguistic Society of America
Professional Training Courses
 Participant, Bilingualism Summer School, Bangor University, Wales
 Participant, Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of New Mexico
 Participant, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (one-semester course),
Center for University Teaching and Learning, McGill University
 Invited Participant, Workshop on using the Child Language Data Exchange System
(CHILDES), Harvard University Graduate School of Education
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LANGUAGES
English (native), German (C1), French (B2), Spanish (B2), Dutch (B2), Inuktitut (B1)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 Canadian Linguistic Association
 German Linguistics Society
 International Association for the Study of Child Language
 Linguistic Society of America
 Society for Language Development
 Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
PUBLICATIONS
Allen, S.E.M., Dench, K., & Isakson, K. (In press). InuLARSP: An adaptation of the Language Assessment
Remediation and Screening Procedure for Inuktitut. In Ball, M.J., Crystal, D., & Fletcher, P. (Eds.),
Assessing grammar: Even more languages of LARSP. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Allen, S.E.M. (In press). Polysynthesis in the acquisition of Inuit languages. In Fortescue, M., Mithun, M.
& Evans, N. Handbook of Polysynthesis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Family, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2016). The role of constituent order and level of
embedding in cross-linguistic structural priming. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
Mozaffari Chanijani, S. S., Al-Naser, M., Bukhari, S. S., Borth, D., Allen, S. E. M., & Dengel, A. (2016).
An eye movement study on scientific papers using wearable eye tracking technology. Proceedings of
the 9th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking.
Serratrice, L. & Allen, S.E.M. (Eds.) (2015). The acquisition of reference. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Serratrice, L. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). Introduction: An overview of the acquisition of reference. In L.
Serratrice & S.E.M. Allen (Eds.), The acquisition of reference (pp. 1-24). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M., Hughes, M.E. & Skarabela, B. (2015). The role of cognitive accessibility in children’s
referential choice. In L. Serratrice & S.E.M. Allen (Eds.), The acquisition of reference (pp. 123-153).
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. & Dench, K. (2015). Calculating mean length of utterance for Eastern Canadian Inuktitut.
First Language, 35, 377-406.
Allen, S.E.M. (2015). Argument structure. In E. Bavin & L. Naigles (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Child
Language (2nd edition, pp. 271-297). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Family, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). The development of the causative construction in Persian child
language. Journal of Child Language, 42(6), 1337-1378.
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Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015). The incremental effect of discourse-pragmatic sensitivity on
referential choice in the acquisition of a first language. Lingua, 155, 43-61.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014). Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible word order
language: Evidence from Greek. In G. Kotzoglou, K. Nikolou, E. Karantzola, K. Frantzi, I.
Galantomos, M. Georgalidou, V. Kourti-Kazoullis, C. Papadopoulou & E. Vlachou (Eds.), Selected
Papers of the 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (pp. 715-726). Rhodos, Greece:
University of the Aegean.
Cavicchio, F., Brown, A., Furman, R., Allen, S., Özyürek, A. & Kita, S. (2014). Annotation of space and
manner/path configuration in bilinguals’speech and manual gestures. Proceedings of the 10th
International Workshop on Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Resources (pp. 25-28).
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014). Competing motivations in children's omission of subjects? The
interaction between verb finiteness and referent accessibility. In B. MacWhinney, A. Malchukov, & E.
Moravcsik (Eds.), Competing motivations in grammar and usage (pp. 144-162). Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Allen, S.E.M. (2014). Acquisition of argument structure. In P. Brooks & V. Kempe (Eds.), Encyclopedia of
language development (pp. 18-19). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013). The effect of discourse-pragmatic features on subject omission in
English. Journal of Pragmatics 56, 15-31.
Skarabela, B., Allen, S.E.M. & Scott-Phillips, T.C. (2013). Joint attention helps explain why children omit
new arguments. Journal of Pragmatics 56, 5-14.
Allen, S.E.M. (2013). The acquisition of ergativity in Inuktitut. In E.L. Bavin & S. Stoll (Eds.), The
acquisition of ergative structures (pp. 71-105). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M., & Ishizuka, T. (2010). Early links between iconic gestures and sound
symbolic words: Evidence for multimodal protolanguage. In A. D. M. Smith, M. Schouwstra, B. de
Boer & K. Smith (Eds.), The evolution of language: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference
(EVOLANG8) (pp. 429-430). Singapore: World Scientific.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010). How newness and joint attention work together in child Inuktitut:
Assessing discourse-pragmatic models of early argument realization. In K. Franich, K. Iserman, & L.
Keil, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp.
385-396). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Allen, S.E.M, Genesee, F.H, Fish, S.A & Crago, M.B. (2009). Typological constraints on code mixing in
Inuktitut-English bilingual adults. In N. Tersis & M.-A. Mahieu (Eds.), Variations on polysynthesis:
The Eskaleut languages (pp. 273-306). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. (2009). Argument structure. In E. Bavin (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (pp.
217-236). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R., Brown, A. & Ishizuka, T. (2008). Development of crosslinguistic variation in speech and gesture: Motion events in English and Turkish. Developmental
Psychology 44(4), 1040-1054.
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Allen, S.E.M., Skarabela, B. & Hughes, M. (2008). Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax. In
H. Behrens (Ed.), Corpora in language acquisition research: Finding structure in data (pp. 99-137).
Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. (2007). Relations between
syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production.
Language and Cognitive Processes 22(8), 1212-1236.
Allen, S.E.M. (2007). Interacting pragmatic influences on children’s argument realization. In M. Bowerman
& P. Brown (Eds.), Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability
(pp. 191-210). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Allen, S.E.M. (2007). The future of Inuktitut in the face of majority languages: Bilingualism or language
shift? Applied Psycholinguistics 28(3): 515-536.
Allen, S.E.M., Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., Ishizuka, T. & Fujii, M. (2007). How
language-specific is early syntactic packaging of Manner and Path? A comparison of English, Turkish,
and Japanese. Cognition 102(1), 16-48.
Allen, S.E.M, Crago, M.B. & Pesco, D. (2006). The effect of majority language exposure on minority
language skills: The case of Inuktitut. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
9(5), 578-596.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2006). A discourse-pragmatic analysis of subject omission in child English. In D.
Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller, Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development (pp. 293-304). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Furman, R., Ozyurek, A., & Allen, S.. (2006). Learning to express causation across languages: What do
speech and gesture patterns reveal? In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia & C. Zaller, Proceedings of the 30th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 190-201). Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press.
Allen, S.E.M. (2006). Formalism and functionalism working together? Exploring roles for complementary
contributions in the domain of child null arguments. In R. Slabakova, S. Montrul, & P. Prévost (Eds.),
Inquiries in linguistic development: In honor of Lydia White (pp. 233-255). Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Özyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Furman, R. & Brown, A. (2005). How does linguistic framing of
events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities. Gesture
5(1-2), 219-240.
Reprinted in: K. Liebal, C. Mueller, S. Pika (Eds.) Gestural communication in nonhuman and human
primates (pp. 199-219). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Zwanziger, E.E., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (2005). Investigating crosslinguistic influence in child
bilinguals: Subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English. Journal of Child Language 32(4),
893-909.
Brown, A., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S., Kita, S., Ishizuka, T. & Furman, R. (2005). Does event cognition
influence children’s motion event expressions?” Online Proceedings Supplement of the 29th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development. Available at: http://www.bu.edu/linguistics/
APPLIED/BUCLD/proc.html
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Allen, S.E.M. (2004). Is Modularity Matching correct or useful? Journal of Child Language 31(2), 463466.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2004). The context of non-affixal arguments in child Inuktitut: The role of
joint attention. In A. Brugos, L. Micciulla & C. Smith (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development (pp. 532-542). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (2003). Preferred argument structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous speech
data. In J.W. Du Bois, L.E. Kumpf & W.J. Ashby (Eds), Preferred argument structure: Grammar as
architecture for function (pp. 301-338). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. (2003). Review of Pathways to language: From fetus to adolescent by Kyra Karmiloff &
Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Journal of Child Language 30(1), 245-251.
Allen, S.E.M., Ozyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Turanli, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2003). Early speech about
manner and path in Turkish and English: Universal or language-specific? Proceedings of the 27th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (Vol. 1, pp. 63-72). Somerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press.
Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H., Fish, S.A. & Crago, M.B. (2002). Patterns of code mixing in EnglishInuktitut bilinguals. In M. Andronis, C. Ball, H. Elston & S. Neuvel (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th
Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (Vol. 2, pp. 171-188). Chicago, IL: Chicago
Linguistic Society.
Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). Verb base ellipsis in Inuktitut conversational discourse. International
Journal of American Linguistics 68(2), 133-156.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). The role of joint attention in argument realization in child Inuktitut.
In B. Skarabela, S.A. Fish & A.H.-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development (pp. 620-630). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002). Contexts of verbal inflection dropping in Inuktitut child speech.” In B.
Skarabela, S.A. Fish & A.H.-J. Do (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Boston University Conference
on Language Development (pp. 689-700). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
Özyürek, A., Kita, S., & Allen, S.E.M. (2001). Tomato man movies: Stimulus kit designed to elict manner,
path and causal constructions in motion events with regard to speech and gesture. Nijmegen, The
Netherlands: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Language and Cognition Group.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001). Early finiteness in Inuktitut: The role of language structure and input.
Language Acquisition 9(1), 59-111.
Allen, S.E.M. (2001). The importance of discourse-pragmatics in acquisition. Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition, 4(1), 23-25.
Allen, S.E.M. (2000). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument representation in child Inuktitut.
Linguistics, 38(3), 483-521.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Acquiring Inuktitut. In O. Taylor & L. Leonard (Eds.), Language
acquisition across North America: Cross-cultural and cross-linguistic perspectives (pp. 245-279). San
Diego, CA: Singular Publishing Group.
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Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Categories within the verb category: Learning the causative in Inuktitut. Linguistics
36(4), 633-677.
Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M. & Pesco, D. (1998). Issues of complexity in Inuktitut and English child directed
speech. In E.V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum
(pp. 37-46). Stanford: CSLI.
Crago, M.B., Chen, C., Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (1998). Power and deference: Bilingual decision
making in Inuit homes. Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 4(1), 78-95.
Also published as: Crago, M.B., Chen, C., Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010). Poder y deferencia:
la toma de decisiones sobre el bilingüismo en los hogares inuit. In De León, Lourdes (Ed.),
Socialización, lenguaje y culturas infantiles (pp. 273-292). Mexico: CIESAS.
Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Towards a discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in early
null arguments. In A. Baker, C. Blankenstijn, M. Roelofs & A. Scheper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th
Netwerk Eerste Taalverwerving Symposium (pp. 1-16). Amsterdam: Leerstoelgroep Psycholinguïstiek
en Taalpathologie, University of Amsterdam.
Allen, S.E.M. (1997). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in early null
arguments: The Principle of Informativeness revisited. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock & R. Shillcock (Eds.),
Proceedings of the GALA '97 Conference on Language Acquisition (pp. 10-15). Edinburgh: University
of Edinburgh.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Linguistic and cultural aspects of simplicity and complexity in
Inuktitut (Eskimo) child-directed speech. In E. Hughes, M. Hughes & A. Greenhill (Eds.), Proceedings
of the 21st Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 91-102). Somerville,
MA: Cascadilla Press.
Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M., & Hough-Eyamie, W.P. (1997). Exploring innateness through cultural and
linguistic variation. In M. Gopnik (Ed.), The inheritance and innateness of grammars (pp. 70-90).
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Allen, S.E.M. (1997). Review of La parole inuit: Langue, culture et société dans l’arctique nord-américain
by Louis-Jacques Dorais. Anthropological Linguistics, 39(2), 325-328.
Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Aspects of argument structure acquisition in Inuktitut. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1996). Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut. Journal of Child Language,
23(1), 129-155.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1996). Building the case for impairment in linguistic representation. In M. L.
Rice (Ed.), Toward a genetics of language (pp. 261-289). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Allen, S.E.M. (1995). Acquisition of causatives in Inuktitut. In E.V. Clark (Ed.), Proceedings of the 27th
Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 51-60). Stanford: CSLI.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1994). Morphemes gone askew: Linguistic impairment in Inuktitut. McGill
Working Papers in Linguistics, 10 (1&2), 206-215.
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Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1993). The acquisition of passives and unaccusatives in Inuktitut. McGill
Working Papers in Linguistics, 9, 1-29.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1993). Early acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut. In E.V. Clark
(Ed.), Proceedings of the 24th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp. 112-123).
Stanford: CSLI.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992). The acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut. In. W.O. Kupsch
& J.F. Basinger (Eds.), The Musk-Ox 39: Proceedings of the Third National Student Conference on
Northern Studies (pp. 306-312).
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992). First language acquisition of Inuktitut. In M.-J. Dufour & F. Thérien
(Eds.), Inuit Studies Occasional Papers 4: Proceedings of the Seventh Inuit Studies Conference (pp.
273-281).
Crago, M.B., Annahatak, B., Doehring, D. & Allen, S.E.M. (1991). Evaluation of Inuit children's first
language by native speakers. Journal of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology, 15, 43-48.
Allen, S.E.M. (1989). Preschool language acquisition of Inuktitut: A case study of one Inuk boy. In W.O.
Kupsch & J.F. Basinger (Eds.), The Musk-Ox 37: Proceedings of the Second National Student
Conference on Northern Studies (pp. 159-167).
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1989). Acquisition of noun incorporation in Inuktitut. Papers and Reports on
Child Language Development 28: Proceedings of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum (pp.
49-56).
Allen, S.E.M. (1988). Noun incorporation in Eskimo: Postpositions and case marking. McGill Working
Papers in Linguistics, 5(2), 1-39.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS –
PLENARY/KEYNOTE AT CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS
Summer School of Linguistics, Litomysl, Czech Republic. Three plenary lectures: “The effect of discoursepragmatics on referential choice in children”, “Cross-linguistic priming in adult bilinguals”, and
“Developing tools for language assessment in Inuktitut”. August, 2016.
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. “Crosslinguistic influence in L2 processing of complex
noun phrases.” Mannheim Meeting on Bilingualism, July, 2016.
Summer School on Human Language: From Genes and Brains to Behavior, Berg en Dal, Netherlands.
“Morphosyntactic development.” Plenary lecture, with H. Behrens, July, 2016.
Workshop on the Role of Pragmatic Factors in Child Language Processing, Berlin, Germany. “Discoursepragmatic cues in child processing from a cross-linguistic perspective.” Keynote speaker, May, 2016.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. “Investigating the development of the
bilingual language faculty: A sentence processing perspective.” Symposium on Perspectives on Language
Development, October, 2014.
International Conference on the Acquisition of Referring Expressions: Crossed Perspectives, Paris, France.
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“A crosslinguistic perspective on the acquisition of referring expressions.” Keynote speaker, October, 2013.
International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran. “Grammar is not all in the mind: The
interaction of pragmatics and syntax in child language.” Keynote speaker, May, 2013.
Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Netherlands. “The role of discourse-pragmatics in
determining referential choice in child English and Inuktitut.” Workshop on Referentiality: Pronouns and
Determiners in Native and Learner Grammars, April, 2012.
Rolduc Conference Center, Kerkrade, Netherlands. “What can you learn from omitted nouns?” Invited
discussant for talk by Lila Gleitman: “A few words about words”. Workshop in honor of Wolfgang Klein
on Frontiers in Linguistics, Acquisition, and Multilingualism Studies: Dynamic Paradigms, May, 2011.
International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran. “Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous
bilingual children: The case of the Inuit in Canada." Plenary speaker, Workshop on Language Acquisition
and Learning: Some Biolinguistic and Bilingualist Perspectives, May, 2011.
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. “Bilingualism and bilingual education among the Inuit of
north-eastern Canada.” Plenary speaker, Symposium on Transferring Linguistic Know-How into
Institutional Practices: Perspectives and Results, December, 2009.
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, France. “Incremental sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic
features in child English argument realization.” Paris Workshop on Grammar and Pragmatics, June, 2009.
Boston University, Boston, MA. “How is a first language learned?” Plenary speaker, Annual Alumni MiniConference: English Language Learners from Birth to 100 Years, March, 2009.
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. “Discourse and argument structure.” Invited instructor, Swiss
Linguistics Summer School 2007: First Language Acquisition, September, 2007.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. “Cross-linguistic developmental differences
in the expression of Manner and Path: Evidence from speech and gesture.” Third Annual Symposium of the
Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Language Studies, July, 2007.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Invited discussant for annual Nijmegen
Lectures – Paul Bloom, Bodies and Souls. December, 2006.
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Language acquisition in Inuktitut-English bilinguals.” Plenary
speaker, Conference on Language Acquisition and its Consequences in a Multilingual Society, May, 2006.
University of Groningen, Groningen, NL. “Crosslinguistic development in spatial thinking and speaking:
Insights from co-speech gesture.” Workshop on Gestures in Language Development, April, 2006.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. “Code mixing in English-Inuktitut bilinguals: The effect of language
typology.” Keynote lecture, Parasession on Languages of the Arctic, 37th Annual Meeting of the Chicago
Linguistic Society, April, 2001.
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. “A discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subjectobject asymmetry in early null arguments.” Keynote lecture, Negende Netwerk Eerste Taalverwerving
Symposium [Ninth Symposium of the Dutch First Language Acquisition Network], April, 1997.
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Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar, Netherlands. “Possibilities for investigation in
simultaneous bilingual acquisition of Inuktitut and English.” NIAS Workshop on Bilingual Acquisition,
May, 1996.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Invited discussant for Conference on
Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, November, 1995.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Invited discussant for session on “What
is ‘documentary linguistics’?” ‘Best Record’ Workshop, October, 1995.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS –
COLLOQUIUM SERIES & DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. “Cross-linguistic priming in adult bilinguals.” Colloquium Series
of the Englisches Seminar, April, 2016.
Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. “Complex structures and garden paths in L2 sentence
processing”. Distinguished Speakers in Language Science Colloquium Series, February, 2016.
University of Reading, Reading, UK. “Cross-linguistic syntactic priming: Effects of constituent order and
level of embedding.” Colloquium Series of the Center for Literacy and Multilingualism, June, 2015.
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany. “The role of discourse pragmatics in
determining referential choice in child English and Inuktitut.” Colloquium Series, March, 2015.
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. “The role of constituent order and level of embedding in crosslinguistic (and within-language) structural priming.” Colloquium Series of the Department of Linguistics,
January, 2015.
University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway. “The role of discourse pragmatics in determining referential
choice in child English and Inuktitut.” Colloquium Series of the Center for the Advanced Study of
Theoretical Linguistics, November, 2013.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL. “The acquisition of ergativity among children
learning Northern Quebec Inuktitut: Implications for language change.” Department of Linguistics, January,
2013.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL. “The role of discourse pragmatics in determining
referential choice in child English and Inuktitut.” Department of Linguistics, January, 2013.
University of Trier, Trier, Germany. “Sentence processing in L2 adults: What mechanisms are used?”
Department of English, July, 2012.
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. “The effect of discourse pragmatics on children’s use of sentential
subjects.” Department of Linguistics, March, 2012.
Northeastern University, Boston, MA. “Ergativity in Inuktitut: Language acquisition and language change.”
Language Acquisition Colloquium Series, Linguistics Program, March, 2012.
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Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany. “The effect of discourse pragmatics on children’s use of
sentential subjects.” Department of English Linguistics, November, 2011.
Universität Kassel, Kassel, Germany. “The discourse-pragmatics of argument realization in child English.”
Institute for English and American Studies, June, 2009.
Phillips-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany. “The discourse-pragmatics of argument realization in
child English.” Institute for English and American Studies, June, 2009.
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. “The discourse-pragmatics of argument realization in child
English.” Institute for English and American Studies, January, 2009.
Boston University, Boston, MA. “Development of speech and gesture in talking about motion events.”
Child-Oriented Researchers Group, December, 2008.
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. “Development of speech and gesture in talking about
motion events.” English Linguistics Colloquium Series, July, 2008.
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany. “Cross-linguistic developmental differences in the
expression of Manner and Path: Evidence from speech and gesture.” Department of Social Sciences, June,
2008.
University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany. “The linguistics of hand-waving: Speech and
gesture about motion events.” (Evening speaker at annual 2-day seminar for physics doctoral students.)
Graduiertenkolleg Kompaktseminar, April, 2008.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. “Language-specific and universal influences in
children’s packaging of manner and path: A comparison of English, Japanese, and Turkish.” Harvard-MIT
Event Reading Group, February, 2007.
University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. “What affects how children learn grammar?” School of
Psychological Sciences, July, 2006.
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. “Code mixing in Inuktitut-English bilinguals.” Research
Center for Multilingualism, July, 2006.
University of Trier, Trier, Germany. “Development of spatial thinking and speaking: Universal and
language-specific influences.” Department of English, June, 2006.
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. “Cross-linguistic developmental differences
in the expression of Manner and Path: Evidence from speech and gesture.” Colloquium Series, Institute for
the Philology of German as a Foreign Language, May, 2006.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany. “Cross-linguistic developmental differences
in the expression of Manner and Path: Evidence from speech and gesture.” Linguistics Colloquium Series,
January, 2006.
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. “Is grammar all in the mind? The case of omitted subjects in
children’s speech.” Department of Psychology, March, 2005.
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University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. “Universal vs. language-specific: The crosslinguistic acquisition of
motion event speech and gesture.” Linguistics Colloquium Series, September, 2004.
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH. “The effect of language contact in English-Inuktitut child
bilinguals.” Linguistics Colloquium Series, December, 2003.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. “The effect of joint attention on
argument realization.” Language Acquisition Group, July, 2001
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. “The effect of joint attention on
argument realization.” Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, July, 2001
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. “Beyond new and given: Argument realization in child Inuktitut.”
Department of Psychology (Goldin-Meadow Lab), April, 2001.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. “Beyond new and given:
Argument realization in child Inuktitut.” Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, July,
2000.
University of Calgary, Calgary, AB. “Assessing Baker’s polysynthesis parameter: Acquisition of noun
incorporation in Inuktitut and Mohawk.” Department of Linguistics, March, 1998.
Boston University, Boston, MA. “The effect of discourse-pragmatic factors on argument realization in early
child language.” School of Education, March, 1998.
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC. “Discourse effects in early null argument asymmetries.” Guest lecture
in undergraduate psycholinguistics course, Department of Linguistics, November, 1997.
Portland State University, Portland, OR. “Discourse effects in early null argument asymmetries.”
Department of Applied Linguistics, November, 1997.
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON. “Towards a discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object
asymmetry in early null arguments: Evidence from Inuktitut child language.” Linguistics Colloquium
Series, March, 1997.
Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. “Learning noun incorporation in early Inuktitut.” Institut für
Linguistik, November, 1995.
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. “Crosslinguistic perspectives on the acquisition of noun incorporation.”
Cognitive Science Brown Bag Seminar, April, 1995.
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands. “Early passive acquisition in Inuktitut.” Seminar on
Acquisition of Argument Structure Alternations, March, 1995.
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. “Learning noun incorporation in polysynthetic languages.”
Linguistics Colloquium Series, September, 1994.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. “Acquisition of passives and
unaccusatives in Inuktitut.” Language Acquisition Group, June, 1993.
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University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. “Acquisition of passive structures in Inuktitut.” Linguistics
Colloquium Series, March, 1993.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. “Early passive in Inuktitut: Perspectives on Borer & Wexler (1987).”
Child Language Institute Proseminar, September, 1991.
REFEREED PRESENTATIONS
Mozaffari Chanijani, S. S., Al-Naser, M., Bukhari, S. S., Borth, D., Allen, S. E. M., & Dengel, A. (2016,
October). An eye movement study on scientific papers using wearable eye tracking technology. 9th
International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking. German Center for
Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Elliot, M., Family, N. & Katsika, K. (2016, September). “L2 processing of
complex noun phrases in English”. Conference on Multilingualism, University of Ghent, Ghent,
Belgium.
Allen, S.E.M. & Family, N. (2016, September). The effects of verb bias and plausibility on ambiguity
resolution in L2 English: an eye-tracking study of native German speakers. Poster at Architectures and
Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015, University of Bilbao, Spain.
Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Telatar, E. & Patuary, M.U. (2016, May). “L2 processing of complex noun
phrases in English”. Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Telatar, E. & Patuary, M.U. (2016, May). “L2 processing of complex noun
phrases in English.” Poster at 3rd International Symposium on Brain and Cognitive Science, Yeditepe
University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Allen, S.E.M., Fernandez, L., Elliot, M., Family, N. & Katsika, K. (2016, April). “The effect of discourse
expectations in L2 processing of complex noun phrases in English.” Poster at International Symposium
on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults and Children, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern,
Germany.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015, November). “The processing of Greek relative clauses in adults and
children.” Poster at 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston,
MA.
Allen, S.E.M., Brenckle, I., Family, N., Katsika, K., Dovenberg, E., Coffin, L. & Schulz, M. (2015,
September). “The effect of discourse expectations in the processing of complex noun phrases by L2
speakers of English.” Poster at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015,
University of Malta, Malta.
Iraola Azpiroz, M., Allen, S.E.M. & Ezeizabarrena, M.-J. (2015, September). “Pronoun resolution
preferences in Basque-speaking children and adults: Any traces of convergence?” Poster at
Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015, University of Malta, Malta.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015, September). “The processing of Greek relative clauses in adults and
children.” Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2015, University of Malta, Malta.
Allen, S.E.M., Brenckle, I., Family, N., Katsika, K., Dovenberg, E., Coffin, L. & Schulz, M. (2015, June).
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“The effect of discourse expectations in the processing of complex noun phrases by L2 speakers of
English.” Poster at Discourse Expectations: Theoretical, Experimental and Computational Perspectives
(DETEC 2015). University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2015, May). “The role of L1 in L2 processing of morphosyntax.” Symposium
organized at the 10th International Symposium on Bilingualism, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
Allen, S.E.M. (2014, July). Discussant for the symposium “The role of iconicity in language development
across language modalities and typologies.” 13th International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Allen, S.E.M., Dench, C. & Coffin, L. (2014, July). “Calculating mean length of utterance for Eastern
Canadian Inuktitut: Morphemes, words, or syllables?” Poster at the 13th International Congress for the
Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Pyykkönen-Klauck, P. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014, July). “Which pragmatic factors have the most influence on
comprehension and production of referring expressions?” Symposium organized at the 13th
International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands..
Hughes, M.E. & Allen, S.E.M. (2014, July). “An investigation into the relative strength of six discoursepragmatic features in the acquisition and use of referential forms in child English.” 13th International
Congress for the Study of Child Language, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Cavicchio, F., Brown, A., Furman, R., Allen, S., Özyürek, A. & Kita, S. (2014, May). Annotation of space
and manner/path configuration in bilinguals’speech and manual gestures. 10th International Workshop
on Multimodal Corpora, Tools and Resources, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Dench, C., Allen, S.E.M. & Coffin, L. (2014, May). “Evaluating Inuktitut expressive language
development: MLU in morphemes, words, or syllables?” Poster at the Annual Conference of the
Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists, Ottawa, ON.
Brittain, J., Allen, S.E.M. & Acton, S. (2014, April). Argument realization in Northern East Cree child
speech and child-directed speech. 19th Annual Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the
Languages of the Americas, St. John’s, NL.
Allen, S.E.M., Dench, C. & Isakson, K. (2014, March). Adapting the LARSP for Inuktitut. Workshop on
LARSP (Language Assessment, Remediation and Screening Protocol) Across Languages, Reading,
UK.
Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Calley, M., Martinek, L., Family, N. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, November). “The role
of surface and global syntactic structure in cross-linguistic priming.” Poster at 38th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, September). “Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible
word order language: Evidence from Greek.” 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics,
Rhodes, Greece.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, September). “Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible
word order language: Evidence from Greek.” 2013 Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms in
Language Processing, Marseille, France.
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Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Calley, M., Martinek, L., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, September). “Crosslinguistic syntactic priming in German-English bilinguals: The role of global and surface syntactic
structure.” 2013 Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms in Language Processing, Marseille,
France.
Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Calley, M., Martinek, L., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, September). “The role
of surface and global syntactic structure in cross-linguistic priming.” Cross-linguistic Priming in
Bilinguals: Perspectives and Constraints, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Allen, S.E.M. (2013, June). “Factors affecting language processing in L2 speakers.” Symposium organized
at the 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Singapore.
Jacob, G., Calley, M., Katsika, K., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, June). “Syntactic representations in
bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” Symposium on: Factors affecting
language processing in L2 speakers, 9th International Symposium on Bilingualism, Singapore.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, April). “Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible word
order language: Evidence from Greek.” 21st International Symposium on Theoretical & Applied
Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Jacob, G., Calley, M., Katsika, K., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, April). “Syntactic representations in
bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” 21st International Symposium on
Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Katsika, K. & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, March). “Processing subject and object relative clauses in a flexible
word order language: Evidence from Greek.” 11th International Symposium of Psycholinguistics,
Tenerife, Spain.
Jacob, G., Calley, M., Katsika, K., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, March). “Syntactic representations
in bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” 11th International Symposium of
Psycholinguistics, Tenerife, Spain.
Allen, S.E.M. (2013, January). “Ergative to accusative case in northern Quebec Inuktitut?” Annual Meeting
of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Boston, MA.
Jacob, G., Calley, M., Katsika, K., Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2013, January). “Syntactic representations
in bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” 87th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic
Society of America, Boston, MA.
Allen, S.E.M. (2012, November). “The acquisition of ergativity among children learning northern Quebec
Inuktitut: Implications for language change.” Poster at 37th Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, Boston, MA.
Katsika, K., Jacob, G., Calley, M. Family, N., & Allen, S.E.M. (2012, September). “Syntactic
representations in bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” Poster at Architecture
and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Italy.
Jacob, G., Thomann, H.A., Katsika, K., Allen, S.E.M. & Family, N. (2012, September). Thematic role
assignment in noncanonical sentences: Is L2 processing more “shallow” than L1? Poster at Architecture
and Mechanisms of Language Processing (AMLaP), Riva del Garda, Italy.
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Jacob, G., Thomann, H.A., Katsika, K., Allen, S.E.M. & Family, N. (2012, September). Thematic role
assignment in noncanonical sentences: Is L2 processing more “shallow” than L1? Poster at EuroSLA
22, Poznan, Poland.
Family, N., and Allen, S.E.M. (2012, July). Productivity in the Persian Causative Construction, 4th UK
Cognitive Linguistics Conference, King's College London, UK.
Jacob, G., Thomann, H.A., Katsika, K., Allen, S.E.M. & Family, N. (2012, June). “Thematic role
assignment in noncanonical sentences: Is L2 processing more “shallow” than L1?” Poster at
Psycholinguistics in Flanders, Berg en Dal, Netherlands.
Jacob, G., Katsika, K., Calley, M., Allen, S.E.M. & Family, N. (2012, June). “Syntactic representations in
bilinguals: The role of word order in cross-linguistic priming.” Poster at Psycholinguistics in Flanders,
Berg en Dal, Netherlands.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2011, July). “The contribution of grammatical and discourse-pragmatic
effects to the acquisition of referential choice in child English.” 12th International Congress on the
Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada.
Kita, S., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S.E.M. & Ishizuka, T. (2011, July). “Development of iconic gestures and
sound symbolic words in motion event narratives in Japanese.” 12th International Congress on the
Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2011, May). “The incremental effect of discourse-pragmatic sensitivity in
subject omission in child English.” International Conference on Cognitive Science, Tehran, Iran.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2011, March). “The contribution of grammatical and discourse-pragmatic
effects to the acquisition of referential choice in child English.” Society for Research on Child
Development, Montreal, Canada.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010, November). “Competing constraints in the acquisition of referential
choice.” Conference on Competing Motivations, Leipzig, Germany.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2010, November). “The contribution of grammatical and discourse-pragmatic
effects to the acquisition of referential choice in child English.” 35th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Kita, S., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S.E.M. & Ishizuka, T. (2010, April). “Relationship between iconic gestures
and sound symbolic words: Evidence for multimodal protolanguage.” 8th International Conference on
the Evolution of Language, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Skarabela, B. & Allen. S.E.M. (2009, November). “How discourse-pragmatic features work together:
Assessing the interaction between newness and joint attention in early argument realization.” 34th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2009, April). “Child-directed speech and the development of referential
choice in English.” Society for Research on Child Development 2009 Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO.
Allen, S.E.M. (2008, July). “Cross-linguistic and cross-methodological approaches to argument
realization.” Symposium (5 papers plus discussant) organized at the 11th International Congress on the
Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK.
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Skarabela, B., Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2008, July). “Developmental effects of discourse-pragmatics
and social cognition on argument realization: A comparison of child English and child Inuktitut.” 11th
International Congress on the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S.E.M. (2008, July). “A developmental study of subject omission in child English.”
11th International Congress on the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, UK.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2007, November). “A developmental study of subject omission and referential
choice in child English.” 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Boston, MA.
Ozyurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., Furman, R., Kita, S. & Allen, S. (2007, June). “Representing motion
events in gestures with and without speech across languages.” International Society for Gesture Studies,
Evanston, IL.
Allen, S., Ozyurek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2006, October). “Cross-linguistic
developmental differences in the expression of Manner and Path: Evidence from speech and gesture.”
2nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Linguistics, Munich, Germany.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2005, November). “A discourse-pragmatic analysis of subject omission in child
English.” 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Furman, R., Ozyurek, A., & Allen, S.. (2005, November). “Learning to express causation across languages:
What do speech and gesture patterns reveal?” 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development, Boston, MA.
Allen, S., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2005, July). “Is syntactic packaging of manner
and path language-specific at age 3?” Tenth Congress of the International Association for the Study of
Child Language, Berlin, Germany.
Hughes, M. & Allen, S. (2005, July). “A discourse-pragmatic analysis of subject omission in early child
English.” Tenth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Berlin,
Germany.
Furman, R., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S., Kita, S. & Brown, A. (2005, June). “What do gestures reveal about
causal event representations across languages and ages?” Meeting of the International Society for
Gesture Studies, Lyon, France.
Brown, A., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S., Kita, S., Ishizuka, T. & Furman, R. (2004, November). “Does event
cognition influence children’s motion event expressions?” 29th Annual Boston University Conference
on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Brown, A., Allen, S., Ozyurek, A., Kita, S., Ishizuka, T. & Furman, R. (2004, September). “What co-speech
gestures reveal about L2 proficiency: A sudy of Japanese learners of English.” EuroSLA 14, Donostia –
San Sebastián, Spain.
Allen, S., Ozyurek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Furman, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2004, May). “Universal and
language-specific influences in syntactic packaging of information: A cross-linguistic developmental
study.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Winnipeg, MB.
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Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2003, November). “The context of non-affixal arguments in child Inuktitut:
The role of joint attention.” 28th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Boston, MA.
Zwanziger, E.E., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (2003, November). “Investigating crosslinguistic influence
in child bilinguals: Sentential subject omission in speakers of Inuktitut and English.” 28th Annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Ozyürek, A., Kita, S., Allen, S.E.M., Kokal, I., Turanli, R. & Brown, A. (2003, June). “How to solve the
language learning task: Speech-gesture mismatches as an index of spatial language development in
Turkish children.” Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2003, April). “Joint attention and argument realization in child Inuktitut.”
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H., Fish, S.A., Zwanziger, E.E. & Crago, M.B. (2003, April). “Code-mixing in
child Inuktitut-English bilinguals: Nonce borrowing as strategy?” 4th International Symposium on
Bilingualism, Tempe, AZ.
Fish, S.A., Hoffmeister, R., Allen, S.E.M., Moren, B. & Schick, B. (2003, March). “The acquisition of ASL
classifier morphology in verbs of location: A closer look.” Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Applied Linguistics, Arlington, VA.
Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H., & Fish, S.A (2003, March). “The effect of typological differences in
language contact: Code-mixing in adult Inuktitut-English bilinguals.” Eighth Workshop on Structure
and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, Brandon, MB.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2003, February). “Joint attention in argument expression in child Inuktitut.”
Georgetown University Roundtable in Linguistics, Washington, DC.
Allen, S.E.M., Ozyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A., Turanli, R. & Ishizuka, T. (2002, November). Early speech
about manner and path in Turkish and English: Universal or language-specific? 27th Annual Boston
University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2002, July). Correlations between newness, joint attention, and argument
realization in child Inuktitut. Paper presented at the Ninth International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Madison, WI.
Ozyürek, A., Allen, S.E.M. & Kita, S. (2002, July). “Development of iconic gestures in typologically
different languages.” Ninth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language,
Madison, WI.
Allen, S.E.M., Ozyürek, A., Kita, S., Brown, A. & Turanli, R. (2002, April). “Universal and languagespecific influences on the expression of manner and path in speech.” Stanford Child Language Research
Forum 2002, Stanford, CA.
Kita, S., Ozyurek, A., Allen, S.E.M. & Brown, A. (2002, January). “Cross-linguistic variation of iconic
gestures accompanying motion event description.” 76th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of
America, San Francisco, CA.
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Skarabela, B. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001, November). “The role of joint attention in argument realization in
child Inuktitut.” 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Swift, M.D. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001, November). “Contexts of verbal inflection dropping in Inuktitut child
speech.” 26th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (2001, April). “On-line grammatical interactions in young bilingual
children.” Third International Symposium on Bilingualism, Bristol, UK.
Fish, S.A., Hoffmeister, R. & Allen, S.E.M. (2000, November). “The acquisition of classifier morphology
in ASL by deaf children: Evidence from descriptions of objects in specific spatial arrangements.” 25th
Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Genesee, F.H., Allen, S.E.M., Fish, S.A. & Crago, M.B. (1999, November). “Linguistic constraints on child
code-mixing: Evidence from Inuktitut-English bilingual children.” 24th Annual Boston University
Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Allen, S.E.M., Genesee, F.H. & Crago, M.B. (1999, July). “Code-mixing in Inuktitut-English bilingual
children.” Eighth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Donostia
– San Sebastián, Spain.
Allen, S.E.M. (1999, July). “Discourse-pragmatics as an explanation for the distribution of forms in
arguments.” Eighth Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language,
Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain.
Allen, S.E.M., Schröder, H., & Crago, M.B. (1998, September). “Indicators of language development and
loss in Inuktitut narratives.” Eleventh Inuit Studies Conference, University of Greenland, Nuuk,
Greenland.
Allen, S.E.M. (1998, June). “Learning about argument realization in Inuktitut and English: Gradual
development in the use of non-ellipsed forms.” Workshop on: Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument
structure: Implications for learnability, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Allen, S.E.M. (1998, January). “Discourse effects in early null argument asymmetries.” 72nd Annual
Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, New York, NY.
Allen, S.E.M. (1998, January). “Linguistic change in Inuktitut narratives across ages.” Winter Meeting of
the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, New York, NY.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1997, November). “Early finiteness in a null subject language: Evidence
from Inuktitut.” 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (1997, September). “Null subjects in discourse.” Child Language Seminar,
Garderen, Netherlands.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1997, April). “Issues of complexity in English and Inuktitut child-directed
speech.” 29th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.
Chen, C., Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (1997, April). “Syncretism in bilingual Inuit homes:
The blending and dissociation of language and culture.” International Symposium on Bilingualism,
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle, England.
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Allen, S.E.M. (1997, April). “A discourse-pragmatic explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in early
null arguments.” GALA Conference, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Allen, S.E.M. (1997, March) “Learning the structure of causatives in early Inuktitut”. Workshop on
Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
Crago, M.B. & Allen, S.E.M. (1996, November). “Linguistic and cultural aspects of simplicity and
complexity in Inuktitut (Eskimo) child-directed speech.” 21st Annual Boston University Conference on
Language Development, Boston, MA.
Allen, S.E.M. (1996, August). “Causatives as imperatives in early Inuktitut.” Tenth Inuit Studies
Conference, Memorial University, St. John’s, NF.
Crago, M.B., Genesee, F.H. & Allen, S.E.M. (1996, August). “Decision making and dilemmas in bilingual
Inuit homes.” Tenth Inuit Studies Conference, Memorial University, St. John’s, NF.
Allen, S.E.M. (1996, July). “The development of morphological and lexical causatives in Inuktitut.”
Workshop on Developing a Verb Category, Seventh International Congress for the Study of Child
Language, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (1996, July). “Null subjects and null objects in early Inuktitut.” Workshop on
Functional Constraints on Ellipsis, Seventh International Congress for the Study of Child Language,
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Allen, S.E.M. (1996, July). “Assessing productivity in acquisition data from polysynthetic languages.”
Seventh International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (1996, April). “Complementary contributions of functionalism and formalism
to an analysis of argument representation in early Inuktitut.” UWM Linguistics Symposium:
Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M. & Genesee, F.H. (1996, April). “Two languages, two morphemes: Bilingual
acquisition as a source of information about early language development.” Tenth Biennial International
Conference on Infant Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI.
Allen, S.E.M. & Schröder, H. (1996, April). “Preferred Argument Structure in early Inuktitut spontaneous
speech data.” Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language II, State University of New York, Buffalo,
NY.
Allen, S.E.M & Schröder, H. (1996, March). “Discourse effects on argument representation in early
Inuktitut spontaneous speech.” Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Native American
Languages, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
Allen, S.E.M. (1995, July). “Null subjects and null objects in early Inuktitut.” Workshop on Functional
Constraints on Ellipsis in First Language Acquisition, Functional Approaches to Grammar Conference,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Allen, S.E.M. (1995, July). “Learning noun incorporation in Inuktitut.” Summer Meeting, Society for the
Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
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Shanley E. M. Allen
Allen, S.E.M. (1995, June). “Crosslinguistic perspectives on the acquisition of noun incorporation”.
Canadian Linguistics Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, QC.
Allen, S.E.M. (1995, April). “Acquisition of causatives in Inuktitut.” 27th Annual Stanford Child Language
Research Forum, Stanford, CA.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1994, June). “Acquisition of transitivity in Inuktitut.” Ninth Biennial
International Conference on Infant Studies, Paris, France.
Crago, M.B., Allen, S.E.M. & Ningiuruvik, L.A. (1993, July). “Inflections gone askew: Some theoretical
implications of specific language impairment in a morphologically complex language.” Sixth
International Congress for the Study of Child Language, University of Trieste, Italy.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992, October). “Learning a polysynthetic language: A preliminary view of
early stages of first language development in Inuktitut.” Eighth Inuit Studies Conference, Laval
University, Ste. Foy, QC.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1992, April). “Early acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut.” 24th
Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.
Crago, M.B., Gopnik, M.L., Guilfoyle, E., & Allen, S.E.M. (1991, November). “Familial aggregation of a
developmental language disorder.” American Speech and Hearing Association, Atlanta, GA.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1991, October). “The acquisition of passive morphology in Inuktitut.” Third
National Student Conference on Northern Studies, Ottawa, ON.
Guilfoyle, E., Allen, S.E.M. & Moss, S. (1991, October). “Specific language impairment and the maturation
of functional categories.” 16th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development,
Boston, MA.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1990, August). “First language acquisition of Inuktitut.” Seventh Inuit
Studies Conference, Fairbanks, AK.
Allen, S.E.M. & Crago, M.B. (1989, April). “Acquisition of noun incorporation in Inuktitut.” 21st Annual
Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.
Allen, S.E.M. (1988, November). “Preschool language acquisition of Inuktitut: A case study of one Inuk
boy.” Second National Student Conference on Northern Studies, Ottawa, ON.