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Diane Brentari

Professor Office: Heavilon Hall
Email: brentari@purdue.edu

Specialization: Sign languages, phonology, morphology, neurolinguistics

Courses: ASL 28000; Ling 51100


Diane Brentari is the director of the ASL program. She has taught at Purdue since 1997. She previously taught at the University of California at Davis and at Gallaudet University. Her teaching responsibilities include phonology, as well as courses in the ASL program. Her current research interests are in the areas of phonology, morphology, and neurolinguistics. She has developed a model of phonological structure of sign, and she has used this model to analyze the outputs of signers with neurological damage to test its ability to explain phonological breakdown in ASL. She has worked on the architecture of the ASL lexicon, and she is currently collaborating with researchers working on the sign languages of Europe and Asia to address questions concerning sign language structure cross-linguistically.