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 Highest
Degree: Ph.D, University of Chicago, 1990
(see also Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics)
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.
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