 deevy@purdue.edu
(765) 496-2253
Pat Deevy earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics at the University
of Massachusetts at Amherst, where her research focused
on theoretical models of adult language processing.
In 1998, she joined the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University as a post-doctoral
fellow on an NIDCD training grant, studying specific
language impairment in children. She currently serves
as a full-time Research Associate on Dr. Laurence Leonard’s
Cross-linguistic project. Dr. Deevy is particularly
interested in how on-line language processing mechanisms
might interact with grammatical representations to affect
language performance in children with SLI. Her on-going
research tests the role of short-term working memory
on the comprehension of Wh-questions and the role of
sentence formulation demands on the production of auxiliary
verbs.
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