Lina Hou

Assistant Professor
Equity Inclusion and Diversity Advocate

Office Hours

Tuesdays 2-3p by Zoom
Thursdays 11:30a-12:30p in ONDAS
By appointment

Office Location

South Hall 3507

Specialization

Documentation and description of sign languages, child language acquisition of signed languages, usage-based and ethnographic approaches to acquisition, linguistic ethnographyincluding language socialization and language ideologies, inclusion and social justice in linguistics

 

Education

2016 Ph.D in Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin
2016-2018 University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, University of California, San Diego

Bio

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Research

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Projects

2022-2025

National Science Foundation Collaborative Award
“Function and form in the ‘what’ family of signs in American Sign Language”
PI: Lynn Hou (with Erin Wilkinson & Ryan Lepic)
Grant number: 2141350

 

Publications

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Courses

Undergraduate

  • LING 129 Sign languages and signing communities (S19, W20, Su22, Sp23)
  • LING 137 First language acquisition (W19, F19, Sp21, W23)
  • LING 138 Language socialization (W21)

Graduate courses

  • LING 229 Sign language linguistics (Sp22)
  • LING 237 First language acquisition (F18, W22)
  • LING 243 Topics in sign language linguistics (Sp23)
  • LING 288 Language socialization (S20)