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Associate Professor

lhou@linguistics.ucsb.edu

https://sites.google.com/view/linasigns

South Hall 3507

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About
Specialization:

Documentation and description of signed 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, F24)
  • 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)

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