February 14, 2023
Flying to France to study American Sign Language (ASL) might seem strange at first glance. But, says Peggy Lott, setting a UC San Diego Global Seminar in sign language studies in Paris was far from random.
May 24, 2018
Sign Here Event hosted by the UC San Diego Department of Linguistics shines spotlight on Deaf culture and the department’s long history of researching and teaching ASL The performer Wink educates and advocates through his one-man show “Gifts From My Deaf Father.” Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications You…
April 26, 2013
Three UC San Diego faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences: neuroscientist Steven Allen Hillyard, linguist David M. Perlmutter and anthropologist Kathryn Ann Woolard.
April 25, 2013
Language Crafters Inventors of fantastic and alien tongues discuss art of constructing languages at ‘Linguistics Goes to Hollywood’ Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nobody wore a ridged rubber forehead, or painted their skin Pandora blue. If there were craggy beards and long locks, these seemed more homage to…
September 26, 2013
…Padden, an expert in language, communication and culture, was riding in the back of a tractor, traveling between two small farming villages in the southern part of Turkey. Why was she there? To help a graduate student begin her career in communication by studying a newly formed example of sign…
February 5, 2015
…I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication A longtime member of the UC San Diego community – first as a graduate student, then as a faculty member and, most recently, as an administrator too – Carol Padden is a MacArthur “Genius” Award-winning scholar of sign languages. She was named…
January 18, 2017
An international team of researchers shows that among the preschool set, or children ages 3 to 5, native speakers of Mandarin Chinese are better than their English-speaking counterparts at processing musical pitch.
June 18, 2014
Carol Padden, an award-winning scholar of sign languages and a longtime member of the University of California, San Diego community, has been appointed dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC San Diego, effective Oct. 1, 2014. The appointment follows an extensive national search.
January 16, 2014
…Center for Research in Language and a doctoral graduate of the Linguistics Department at UC San Diego. She has served as associate dean and faculty equity advisor in the Division of Social Sciences since 2008. Padden’s main areas of research are sign language structure, culture and community and evolution of…
May 16, 2011
…of an underdocumented Kordofanian language, Moro, spoken in Sudan. More… Mark Appelbaum Mark Appelbaum is a professor in the Department of Psychology. His interests involve the application of quantitative and data analytic methods to a wide variety of problems in psychology and the behavioral sciences. More… Leslie Carver Leslie Carver…
