Kaitlyn Harrigan CV - Linguistics

Kaitlyn P. Harrigan
University of Maryland, College Park
1407B Marie Mount Hall
College Park MD, 20742
Phone: 413.559.1331
[email protected]
http://ling.umd.edu/~kph
EDUCATION
University of Maryland College Park
PhD Linguistics, expected May 2015
Smith College, Northampton, MA
B.A., Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Linguistics, May 2009
Majors: Linguistics, Spanish
Honors Thesis: Children’s production and comprehension of definite and indefinite articles in an Optimality Theory Framework,
Highest Honors received
Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain
Academic Year 2007-2008 (all classes in Spanish)
COST Training School in Language Acquisition Methods
Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany, March 2009
LOT Winter School 2009 (Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap / Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics)
Groningen, the Netherlands, January, 2009
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant and Lab Manager, Smith College (2009-2010)
NIH funded Research assistant to Peter and Jill de Villiers, working on Language and Theory of Mind data for a preschool
intervention project in at-risk preschools in TX and FL. Managing Language and Cognition lab at Smith College.
Research Assistant, Kon-Lab (2009-2010)
Research Assistant to Dr. Zvi Penner, researching the interface of Language and Theory of Mind for handbook for
parents.
Research Assistant, University of Groningen, the Netherlands (January-February 2008)
Worked on various research tasks for the Linguistics department, including background reading on various topics, organization and
analysis of data and presenting results and hypotheses to the department, with a focus on children’s use of definite and indefinite
articles and optimality theory.
Research Assistant, Smith College Department of Psychology (2006-2008)
Worked on a longitudinal study for the psychology department charting the progress of English of a bilingual 4 year-old; transcribed
child narratives in English and Spanish.
Smith College Summer Science Fellow, Smith College (Summer 2007)
Helped the psychology department with various summer research projects, working on things including designing, setting up and
carrying out linguistic experiments for children of different ages.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Instructor, University of Maryland, College Park (2013-present)
LING 200, Introduction to Linguistics: Scheduled for Summer session I, Summer 2014
LING 444, Language Acquisition: Co-taught Language Acquisition, Fall 2013
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Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, College Park (2011-2012)
LING 444, Language Acquisition: Graded assignments, occasionally taught class of ~20 students
LING 200, Introduction to Linguistics: Taught a section of ~30 students, did grading and office hours, Fall 2011, Spring 2012
Teaching Assistant, Smith College (Fall 2008)
Psychology 192: Research Methods is Psycholinguistics. Helped undergraduate students set up experiments collect, record, analyze
and report data.
Undergraduate Mentoring
Part-time research assistants
Spring 2014: Ashley Tipton
Fall 2012: Sarah Brown, Morgan Moyer
Spring 2012: Laura Sherry, Alisha Bonner
Fall 2011: Irene Louizou, Emma Nguyen, Faina Kostyukovsky, Jessica Lee, Jacqueline Phillips
Summer Research Fellows
Morgan Moyer (2012, 2013, 2014), Sarah Brown (2013), Ashley Tipton (2014)
PUBLICATIONS
Harrigan, K., Hacquard, V., Lidz, J. (2014, under review) Conflicting Desires do not make interpreting Want harder.
Van Hout, A. and Harrigan, K. (2010) “Asymmetries in the acquisition of definite and indefinite NPs.” Lingua, 120 (2010), pp.
1973-1990.
Van Hout, A., Harrigan, K., de Villiers, J. (2009) “Comprehension and Production of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases in
English Preschooolers.” GALANA 2008 proceedings.
PRESENTATIONS
“2-year-olds’ Comprehension of Pronouns”
Poster presentation to appear: Boston University Conference on Language Development 39 (BUCLD)
Boston MA, November 2014
“Want is easier than Think in Preschoolers”
Presentation: International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 2014
“3-year-olds compute relevance inferences in indirect requests”
Poster Presentation: 19th International Congress of Linguists (ICL), Geneva
With: S. Lewis & J. Lidz
Geneva, Switzerland, 2013
“Desire Really is Easier than Belief”
Poster presentation: Boston University Conference on Language Development 37 (BUCLD)
Boston MA, November 2012
“Is Desire really easier than Belief?”
Poster presentation: Generative Approach to Language Acquisition North America 5 (GALANA)
Lawrence KS, October 2012
“Now you see it, now you don’t: Advantages and pitfalls of in-depth analysis of preferential looking data”
Presentation: 2012 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT)
With: A. Gagliardi & M. Sutton
Washington DC, March 2012
“Prounoun Differentiation in Young Children: An Eyetracker Study”
Poster presentation: Society for Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD)
With: Emma Thomas & Jill de Villiers
Madison WI, June 2010
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“Dialect and Pre-literacy Language Skills in African American Preschoolers”
Poster presentation: Society for Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD)
With: Robin Spencer, Peter de Villiers & Jill de Villiers
Madison WI, June 2010
“Prounoun Differentiation in Young Children: An Eyetracker Study”
Poster presentation: Tobii EyetracKids III
With: Emma Thomas & Jill de Villiers
Philadelphia PA, May 2010
“Language and theory of mind: Does eyegaze reflect the understanding of beliefs?”
Presentation: UMass, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW)
May 2010
“Children’s Production and Comprehension of definite and indefinite NPSs in English: An Optimality Theory Analysis”
Presentation: Swarthmore College Research Colloquium: Linguistics at Small, liberal arts Colleges, Mellon 23
Swarthmore PA, October 2009
“Children’s Production and Comprehension of definite and indefinite articles in English: An Optimality Theory Analysis”
Poster presentation: Academy Colloquium on Language Acquisition and Optimality Theory (KNAW),
Amsterdam, July 2009
“Children’s production and comprehension of definite and indefinite articles in an Optimality Theory Framework”
Poster presentation: Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together
Northampton MA, April 2009
“Asymmetric articles: Comprehension and production of "a" and "the" in English preschoolers”
Presentation: Relating Asymmetries between Speech and Comprehension in the Acquisition of Language (RASCAL)
With: Angeliek van Hout & Jill de Villiers
Groningen, the Netherlands, January 2009
“Children’s Acquisition of Articles: An Optimality Theory Approach”
Presentation: UMass, UConn, Smith Language Acquisition Workshop (UUSLAW), December 2008
“Comprehension and Production of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases in English Preschoolers”
Poster presentation: Generative Approach to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 3)
Storrs CT, September 2008
“Acquisition of Quantifiers in a Bilingual English-speaking Preschooler”
Poster Presentation: Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together
Northampton MA, April 2007
SKILLS
MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, working knowledge of SPSS, FileMakerPro, FinalCut, R
Fluent in English, German and Spanish
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES
Linguistics Graduate Student Association Faculty representative (2012-2014) Represented Linguistics department graduate students at
faculty meetings
Member, IGERT Student Executive Committee (2012-2013) Responsible for coordinating student committees, communicating with
faculty.
Leader, IGERT Student Committee for Outreach (2012-2013) Organized several events for university and community-wide outreach.
Co-organizer, IGERT Winter Storm (January 2012) Organized a 2-week workshop for language researchers from different
departments. Included hardware and software training, research presentations, and interdisciplinary research groups.
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Rotary Exchange Student, Switzerland (2004-2005) Spent one year attending Gymnasium Thun-Schadau (High School) in Thun,
Switzerland
REFERENCES
Dr. Professor Jill de Villiers
Sophia and Austin Smith Professor
Psychology Department and Philosophy Department
Smith College, Northampton
Dr. Professor Peter de Villiers
Sophia and Austin Smith Professor
Psychology Department
Smith College, Northampton
Dr. Professor Jeffrey Lidz
Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
Dr. Professor Valentine Hacquard
Department of Linguistics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
[Last Revised: 9/9/2014]
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