Pia Simper-Allen Senior lecturer
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Name and title: Pia Simper-AllenSenior lecturer
Workplace: Department of Linguistics Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room C 340Universitetsvägen 10 C, plan 2-3
Postal address Institutionen för lingvistik106 91 Stockholm
About me
Dr. Simper-Allen (Ph,D. in Linguistics). Senior Lecturer/assistant professor; teacher and researcher.
Main interests are:
- Childrens acquisition of Sign Language
- Cognitive science within Sign Language
- Depicting verbs
1. "Cut and Break"-descriptions in Swedish Sign Language. Children's and adult's depicting verb constructions
("Cut and Break"-beskrivningar i svenskt teckenspråk. Barns och vuxnas avbildande verbkonstruktioner)
My dissertation explores children’s (aged 2;1–6;6) and adults’ depicting verb constructions denoting cutting and breaking events in Swedish Sign Language (SLL).
The dissertation provide a detailed description of both adults’ and children’s verb constructions in descriptions of cutting and breaking events, more specifically of number of hands, handshape category and hand activity, which has not been described for any sign language hitherto.
2. Collecting data of early visual communication between deaf children and deaf parents (aged 0;3 - 1;6)
3. Discourse analysis: Comparison in the use of Token blend in media (television news in Sign Language) aim for the rising generation (age 7-20) and of media (television news in Sign Language) for elder generation (age 20 - above).