Home Page for Lise Menn

Lise Menn is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been a part of the Department since 1986. She is also a faculty fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and Associate Editor of the journal Aphasiology.

In 1976 she received her PhD in Linguistics in from the University of Illinois, Urbana, specializing in the emergence of language in children. After a postdoctoral year in the Speech Communication Laboratory of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, she began to work at the Aphasia Research Center, Boston University School of Medicine. She has also held visiting research appointments in neurolinguistics at UCLA and in Japan. In 1995 she was an associate director of the Linguistic Institute at the University of New Mexico.  In spring 2003, she will be on sabbatical, and expects to be lecturing and working in Japan, Taiwan, Hunan, New Zealand, and Australia.

In Fall 2002 she is teaching Ling 6560 Language Development, Ling 7762 Readings in Cognitive Science, and co-organizing the seminar Ling 5950 Teaching English to speakers of East Asian Languages.

Her research interests include:

• Phonological and morphological development in children;
• Computer modeling of phonological development and morphological knowledge;
• Interaction of discourse structure with syntactic defects in aphasia, including experimental techniques for studying the effects of empathy and shared information;
• Psycholinguistic models of sentence production in discourse context, focusing on understanding of language about spatial relations and orientations;
• Phonotactics in first and second language learners.
• Cross-linguistic comparison of language disorders

• L.K. Obler and L. Menn, Exceptional language and linguistics (1982);
• L. Menn and B. MacWhinney, The repeated morph constraint (1984);
• L. Menn and L. K. Obler, (eds.) Agrammatic Aphasia: a Cross-Language Narrative Sourcebook (1990);
• C.A. Ferguson, L. Menn, and C. Stoel-Gammon, Phonological Development: Models, Research, Implications (1992);
• Peters and L. Menn, False starts and filler syllables (1993);
• Menn, L. A. Peters, Permeable Modules: On Evolving and Acquiring Language-specific Capacities (1993);
• Stoel-Gammon, C., L. Menn, Phonological Development: Learning Sounds and Sound Patterns, in Gleason, J. Berko (ed.), The Development of Language, 5th edition. (2001)
• Menn, L. &  Ratner, N.B. Methods for Studying Language Production..   Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (2000)
• Menn, L. It's time to face a simple question: WHY is canonical form simple?  Millenium issue, Brain & Language, Jan. 2000.
• Wallace, Valerie, Lise Menn, and Christine Yoshinaga-Itano. 2000. Is babble the gateway to speech for all children? A longitudinal study of deaf and hard-of-hearing infants. In  C. Yoshinaga-Itano and A. Sedey (eds.) Language, Speech, and Social-Emotional Development of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children: The Early Years.Volta Review Research Monograph.
• Menn, L. (2001) Comparative Aphasiology: Cross-Language Studies of Aphasia.  In Vol. 3, Language and Aphasia, of the Handbook of Neuropsychology (R.S. Berndt, volume editor; F. Boller and J. Grafman, general editors). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. Pp. 51-68.
• Menn, L. (2001) Thirty Years' Perspective on Child Phonology and Phonological Theories: Principled Polydoxy.  In Caroline Féry, Antony Dubach Green & Ruben van de Vijver (eds.), Proceedings of HILP5, University of Potsdam.
• Buck-Gengler, C. J., L. Menn, & A. Healy (2001), Mice trap: a new explanation for irregular plurals in noun-noun compounds. Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinborough, August 2001.

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