Shanley Allen - Curriculum Vitae#

Education

• 1995 Ph.D., Linguistics, McGill University
  
• 1985 Bachelor of Arts (Great Distinction), Hispanic Studies, McGill University

Academic Employment

• 2014 - 2020 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern
  
• Since 2012 Professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Development (W3), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
  
• 2010 - 2012 Professor of English Linguistics (W2), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
  
• 2006 - 2010 Chair, Department of Literacy, Language, Counseling and Development, School of Education, Boston University
  
• 2005 Acting Director, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, Boston University
  
• 2002 - 2010 Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Education, Boston University
  
• 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Language Education, Boston University
  
• 1994 - 1998 Research Scientist, Language Acquisition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Honors

• 2010 - 2016 Dual Career Professorship, Claussen-Simon Foundation (half of salary for six years)
  
• 1995 Mary R. Haas Award (for doctoral dissertation), Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Research Grants (recent)

• 2018-2021 German Science Foundation (FOR 2537)
  Research Unit: Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations: A Comparative Approach
  
• Co-PI, with H. Wiese (Speaker), A. Alexiadou, N. Gagarina, A. Lüdeling, C. Schroeder, L. Szucsich, R. Tracy, S. Zerbian
  
• 2016-2018 German-Israel Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (I-361-105.4-2014)
  "It's all Hebrew to me!" - Perception of Emotions in German and Hebrew Speech - Cross-Cultural, Linguistic and Second Language Aspects Co-PI, with B. Ben-David, T. Lachmann

Teaching and Research Interests

First and second language acquisition, bilingual and heritage language acquisition, Inuit languages, verb argument structure, information structure, argument realization and referential choice, scientific writing, second language sentence processing

Courses Offered

Language development, language processing, syntax, introduction to linguistics, scientific writing and publishing, research methods and design

Supervision

17 doctoral students (4 in progress), 7 Master’s students (1 in progress), 18 Bachelor’s research internships, 3 high school research internships, 9 doctoral students as external examiner

Publications (total 82)

1 monograph, 2 edited books, 22 peer-reviewed journal articles, 22 peer-reviewed book chapters, 28 proceedings and working papers, 3 invited commentaries, 2 book reviews, 2 corpus/material releases

Presentations (total 260 in 24 countries)

27 plenary/keynote talks, 50 colloquia, 183 conference presentations