- Lise Menn
Lise Menn (nee Lise J. Waldman, born
December 28 ,1941 , inPhiladelphia )is an American linguist who specializes inpsycholinguistics , including the studyoflanguage acquisition andaphasia .She is currentlyProfessor Emerita of linguistics and a fellow of the [http://ics.colorado.edu/ Institute for Cognitive Science] at theUniversity of Colorado at Boulder inBoulder, Colorado .Professional History
Menn earned a bachelor's degree in
mathematics in 1962 fromSwarthmore College and a master's degree (also in mathematics) from fromBrandeis University in 1964. After changing fields, she earned a master's and doctorate in linguistics from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1975/1976.She taught or conducted research at several universities in the
Boston area,including a post-doctoral position atMIT underPaula Menyuk andKenneth N. Stevens , several years as a research associate withJean Berko Gleason , and six years at the Aphasia Research Center of theBoston University School of Medicine under [http://www.bu.edu/aphasia/about_us/hgmemorial.htm Harold Goodglass] . She also spent a post-doctoral year with [http://zaidellab.psych.ucla.edu/ezaidel.htm Eran Zaidel] atUCLA ,before being appointedassociate professor of linguistics at the University of Colorado in 1986. She has been a member of the governing committees of theAcademy of Aphasia , theLinguistic Society of America , and the Linguistics and Language Sciences section of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science . Her approaches to linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics are considered to be 'bottom-up' (i.e. data-driven), empiricist, and functionalist.As of 2008 , Dr. Menn has written or edited seven books, and morethan 50 peer-reviewed articles. In 2006, she was honored as aFellow of theLinguistic Society of America .Personal life
She is the mother of
Stephen Menn and [http://www.josephmenn.com/index.php Joseph Menn] and stepmother ofSusie Bright . Her doctoral advisees and co-advisees includeMarjorie Perlman Lorch ,Rebecca Burns-Hoffmann ,Kevin Markey , Andrea Feldman,Patrick Juola ,Harold Wilcox ,Debra Biasca ,Valerie Wallace ,Carolyn J. Buck-Gengler , andHolly Krech Thomas .Dr. Menn was married to
William Bright from 1986 until his death in 2006. Her first husband was Michael D. Menn; they were divorced in 1972.elected Bibliography
*On the acquisition of phonology, by Paul Kiparsky & Lise Menn. In John Macnamara (ed.), Language Learning and Thought. New York: Academic Press (1977), pp. 47-78. Reprinted in G. Ioup & S. H. Weinberger (eds.), Interlanguage Phonology: The Acquisition of a Second Language Sound System. Cambridge, MA: Newbury House (1987), pp. 23-52.
* Elvish loanwords in Indo-European: Cultural implications. [Parody] . In J. Allan (ed.), An Introduction to Elvish. Somerset: Bran's Head Books Ltd. (1978), pp.143-151. Book reprinted 1995.
* Fundamental frequency and discourse structure, by Lise Menn & Suzanne Boyce. Language and Speech 25.341-383 (1982).
*Development of articulatory, phonetic, and phonological capabilities. In Brian Butterworth (ed.), Language Production, vol. 2. London: Academic Press (1983), pp. 3-50.
* Contrasting cases of Italian agrammatic aphasia without comprehension disorder, by Gabriele Miceli, Anna Mazzucchi, Lise Menn, & Harold Goodglass. Brain and Language 19.65-97 (1983).
* False starts and filler syllables: Ways to learn grammatical morphemes, by Ann M. Peters & Lise Menn). Language 69:4 (1993). pp. 742-777.
* "Non-Fluent Aphasia in a Multilingual World" (Studies in Speech Pathology and Clinical Linguistics, Vol 5) by Lise Menn, M. O'Connor, Loraine K. Obler, and Audrey Holland. (1996). John Benjamins.
* "Phonological Development: Models, Research, Implications (Communicating By Language)" by Charles A. Ferguson, Lise Menn, and Carol Stoel-Gammon. (1992). York Press.
* A linguistic communication measure for aphasic narratives, by Lise Menn, Gail Ramsberger, & Nancy Helm-Estabrooks. Aphasiology 8:343-359. (1994).
* "Methods for Studying Language Production" by Lise Menn and Nan Bernstein Ratner. (2000). Lawrence Erlbaum.
* "Agrammatic Aphasia: A Cross-Language Narrative Sourcebook", edited by Lise Menn and Loraine K. Obler. (1990). John Benjamins.References
* [http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/ Lise Menn home page]
* [http://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/lmenn/MennCV.html Lise Menn CV]
* [http://www.lsadc.org/info/lsa-fellows-year.cfm List of LSA Fellows]
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