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People Faculty
Teresa Satterfield
Teresa Satterfield, tsatter@umich.edu
Website: www.umich.edu/~tsatter
Assistant Professor of Romance Linguistics
Major research areas: Syntax; First Language Acquisition; Bilingualism
Associated research areas: Learnability Issues, Complex and Adaptive
Systems, Creole Genesis
Dr. Satterfield's present research involves the formulation of
computer models of language acquisition facts, extending her previous
parameter-setting research to include issues of modularity and the
development of linguistic representations in various language acquisition
situations, including bilingualism and creolization. She is currently
investigating elements of syntax which shed light on the claim that
the conventional notion of "parameter of variation" is
somewhat inaccurate, if not misleading. This year, she will be working
on an agent-based SWARM computational model with the support of
the UM Center for the Study of Complex Systems. In addition, Prof.
Satterfield is developing an analysis within the Minimalist Program
on variation in order to account for the simultaneous occurrence
of both focused and non-focused overt subjects in bilingual Spanish-English
speech patterns.
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