Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
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About
Natasha Abner's research interests include sign languages, morpho-syntax, the syntax-semantics interface, language development and emergence in communities and individuals.
She is currently leading a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation on the structure of sign language and gesture in deaf signers, hearing non-signers, and hearing students learning American Sign Language as a second language.
Her research on the histories of sign languages and the relationship between them has been published in Science and was featured in Popular Science and other venues.
Dr. Abner runs the Sign Language & Multi-Modal Communication Lab and the Language Across Modalities discussion group, which is open to all faculty, staff, and students as well as members of the community.
