Ph.D., University of California, San Diego (Linguistics), 2019
M.A., University of Copenhagen (Linguistics), 2011
B.A., University of Copenhagen (Linguistics), 2008
Our Faculty
Courses
1113 Articulatory Phonetics
1176 Intro Communication Disorders
Anne Therese Frederiksen
Assistant Professor
Profile
Professor Anne Therese Frederiksen completed her B.A and M.A degrees in Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. She earned a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. Before joining Brooklyn College, Dr. Frederiksen held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Irvine.
Professor Frederiksen’s research focuses on the psycholinguistics of sign language and bilingualism. She is interested in how sentences and longer discourses are produced and understood, especially with respect to how language users refer to people and things across clauses. Professor Frederiksen’s work also investigates the complex interactions between language experience and environment, language processing, and non-linguistic cognitive functions.
Education
Selected Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Books and Publications
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Pronoun Production and Comprehension in American Sign Language: The Interaction of Space, Grammar, and Semantics. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1968013
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Judith F. Kroll. Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages. Languages. doi.org/10.3390/languages7030214
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Implicit Causality Biases and Thematic Roles in American Sign Language. Behavior Research Methods. doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01561-1
Books and Publications
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Emerging ASL Distinctions in Sign-Speech Bilinguals' Signs and Co- Speech Gestures in Descriptions of Placement Events. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686485
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Reference tracking in early stages of different modality L2 acquisition: Limited over-explicitness in novice ASL signers' referring expressions. Second Language Research, 35, 253-283. doi.org/10.1177/0267658317750220
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Separating Viewpoint from Mode of Representation in Iconic Co- Speech Gestures: Insights from Danish Narratives. Language and Cognition, 9, 677-708. ,a href="doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.35">doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.35
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Hold + stroke gesture sequences as cohesion devices: Examples from Danish narratives. San Diego Linguistics Papers, 6, 2-13
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Who's on First? Investigating the Referential Hierarchy in Simple Native ASL Narratives. Lingua, 180, 49-68. doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.03.007
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Tracking Reference in Space: How L2 Learners Use ASL Referring Expressions. In Grillo, E. & Jepson, K. Proceedings of the 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 165-177). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press
Grants and Fellowships
National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Consequences of Language Modality on Language Processing, Regulation, and Cognitive Control (SBE-2005246, PI)
University of California Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship: Code-Blending and Pronoun Processing in Bimodal Bilinguals (PI, Sponsor: Judith Kroll; Co-sponsor: Jill Morford)
XPRAG.de Internship: Pragmatic Influences on Pronouns in German Sign Language, DGS. (September- December; co-PI, PI: Marcus Steinbach), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Investigating the Interplay between Language and Cognition in American Sign Language Referential Cohesion (BCS-1650581, co-PI. PI: Rachel Mayberry)
Awards and Honors
Outstanding Teaching Award, University of California, Irvine