Lindsay Kay Butler

Human Language Production Lab Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627-0268 Phone/Fax: Email: Homepage: (585) 273-1050 lindsaykaybutler@gmail.com http://www.u.arizona.edu/lkbutler

Education
Degrees
Ph.D. Linguistics, minor in Cognitive Science, University of Arizona, 2011 M.A. Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2005 B.A. Spanish, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, 2002

Other universities attended

Visiting Researcher - Junior Specialist, Linguistics Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010 - 2011 Visiting Graduate Student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, 2009 Coursework in Yucatec Maya, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, 2004 Exchange student, La Universidad de las Amricas, Puebla, Mexico, 2001

Employment
University of Rochester, Graduate and Post-doctoral Researcher, 2009-2012 University of Arizona, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant/Associate, 2005-2009 University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Graduate Teaching Assistant, 2004 - 2005

Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
The DP-adjoined plural in Yucatec Maya and the syntax of plural marking Manuscript under review, 2011 Effects of accessibility on order, voice and verb form in Yucatec Maya and Spanish Manuscript in preparation, 2011

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Proceedings
Learning to express visual contrasts in the production of referring expressions in Yucatec Maya with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011 Psycholinguistics and under-represented languages: Number in Yucatec Maya sentence production with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer Coyote Papers: Working papers in Linguistics 18, Proceedings of WCCFL 29, University of Arizona, 2011 Allomorphy and Impoversihment in Shiwilu Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, UC Santa Barbara, 2011 Exceptional blocking of Yucatec Maya vowel harmony LSO Working Papers in Linguistics: Proceedings of Workshop in General Linguistics, pp. 25-39, 2005

Presentations
Talks
Allomorphy and Impoverishment in Shiwilu 14th Workshop on American Indian Languages, UC Santa Barbara, April 15, 2011 When number doesnt Agree: Evidence from Yucatec Maya 85th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, January 7, 2011 Argument encoding and valence changing in Kawapanan with Pilar Valenzuela Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco, January 10, 2009 Exceptional blocking of vowel harmony in Yucatec Maya: An argument for a syntactic approach to word formation Workshop in General Linguistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, February 25, 2005

Posters
Learning to express visual contrasts in the production of referring expressions in Yucatec Maya with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Special Session on the Production of Referring Expressions, July 20, 2011. Psycholinguistics and under-represented languages: Number in Yucatec Maya sentence production with T. Florian Jaeger and Juergen Bohnemeyer West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, University of Arizona, April 24, 2011. Psycholinguistics in the eld: Accessibility-based production in Yucatec Maya with T. Florian Jaeger Katrina Furth, Alice Lemiuex, Carlos Gomez Gallo and and Juergen Bohnemeyer CUNY 2010: Conference on Human Sentence Processing, New York, March 18, 2010 IEICE Workshop of the TEchnical Committee on Thought and Language, Tokyo, Japan, August 5, 2010.

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Teaching
Instructor of Record
Linguistics/Psychology 210: Introduction to Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2009, 2010 Individuals and Societies 101: Mind, brain and Language: Language, University of Arizona, 2008

Teaching Assistant
Individuals and Societies 101: Mind, brain and Language: Language, University of Arizona, 2006, 2009 Linguistics/American Indian Studies 210: American Indian Languages, University of Arizona, 2008 Linguistics 100: The Diversity of Human Language, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2004, 2005

Other Academic Employment

Research Assistant/Spanish and Portuguese translation, Linguistics Abstracts, 2005 - 2007 Student Editor of Book Reviews, The Linguist List, 2005 - 2006

Fellowships/Grants/Awards
Social and Behavioral Sciences Dissertation Improvement Grant, University of Arizona, 2010 Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Award, University of Arizona, 2010 Graduate College Fellowship, Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, 2010 J. William Fulbright student grant to Peru, 2007 - 2008 Alice Cozzi Heritage Language Foundation Small Grant, with Scott Farrar, 2006 Graduate College Fellowship, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, 2006 Graduate Student Travel Award, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2004 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2004

Service Activities
Reviewer, Lingua, 2011 Coordinating Committee, West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 29, University of Arizona, 2011 Reviewer, Graduate and Professional Student Council Travel Grants, University of Arizona, 2010 Faculty-Student Liaison, Linguistics Circle Student Organization, University of Arizona, 2007 Student Coordinator, Department of Linguistics Colloquium Series, University of Arizona, 2006 Volunteer, American Indian Language Development Institute, University of Arizona, 2006

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Student Representative, Graduate Coordinating Committee, Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 2004 - 2005 Volunteer Conversation Partner, ESL Institute, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, 2001

Professional Associations
Linguistic Society of America, 2004 - present Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, 2004 - present American Association of University Women, 2010 - present

Language Prociencies
Natural
Spanish, uent, non-native Portuguese, working Yucatec Maya, elementary French, elementary

Programming
HTML, intermediate LaTeX, intermediate R, basic

Last updated: June 20, 2011 http://www.u.arizona.edu/~lkbutler