Eta Schneidermann

Address: Department of Linguistics
University of Ottawa
401-70 Laurier Ave. East
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 6N5

Biodata:

Eta Schneiderman received her doctorate in Lingustics from SUNY/Buffalo in 1975 and, except for a brief interlude in 1975-76 at the Modern Language Centre of OISE, she has been teaching in the Department of Linguistics of the University of Ottawa ever since. For over twenty years, Professor Schneiderman has been pursuing a program of neurolinguistic research on cerebral hemisphere involvement in language processing and acquisition. Her research has focussed on morpho-syntactic, lexical and pragmatic processing in the brains of normal and brain damaged individuals, the symptoms and neural correlates of agrammatism, the unique neuropsychological traits of talented second language learners, and the acquisition of second language prosody by adult second language learners. Professor Schneiderman has also worked on language attitudes and language retention in minority situations.

Short CV:

Degrees:

Ph.D., Linguistics, S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo, 1975.

M.A., Linguistics, S.U N.Y. at Buffalo, 1972.

B.A., Honours Anthropology, McGill University, 1970.

Employment history:

1997 through present Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

1999 through 2003 Chair, Committee on Graduate Studies, Department of

Linguistics, University of Ottawa

1994 through 1996 Chair, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa

1982 through 1994 Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Ottawa

1976-82 Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics

University of Ottawa

1975-76 Research Officer, Modern Language Centre

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Honours and fellowships:

1980 Awarded Merit Increase, University of Ottawa

1972-75 Canada Council Doctoral Fellow

1971 Fellow, Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute

RECENT RESEARCH FUNDING

2002 Teaching/Learning Grant, University of Ottawa, “Preparation of PowerPoint Slides with Anatomical Diagrams and Course Materials for LIN 3555-Neurolinguistique,” $6,247.00.

2001 Research Grant, University of Ottawa, “Assessment of Morpho-syntactic Abilities in Brain-Damaged Populations,” $3200.

2001 Research Grant, Faculty of Arts (Research and Development Fund), “Assessment of Morpho-syntactic Abilities in Brain-Damaged Populations,” $3152.60.

2000 Teaching/Learning Grant, University of Ottawa, “Preparation of French Language Materials for a Course in Neurolinguistics”, $6,600 (including $2000 from the Faculty of Arts).

1995 Research Grant, University of Ottawa, “Controlled Input/Variable Output: An Exploration of the Source of Individual Differences in the Post-Secondary French Profiency Levels on Early Immersion Students”, $2,000.

1993 Research Grant, Faculty of Arts (Research and Development Fund), “Graduate Development Plan for ’94-96”, $6,070.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Some Thoughts on a Substrate Underlying Second Language Learning Talent (Including a Case Study of a Rather Singular Successful Adult Language Learner).” In P.H. Nelde (Ed.), It's easy to mingle when you are bilingual. Bilingual and Contact Linguistics, Plurilingua XIII. Bonn: Dümmler. 1992. Pp. 153-163.

“A Neuropsychological Basis for Talent in Second Language Learning.” In L.K. Obler and D. Fein (Eds.), The Exceptional Brain: Neuropsychology of Talent and Special Abilities. New York: The Guilford Press. 1988. Pp. 103-126. E. Schneiderman and C. Desmarais.

PAPERS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

“Impaired Performance of Right Brain Damaged Patients on a Sentence Anagram Task” Brain and Cognition (to appear). K. Murasugi and E. Schneiderman

“Does Right Hemisphere Damaged Patients’ Impaired Performance on a Sentence Insertion Task Indicate a Syntactic or Lexical Level Deficit?” Brain and Language. 85:3: 377-384, June 2003. E. Schneiderman and K. Murasugi.

“Second Language Accent: The Role of the Pedagogical Environment.” International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. XXXI/2. May 1993. Pp. 143-160. C. Champagne-Muzar, E. Schneiderman, and J. Bourdages.

“Story Arrangement Ability in Right Brain-Damaged Patients.” Brain and Language. 43. 1992. Pp 107-120. E. Schneiderman, K. Murasugi, J. Saddy.