Last modified on : Aug. 2008 Department of English, California State University - Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, California 91330 U.S.A. Tel: 1 (818) 677-3431 http://www.csun.edu/peoplefinder Office: Sierra Tower 425 Tel: 1 (818) 677-0916 (677-0917) Fax: 1 (818) 677-3872 e-mail: joseph.galasso@csun.edu Personal Faculty Profile CV My research interests are: First and second language acquisition Syntactic processing and the dual mechanism model Publications and Papers available on the Web: The Acquisition of Functional Categories Preface Some New Perspectives on Lexical and Functional Categories: Revisiting ‘Brown’s Fourteen Grammatical Morphemes’. Presented Feb. 2008 at CSUB The nature of the input: Abstract. Dec. 2006--UCLA The nature of the input: Outline of Talk Dec. 2006--UCLA The nature of the input: Tracing the INFL affix through the Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development (Full Paper). Presented May 2006 at UMass, and Dec. 2006 at UCLA The Acquisition of Inflection and the Dual Mechanism Model CLRF Proceedings 2004--Stanford Towards a Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development 2004 The Dual Mechanism model: Towards a 'Converging Theories' Hypothesis of Language Acquisition 2003 Analyzing English Grammar: An Introduction to Feature Theory - A Companion Handbook (English 302) [text version] [PDF pt.I] [PDF pt.II] Other Publications and Papers Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]: English 301: Intro to Language and Linguistics English 302: English Grammar Linguistics 329: Intro to Linguistics and Language Acquisition (CSULB) Linguistics 339: Linguistics for Cross-Cultural Academic Development English 405: Language Variation and Change Linguistics 417: Language Acquisition Linguistics 417 Lecture I Exam Review Linguistics 417 Lecture II Data Linguistics 417 Lecture II Syntax Linguistics 417 Lecture II Parameters Working Papers A Note on Pedagogy, Topics and Ways of Understanding Child Language Acquisition: A Working Paper A Working Paper on Second Language Acquisition Research Suggestions for Topics of MA Theses: (in preparation) (you must have Acrobat Reader to read PDF files)
Last modified on : Aug. 2008
Department of English, California State University - Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, California 91330 U.S.A. Tel: 1 (818) 677-3431 http://www.csun.edu/peoplefinder
Office: Sierra Tower 425 Tel: 1 (818) 677-0916 (677-0917) Fax: 1 (818) 677-3872 e-mail: joseph.galasso@csun.edu
Personal Faculty Profile CV
My research interests are:
Publications and Papers available on the Web:
Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]:
Working Papers
Suggestions for Topics of MA Theses:
(you must have Acrobat Reader to read PDF files)