Last modified on : June, 2009 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 Books: Minimum of English Grammar: An Introduction to Feature Theory (University Readers, 2009) Foreword and Chapter 1 The Acquisition of Functional Categories Preface Recent Publications, Papers & Talks: Some New Perspectives on Lexical and Functional Categories: Revisiting ‘Brown’s Fourteen Grammatical Morphemes’.(Presented Feb. 2008 at CSUB) (To appear in the Journal 'GLOSSA' Oct. 2009) Link to Journal 'GLOSSA' The nature of the input. Dec. 2006 (UCLA) The nature of the input: Tracing the INFL affix through the Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development. (Presented at UMass on May 2006, and at UCLA on Dec. 2006) The Acquisition of Inflection and the Dual Mechanism Model (Stanford, CLRF Proceedings 2004) Link to Stanford, 'CLRF Proceedings' 2004 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: A Student Study Guide to English Grammar and Syntactic Structure - A companion workbook (English 302) [text version] [PDF pt.I] [PDF pt.II] Other Papers Abstracts: Merge over Move: Children's failure to apply local movement at stage-1 GALA Abstract The nature of the input, UMass abstract 2006 The nature of the input: Abstract. Dec. 2006--UCLA Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]: English 301: Intro to Language and Linguistics English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar Linguistics 325: Modern English Grammar (CSULB) Linguistics 329: Intro to Linguistics and Language Acquisition (CSULB) Linguistics 339: Linguistics for Cross-Cultural Academic Development English 405: Language Variation and Change English 405: Lecture II Review--Creole English 405: Lecture III Review--Language Variation and Change Linguistics 417: Child Language Development Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Lecture 'How conservative are children at matching their internal grammars to their external input? Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Chapter on Phonology Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--A Synthesis on Representational stages of Phonology and Morphology Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Data Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Syntax Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Parameters English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar (Fall 2008 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 302 lecture transcripts (unedited) English 301: Intro to Language & Linguistics (Fall 2009 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 301 lecture transcripts (unedited) 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 : June, 2009
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:
Books:
Recent Publications, Papers & Talks: Some New Perspectives on Lexical and Functional Categories: Revisiting ‘Brown’s Fourteen Grammatical Morphemes’.(Presented Feb. 2008 at CSUB) (To appear in the Journal 'GLOSSA' Oct. 2009) Link to Journal 'GLOSSA' The nature of the input. Dec. 2006 (UCLA) The nature of the input: Tracing the INFL affix through the Dual Mechanism Model of Language Development. (Presented at UMass on May 2006, and at UCLA on Dec. 2006) The Acquisition of Inflection and the Dual Mechanism Model (Stanford, CLRF Proceedings 2004) Link to Stanford, 'CLRF Proceedings' 2004 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: A Student Study Guide to English Grammar and Syntactic Structure - A companion workbook (English 302) [text version] [PDF pt.I] [PDF pt.II] Other Papers Abstracts: Merge over Move: Children's failure to apply local movement at stage-1 GALA Abstract The nature of the input, UMass abstract 2006 The nature of the input: Abstract. Dec. 2006--UCLA Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]: English 301: Intro to Language and Linguistics English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar Linguistics 325: Modern English Grammar (CSULB) Linguistics 329: Intro to Linguistics and Language Acquisition (CSULB) Linguistics 339: Linguistics for Cross-Cultural Academic Development English 405: Language Variation and Change English 405: Lecture II Review--Creole English 405: Lecture III Review--Language Variation and Change Linguistics 417: Child Language Development Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Lecture 'How conservative are children at matching their internal grammars to their external input? Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Chapter on Phonology Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--A Synthesis on Representational stages of Phonology and Morphology Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Data Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Syntax Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Parameters English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar (Fall 2008 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 302 lecture transcripts (unedited) English 301: Intro to Language & Linguistics (Fall 2009 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 301 lecture transcripts (unedited) 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)
Recent Publications, Papers & Talks:
Analyzing English Grammar: A Student Study Guide to English Grammar and Syntactic Structure - A companion workbook (English 302) [text version] [PDF pt.I] [PDF pt.II] Other Papers Abstracts: Merge over Move: Children's failure to apply local movement at stage-1 GALA Abstract The nature of the input, UMass abstract 2006 The nature of the input: Abstract. Dec. 2006--UCLA Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]: English 301: Intro to Language and Linguistics English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar Linguistics 325: Modern English Grammar (CSULB) Linguistics 329: Intro to Linguistics and Language Acquisition (CSULB) Linguistics 339: Linguistics for Cross-Cultural Academic Development English 405: Language Variation and Change English 405: Lecture II Review--Creole English 405: Lecture III Review--Language Variation and Change Linguistics 417: Child Language Development Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Lecture 'How conservative are children at matching their internal grammars to their external input? Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Chapter on Phonology Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--A Synthesis on Representational stages of Phonology and Morphology Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Data Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Syntax Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Parameters English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar (Fall 2008 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 302 lecture transcripts (unedited) English 301: Intro to Language & Linguistics (Fall 2009 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 301 lecture transcripts (unedited) 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)
Other Papers Abstracts: Merge over Move: Children's failure to apply local movement at stage-1 GALA Abstract The nature of the input, UMass abstract 2006 The nature of the input: Abstract. Dec. 2006--UCLA Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]: English 301: Intro to Language and Linguistics English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar Linguistics 325: Modern English Grammar (CSULB) Linguistics 329: Intro to Linguistics and Language Acquisition (CSULB) Linguistics 339: Linguistics for Cross-Cultural Academic Development English 405: Language Variation and Change English 405: Lecture II Review--Creole English 405: Lecture III Review--Language Variation and Change Linguistics 417: Child Language Development Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Lecture 'How conservative are children at matching their internal grammars to their external input? Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--Chapter on Phonology Linguistics 417 Lecture I Review--A Synthesis on Representational stages of Phonology and Morphology Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Data Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Syntax Linguistics 417 Lecture II Review--Parameters English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar (Fall 2008 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 302 lecture transcripts (unedited) English 301: Intro to Language & Linguistics (Fall 2009 lecture transcripts)[PDF]: English 301 lecture transcripts (unedited) 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)
Abstracts:
Teaching related material: class abstracts & syllabi [PDF]:
English 302: Intro to Modern Grammar (Fall 2008 lecture transcripts)[PDF]:
English 301: Intro to Language & Linguistics (Fall 2009 lecture transcripts)[PDF]:
Working Papers
Suggestions for Topics of MA Theses:
(you must have Acrobat Reader to read PDF files)
