My research focuses on Deaf and bilingual language processing and its interaction with cognition. I am interested in what bilingualism and sign language use reveals about how language and cognition interact more broadly.
Before coming to Brooklyn College, I was a postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Dr. Judith Kroll (UC Irvine). From 2020-2022, my research was supported by the National Science Foundation. From 2019-2020, I was a UC Irvine Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow. I hold a PhD. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego, where I worked in the Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development under the supervision of Rachel Mayberry.
Research Interests:
- Bimodal bilingualism
- Referential cohesion in American Sign Language
- The role of gesture in discourse and narratives
Publications
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Judith F. Kroll (2022). Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages Languages.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2022). Pronoun Production and Comprehension in American Sign Language: The Interaction of Space, Grammar, and Semantics. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2021). Emerging ASL distinctions in sign-speech bilinguals’ signs and cospeech gestures in descriptions of placement events. Frontiers in Psychology.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2021). Implicit Causality Biases and Thematic Roles in American Sign Language. Behavior Research Methods.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2018). Reference tracking in early stages of different modality L2 acquisition: Limited over-explicitness in novice ASL signers’ referring expressions. Second Language Research.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2017). Separating Viewpoint from Mode of Representation in Iconic Co-Speech Gestures: Insights from Danish Narratives. Language and Cognition.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2016). Who’s on First? Investigating the Referential Hierarchy in Simple Native ASL Narratives. Lingua.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2016). Hold + stroke gesture sequences as cohesion devices: Examples from Danish narratives. San Diego Linguistics Papers.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2015). 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
Selected talks and posters
- Attali, Noa, Amnon Attali, & Anne Therese Frederiksen (2023). This doesn’t fascinate me, I’m fascinated by this. Subjects are experiencers in psychological verb use. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 5-8
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2022). Pronouns and processing in hearing and d/Deaf language users. Invited talk at the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Colloquium, the Graduate Center, City University of New York, October 26
- Anne Therese Frederiksen & Rachel I. Mayberry (2022). Number of competing referents matters for choice of pronoun in ASL. Theoretical Issues in Sign Languages Research, September 27-30
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2021). Referential Cohesion & the Referential Hierarchy in American Sign Language. Invited Talk at the International Sign Language Research, Hamburg University, July 7
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2020). Second Language Acquisition of Placement Cross-Modally: A View from Hearing Learners of ASL. Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 5-8, 2020
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Judith F. Kroll (2020). L1 Influences on Thematic Roles in the English of Deaf Signers of American Sign Language. Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium, September 22.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Judith F. Kroll (2020). Thematic Roles and Implicit Causality Verb Biases in the English of Deaf Signers of American Sign Language. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, September 3-5.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2019). Pronouns in American Sign Language: Fully referentially specified but affected by pragmatics anyway. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, January 3-6.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese (2018). Pronouns, Space and Implicit Causality Biases in American Sign Language. Invited Talk at the Linguistics in Göttingen Colloquium Series, Georg-August University, Göttingen, November 28
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2018). Implicit Causality Biases and Thematic Roles in ASL Verbs. Architecture and Mechanisms of Language Processing, September 6-8.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry (2017). Pronouns don’t (only) point: Investigating sensitivity to space and saliency in anaphor choice in American Sign Language. 30th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, March 30 – April 1
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese, Marla Hatrak & Rachel I. Mayberry (2016). Grammar and Gesture in Late Acquisition of ASL Cohesive Devices. Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 12, January 4-7.
- Frederiksen, Anne Therese and Rachel I. Mayberry (2015). Development of L1 reference tracking after childhood: Knowing the pieces but not where they fit in the puzzle. 2nd International Conference on Sign Language Acquisition, July 1-3.
Contact Information
Anne Therese FrederiksenDepartment of Language Science
University of California, Irvine 2239
Social Science Plaza B
Irvine, CA 92697