Resume

• 1983

  English

  French

  German

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Linguistics

  University of Zurich

• General Linguistics

  Psycholinguistics

  Research

  Neurolinguistics

  Gesture and Aphasia

  The book consists of two parts

  a theoretical and an empirical section. In the theoretical section the reader is thoroughly introduced to the wide field of aphasia research from its humble beginnings to the present. Different causes of aphasia are described and illustrated in detail. In addition

  different aphasia subtypes are outlined and historical

  neuroanatomical

  and linguistic information

  is provided. Another section is devoted to the field of gesture research. The approaches of the most important gesture researchers are introduced

  compared

  as well as critically committed on. A last chapter is dedicated to the study of gestural use of aphasic populations. Finally

  the empirical part of this publication assesses the gestural behavior of aphasic patients and neurologically unimpaired control subject in a series of linguistic tests.

  Gesture and Aphasia

  For the last ten years I have taught a variety of classes in linguistics

  such as Introduction to Linguistics

  The History of the English Language

  Psycholinguistics - Language and the Mind

  Sociolinguistics - Language in Society

  Introduction to Language Acquisition

  The Nature of Language

  as well as beginning and intermediate German.\nBesides linguistics and linguistic research

  I have always had a passion for teaching and have spent a considerable amount of time in classrooms teaching almost all levels from elementary school to university. Based on my belief that a classroom should be a place where student interaction

  exchange

  and critical thinking are fostered

  my teaching method is one that focuses on dialogue rather than on frontal teaching. By creating a productive learning environment

  I have been able to spark my students’ interest in linguistics and to turn a large number of them into enthusiastic prospective linguists transferring to top linguistics programs at schools such as Stanford

  UCLA

  Berkeley

  UC Santa Cruz

  Boston University

  etc.\nFinally

  my scholarly interests focus mainly on psycholinguistics

  neurolinguistics

  and basic linguistic theory. I have had the honor to be part of a large European Union Grant project on voice and depression

  whose goal it was to detect and monitor depression by means of spectral voice analysis. \nPrevious research projects of mine included the linguistic analysis of the language of psychiatric patients

  syntactic complexity of the language of people suffering from schizophrenia

  and the gestural behavior of aphasic patients.\n

  Petra

  Lott

  Pasadena City College

  California State University

  Long Beach

  Long Beach

  Professor

  California State University

  Long Beach

  Pasadena

  Professor

  Pasadena City College