Erin Wilkinson
Erin Wilkinson
I am a professor in the Linguistics department at the University of Manitoba. My research mainly explores linguistic structures across signed languages in order to inform more about modality-specific and modality-independent properties.
My primary research interests encompass a variety of sub-fields framed by the cognitive-functionalist approach. To name few, I am interested in language typology, usage-based grammar, and corpus linguistics of signed languages. My most recent work examined kinship terminologies of forty signed languages’ kinship terminologies, contributing to a better understanding about typological variation in visual-gestural languages. More broadly, I explore patterns in grammar and the phenomenon of iconicity across different signed languages to examine what similarities and differences arise among signed languages from various parts of the world.
I also collaborate with researchers who are affiliated with the Science of Learning Center on Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) on psycholinguistic studies on cross-language processing in bimodal-bilingual population.
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Manitoba
536 Fletcher Argue
Winnipeg, MB
R3T 5V5 CANADA
Research areas of interest
language typology
construction grammar
corpus linguistics
cognitive-functional linguistics
language documentation
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