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Name: Dr. Jeannette C. Schaeffer

Faculty: Social Sciences and Humanities

Department: Foreign Literatures and Linguistics

Rank: Lecturer

Degree: Ph.D. [UCLA]

Areas of Research:
First Language Acquisition
Neurolinguistics
Developmental Language Disorders, Linguistic Theory.

Neuroscience Courses:
Topics in Language Acquisition

Research Students:
Leah Gedalyovich
Galina Gordishevsky
Aviya Hacohen

Selected Publications:
Schaeffer, Jeannette (1998)
‘Maaike Verrips' “Potatoes must peel: The acquisition of the Dutch passive” ‘.
Glot International, 2-9/10:10-13.

Schaeffer, Jeannette (2000)
'Aphasia research and theoretical linguistics guiding each other'.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23:1.

Embick, David, Martin Hackl, Jeannette Schaeffer, Meltem Kelepir and Alec Marantz (2001)
'A magnetoencephalographic component whose latency reflects lexical frequency'.
Cognitive Brain Research, 10:345-348.

Schaeffer, Jeannette (2002)
‘On the acquisition of reference’.
Glot International, 6:2/3.

Schaeffer, Jeannette (2002).
‘The mystery of children’s embedded V2’.
Glot International, 6:9/10:307-313.

Levy, Yonata and Jeannette Schaeffer (eds.)
Language Competence across populations: Towards a definition of SLI.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003.

Wexler, Ken, Jeannette Schaeffer and Gerard Bol (2004).
Verbal syntax and morphology in Dutch normal and SLI children: How developmental data can play an important role in morphological theory.
Syntax 7 (2), 148-198.

Schaeffer, Jeannette and Dorit Ben Shalom (2004).
On Root Infinitives in child Hebrew. Language Acquisition 12 (1), 83-96.

Schaeffer, Jeannette and Lisa Matthewson (2005).
Grammar and pragmatics in the acquisition of article systems.
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 23, 53-201.

Curtiss, Susan and Jeannette Schaeffer (2005).
Syntactic development in children with hemispherectomy: The I-, D-, and C-Systems.
Brain and Language 94, 147-166.