Education

B.A. 1980 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Interdisciplinary Studies)
M.A. 1988 Cornell University (Linguistics)
Ph.D. 1993 Cornell University (Linguistics)

Professional experience

1980-1981 English Instructor, Instituto 112, Valencia, Spain.
1981-1982 English Instructor, Self-employed, Seville, Spain.
1982-1984 Teaching Assistant, UNC at Chapel Hill.
1984-1988 Teaching Assistant, Cornell University.
1988-1991 Adjunct Instructor, Rutgers University.
1991-1998 Assistant Professor, Tulane University.
1998-present Associate Professor, Tulane University.

Publications

1. "Semantic Automata for Restrictive and Appositive Adjectives" (1991) The Penn Review of Linguistics 15:89-101.
2. "The algebraic structure of prepositions in localist prototype semantics" (1993) In Katharine Beals, et al., eds. CLS 29, vol. 2. What We Think, What We Mean, and How We Say It: Papers from the Parasession on the Correspondence of Conceptual, Semantic and Grammatical Representations, pp. 155-170. Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, Illinois.
3. "A System for Syllabification of Spanish" (1994) in Actas del X Congreso de la Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain. With Robert Goldman.
4. "Mood Selection in Spanish and Lattice Structure" (1994) In Carlos Martín Vide, ed. Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Artificiales X . Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias, S. A., Barcelona, Spain. pp. 435-442.
5. "Focal Movement and Mood in English" (1994) In Peter Bosch & Rob van der Sandt, eds. Focus & Natural Language Processing, vol. 2. Semantics. Working Papers of the Institute for Logic and Linguistics, IBM Deutschland Informationssysteme GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany. pp. 333-342.
6. "Two Sorts of Parts" (1994) In European Conference on Artificial Intelligence '94, Workshop W2. Parts and Wholes: Conceptual Part-Whole Relations and Formal Mereology. Centre d'Etudes Cognitives sur la Communication et la Culture, Ramonville St. Agne, France. pp. 141-144.
7. "Hipertexto y terminología plurilingüe: implementación de un vocabulario de informática para Windows y Web" (1995) Procesamento del Lenguaje Natural. 17:84-100. With Javier Gómez Guinovart and Anxo Lorenzo Suárez.
8. Proceedings of Language South of the Río Bravo (1996), edited by Harry Howard. Tulane University.
9. "Extending lattice theory to new domains" (1996) In Proceedings of Language South of the Río Bravo, edited by Harry Howard.
10. "If not functionalism, then what - eliminative materialism?" (1999) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22(6):955-6.
11. "Latin American Spanish" (2000) In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, edited by Daniel Balderston, Ana Lopez & Mike Gonzalez. Routledge.
12. "Latin American language policy" (2000) In Encyclopedia of Contemporary Latin American Culture, edited by Daniel Balderston, Ana Lopez & Mike Gonzalez. Routledge.
13. "Age/gender morphemes inherit the biases of their underlying dimensions" (2001) In Language and Ideology, edited by Esra Sandikcioglu and René Dirven. John Benjamins.
14. "Entropic vs. negentropic causation" (2001) In Linguagem e Cognição: A perspectiva da Linguística Cognitiva, edited by Augusto Soares da Silva. Associação Portuguesa de Linguística.
15. Connectionist semantics: Coordinators, quantifiers, and collective predicates. (2004) Elsevier Scientific.
16. "Four challenges for cognitive neuroscience and the cortico-hippocampal division of memory" (2004) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27:681-2.
17. "Simulated evolution of a radial category for the diminutive" (2006) In Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide, Inchaurralde, Carlos y Jesús M. Sánchez-García (eds.) Language, Mind, and the Lexicon. Hamburg: Peter Lang.
18. Howard, Harry (2007) Sparseness and Entropy in Semantic Change: Precedents from Early Vision. Cognitive Linguistics: From words to discourse. Special issue of International Journal of English Studies 7/1:17-34.

In press

Work submitted for publication

Book reviews

1. Romance Languages and Modern Linguistic Theory. Ed. by Paul Hirschbühler and Konrad Koerner. Forthcoming in Language.
2. Discourse, Interaction and Communication. Ed. by Arrozola, Korta and Pelletier. For Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Conference papers

1. "The Internal Semantic Structure of Noun Phrases." North Eastern Regional Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. University of Rhode Island, Sept. 21, 1990.
2. "Semantic Automata for Restrictive and Appositive Adjectives." The Fifteenth Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium. Feb. 15, 1991.
3. "Uniqueness, Monotonicity and File Automata." The Second Meeting of the Formal Linguistics Society of Midamerica. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. May 1991.
4. "Fronting Adverbials in English and Spanish." 20th Linguistic Association of the Southwest. University of Arizona at Tucson. Oct. 17, 1992.
5. "F-Movement is to [Spec, PolP], not to a Recursive [Spec, CP]." 48th South Eastern Conference on Linguistics. Auburn University. April 2, 1993.
6. "Against Topicalization as Adjunction in Spanish." 23rd. Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages. Northern Illinois University. April 3, 1993.
7. "There is no adverb preposing but topicalization." 46th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky at Lexington. April 24, 1993.
8. "The semantics of adverbial modification and the inexistence of Adverb Preposing in Spanish." 50th meeting, South Central Modern Language Association. University of Texas at Austin. Oct. 15, 1993.
9. "The lattice structure and update potential of copula selection in Spanish." 1994 Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America. Boston, Massachusetts. Jan. 7, 1994.
10. "A System for Syllabification of Spanish" Tenth annual meeting of the Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Universidad de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain. July 21, 1994.
11. "Mood Selection in Spanish and Lattice Structure" Tenth annual Congreso de Lenguajes Naturales y Lenguajes Artificiales. Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain. Sept. 28, 1994.
12. "Transitive Antipassives in Kaqchikel" III Encuentro de Lingüística. Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, México. Nov. 17, 1994.
13. "Locative, existential, and possessional clauses in Kaqchikel (Maya)" 1995 Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, Jan. 7, 1995.
14. "Extending lattice theory into new domains" Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Río Bravo. Tulane University, Jan. 10, 1995.
15. "Cliticization in Old Spanish and the Principle of Phonology-Free Syntax." 48th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky at Lexington. April 21, 1995.
16. "Spanish datives: cognitive schema vs. dynamic event semantics" 1995 International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. July 17, 1995.
17. "Relativized Minimality as Backward Masking" Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics. 23rd Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium. April 20, 1996.
18. "LVQ networks for quantifiers and conjunctions." 5^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Amsterdam. July 1997.
19. "Spanish diminutives and neocognitron-type neural processing" First International Conference of the Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognoscitiva, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain. May 6, 1998.
20. "Does the central nervous system impose biased representations on cognition?" 6^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of Stockholm. July 16, 1999.
21. "A neuromimetic synchronization account of the distinguishability universal, with illustration from Spanish" International Conference on 'Cognitive Typology', Center for Grammar, Cognition and Typology, University of Antwerp, Belgium. April 12, 2000.
22. "Figure and ground in lateralized oscillator nets and Spanish prepositions" II Congreso Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. May 17, 2000.
23. "Entropic vs. negentropic causation" Linguagem e Cognição: a perspectiva da Linguística Cognitiva, Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Braga, Portugal. May 22, 2000.
24. "Ergative possession in Kaqchikel" 29th annual meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Puebla, Mexico. October 13, 2000.
25. "Temporal frequency and the preterite/imperfect aspectual contrast in Spanish" 4th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, University of Indiana, Bloomington. November 18, 2000.
26. "Bilingualism as social cognition: Language choice in Paraguay". Seventh International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-01) Donostia/San Sebastián, Spain May 9-12, 2001.
27. "A reference-point analysis for the ergative in Kaqchikel (Maya)". III Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva. Valencia, Spain. May 16, 2002.
28. "Spanish mood as contrast enhancement". High Desert Linguistics Conference. Albuquerque, NM. Nov. 2, 2002.
29. "Subjectivity and the right hemisphere: evidence from adverbs of quality". 8^th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. University of La Rioja, Logroño, Spain. July 24, 2003.
30. "Simulated evolution of a radial category for the diminutive". IV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva. Zaragoza, Spain. May 14, 2004.
31. "The spatial lexicon and the cortico-hippocampal division of memory". From gram to mind: Grammar as cognition. University 'Michel de Montaigne'. Bordeaux (France) May 19-21 2005.
32. "Input vs. network effects in the multiagent modeling of morphological leveling in Old Castilian". 35th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. Texas A&M International University, Laredo, TX. Sept. 29, 2006.
33. "Cognitive Linguistics, an efficient encoding of language". V International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association. Murcia, Spain. Oct. 20, 2006.
34. “Recursion and the computational modeling of prefrontal cortex”. Recursion Conference, Illinois State University, Normal, IL. April 28, 2007.
35. “Linguistic motivation, chaos, and the right hemisphere: evidence from the Spanish diminutive”. Deuxième Colloque International d’AFLiCo/Second International AFLiCo Conference. Université Lille 3, Lille, France. May 12, 2007.
36. "An early steady state in the 'orígenes' of American Spanish: computer simulation and synthetic dialectology". Hispanic Linguistics Conference 2007, University of Texas at San Antonio. Nov. 4, 2007.

Invited talks

1. "Neural network oscillators and stress." Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon. Nov. 19, 1998.
2. "Does mereotopology follow from basic principles of brain organization? - A simulated answer." Winter Symposium, The Role of Language in Cognition and Culturization. Center for Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Jan. 26, 1999.
3. "El diminutivo español" Universidad de Guanajuato. August 18, 1999.
4. "The part/whole structure of causative/inchoatives and hemispheric lateralization" Winter Symposium, The Structure of Causal Meaning. Center for Semiotic Research, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Jan. 28, 2000.
5. "Disjuncts, subcortical aphasia, and the thalamocortical loop" Dept. of Linguistics, Rice University. Feb. 8, 2001.
6. “Radial processing and declarative memory; hierarchical processing and procedural memory”. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. May 15, 2007.

Demonstrations & workshops on Academic Technology

1. "Document Searching from the World Wide Web" Workshop on Louisiana French Corpora. Tulane University. March 17, 1995.
2. "The History of Spanish" Speaking Spanish in the Americas: Dialects and Accents. Curriculum Resource Center Spring Workshop. Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University. April 18, 1995.
3. "A Guerrilla Guide to Academic Technology" Environmental Faculty Enhancement Seminar, May 10, 1996.
4. "Using the Internet for Research" The 1996 Coca-Cola Summer Scholars. June 7, 1996.
5. "Multimedia Approaches to Undergraduate Teaching" Tulane University President's Council, 1996 Fall Meeting. Nov. 1, 1996.
6. "Internet Tools for Language Teaching" Technology in Education Symposium, Tulane University, April 5, 1997.
7. "Electronic Technologies and Teaching in the Humanities and Languages: A Panel Discussion" Technology in Education Symposium, Tulane University, April 5, 1997.
8. "Electronic resources for Spanish Linguistics" South Central Association for Language Learning Technology, Tulane University, March 28, 1998.
9. "Spanish Linguistics on the World Wide Web" in "Cultural Criticism and the New Technologies: Task-Driven Applications in the Modern Language Curriculum", special session of the South Central Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans, November, 1998.

Courses taught at Tulane

• 2009 Spring
  • Spanish Grammar (SPAN 413.03)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism (SPAN 606)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism Service Learning (SPAN 489)
  • Comparative Syntax (SPAN 500) [honor's thesis]
  • Music Cognition (MUSC 495, NSCI 466, NSCI 710)
• 2008 Fall
  • Intermediate Syntax (ANTH 491) [independent study]
  • Brain & Language (LING 411/412, NSCI 411/611)
  • Brain & Language Service Learning (LING 389, NSCI 389)
  • Spanish Phonetics & Phonology (SPAN 426)
  • Comparative Syntax (SPAN 499) [honor's thesis]
  • Object-Oriented Programming through Video Games (TIDE 184)
• 2008 Summer
  • Evolutionary Robotics (PHIL 492) [independent study]
• 2008 Spring
  • Computer Programming through Robotics (LING 682)
  • Introduction to Computer Programming (LING 796)
  • Computational motor control (NSCI 492) [independent study]
  • Research in Neuroscience (NSCI 798) [independent study]
• 2007 Fall
  • Syntax (ANTH 359/759)
  • Computational Neuroscience (NSCI 491)
  • Iberoamerican Dialectology (SPAN 427)
  • First Steps to Neuroscience (TIDE 127)
  • Spanglish (TIDE 184)
• 2007 Spring
  • Spanish Phonetics & Phonology (SPAN 426)
  • Methods of Teaching Spanish & Portuguese (SPAN 601)
  • Intro to Neural Modeling/Neural Network Design (NSCI 492) [independent study]
• 2006 Fall
  • Brain & Language (LING 411/689, NSCI 411/611)
  • Brain & Language Service Learning (LING 489)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism (SPAN 606)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism Service Learning (SPAN 489)
  • Speech Pathology (LING 491) [independent study]
  • Intro to Neural Modeling/Neural Network Design (NSCI 491) [independent study]
  • Our Digital World I (TIDL 105)
  • First Steps to Neuroscience (TIDL 127)
• 2006 Lagniappe
  • Elements of Spanish II (SPAN 102)
  • Spanish Intermediate Review (SPAN 112)
• 2006 Spring
  • Elements of Spanish III (SPAN 203.04)
  • Elements of Spanish III (SPAN 203.05)
  • Spanish Phonetics & Phonology (SPAN 426)
  • Our Digital World II (TIDL 115)
• 2005 Fall - on sabbatical
• 2005 Spring
  • Brain & Language (LING 411/681)
  • First Steps to Neuroscience (TIDL 127)
• 2004 Fall
  • Introduction to Syntax (ANTH 359/759)
  • Brain & Language (NSCI 491) [independent study]
  • Methods in Neuroscience (NSCI 680) [two sessions on computational neuroscience]
  • Iberoamerican Dialectology (SPAN 427)
  • First Steps to Neuroscience (TIDL 127)
• 2004 Spring
  • Computational Neuroscience (NSCI 492/NSIP 710) [independent study]
  • Advanced Grammar and Composition (SPAN 325)
  • Spanish Phonetics & Phonology (SPAN 426)
  • Latin American Bilingualism (SPAN 795) [independent study]
• 2003 Fall
  • Brain & Language (LING 411/681)
  • Brain & Language Service Learning (LING 389)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism (SPAN 606)
  • Hispanic Bilingualism Service Learning (SPAN 389)
  • Our Digital World (TIDL 105)
• 2003 Spring
  • Computational Neuroscience (NSCI 492/NSIP 710) [independent study]
  • Advanced Grammar and Composition (SPAN 325)
  • Spanish Phonetics & Phonology (SPAN 426)
  • Advanced Dialectology (SPAN 600/LING 796) [independent study]
  • Our Digital World II (TIDL 115)
• Courses 2002 - 1991

New classes developed

• Spanish Phonetics and Phonology (SPAN 426).
• Introduction to Spanish Linguistics (SPAN 605).
• Iberoamerican Dialectology (SPAN 427).
• Semantics, the study of meaning (LING 301/701).
• Hispanic Bilingualism (SPAN 606).
• Brain and Language (LING 411/681).
• Our Digital World (TIDL105/115).
• Computational Neuroscience (NSCI 492/NSIP 710).
• First Steps to Neuroscience (TIDE 127).
• Spanglish (TIDE 184).

Thesis and dissertation committees

• Latin American Studies
  • Minor Field of Preliminary Examination for Brian Butcher, S94.
  • Master's Committee for Ruth Urry, F96-S97.
• Linguistics
  • Examining Committee, Oral Exam of Stephanie Thibodeaux. April 14, 1992.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Shane Lief. German Rhetoric. F92-S93.
  • Doctoral Committee for Rebecca Moreton. S94-F01.
  • Doctoral Committee for Tola Mosodami. F94-S97.
  • Doctoral Committee for Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill. F94-F98.
  • Doctoral Committee for Stephanie Thibodeaux. S95/
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Aimee Ashbaugh. F96-S97.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Melissa Kronenthal. Bilingual Education in the United States. F98-S99.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Mara Henderson. Language Contact in Southeast Asia, an Indonesian Example. F99-S00.
  • Doctoral Committee for John Moran. S00-F02.
  • Doctoral Committee for Lisbeth Philip. S00/
  • Doctoral Committee for Mary Walsh. S01/
  • Doctoral Committee for Aaron Nitzkin. S01-F08.
  • Doctoral Committee for Paulina DeSantis. S01-S07.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Laurel Fisher. The Effect of Spanish on Maya and Nahuatl. S02-F03.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Stephen Wiegand. Language: Simple to Complex. F02-S03.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Audrey Fort. F07-S08.
• Neuroscience
  • Master's Committee for Chuck Michelson. Characterization of the N2 Component of the Human Event-Related Potential in a Sentence Reading Paradigm. S02-S03.
• Psychology
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Stephen Axelrad. Distraction, Threat, and Persuasion. F97-S98.
  • Honors Thesis Committee for Joy Terrell. Differential Reactivity of the Modern Racism Scale and Linguistic Abstraction Measures. F98-S99.
• Spanish & Portuguese
  • Director of Honors Thesis for Ellen Stolzenberg, F96-S97.

Service

Service on committees

• University
  • Senate Committee on Computing, F93-F96.
  • SACS Reaccreditation Improvement Committee, F99-F00.
  • Senate Budget Review Committee, F01-F04.
  • Code of Student Conduct judicial pool, F03-S06.
  • CMS Advisory Committee, S06/
  • Center for Public Service Advisory Committee, S07/
• Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)/School of Liberal Arts (SLA)
  • Committee on Establishing the Capacity to Teach the Less Commonly Taught Languages at Tulane University, F92-S93.
  • Junior Year Abroad Faculty Advisory Committee, F93-S96.
  • Committee to Establish an AAHE Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable at Tulane, F96.
  • Liberal Arts & Sciences Informational Technology Task Force, S97.
  • Comparative Southern Studies Committee. F00-S01.
  • Service Learning Advisory Committee, F00-F02.
  • LAS Admissions Committee, F01-F04.
  • Student Academic Judiciary Committee (SAJC) F04-S06.
  • Chair, Student Academic Judiciary Committee (SAJC) S06.
  • SLA Grievance Committee, F06/
• Graduate School
  • Graduate School Curriculum Committee. F00-S01.
• Cognitive Studies
  • Member of Executive Committee, F03/
• Latin American Studies
  • Prize Committee. F99/
• Less Commonly Taught Languages
  • Advisor. F99-F01
  • Coordinator of Hindi & Swahili. S00-F01
• Linguistics
  • Maintain Web site. F99/
  • Member of Executive Committee, F03/
• Spanish & Portuguese
  • Junior Year Abroad Interview Committee, F91-F99
  • Co-chair of Library Committee, S92-F95
  • Chair of Library Committee, F96-S98.
  • Committee on Transfer Credit, S93-S98.
  • Computer Consultant, S94-S01.
  • Search Committee for Visiting Co-coordinator, S96.
  • Search Committee for Staff Language Coordinator, F96.
  • MLA Interview Committee for Medievalist. F99.
  • Constitution Committee. F00-S01.
  • 4+1 MA Committee. F00-S01.
  • Web site and poster committee. F00-S03.
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee. F00-S03.
  • MLA Interview Committee for Medievalist. F02.
  • Budget and Salary Committee. F02.
  • Grievance Committee. F02-S03.
  • Graduate Studies Committee. F03-F06.
  • Undergraduate Studies Committee. F06/
  • Center for Public Service Committee, S07/
• Spanish & Portuguese, German & Russian, Language Lab
• System manager of AppleTalk local area network, F95-F99.
• Manager of World Wide Web host, F95-F99.

Undergraduate advising

• Freshman Advisor, Newcomb College, F92-S93.
• Sophomore Advisor, Newcomb College, F93.
• Spanish Major Advisor, F93-S98.
• Linguistics Major Advisor, F95-S96.
• Freshman Advisor, Newcomb College, F97-S98.
• Spanish Major and Minor Advisor, F00-S03.
• Freshman Advisor, Newcomb College, F01-S03.
• Neuroscience Major Advisor, F02/
• Linguistics Major advisor, F02/
• Spanish Major and Minor Advisor, F06/

Other service and administration

• Newcomb Fellow, F94-F97.
• University Graduate Faculty, S95/
• Director of Linguistics Program, F95-S96.
• Acting Chair, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, 5/20/97-6/20/97.
• Associate Chair, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, S99-S00.
• Acting Director, Linguistics Program. S03.
• Director of Graduate Studies, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese. F03-S04

Awards and honors

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1978.

Grants

Internal Grants

• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1993. ($4000)
• Tulane Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 1993. ($4000)
• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1994. ($4000)
• Tulane Committee on Research Summer Fellowship for 1994. ($4000)
• Latin American Studies, organization of the Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Río Bravo, F94. ($4000)
• Office of the Provost, organization of the Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Río Bravo, F94. ($2000)
• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1995. ($3500)
• Latin American Studies, publication of the Proceedings of Language South of the Río Bravo, S96. ($500)
• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1996. ($2000) DECLINED
• Tulane Committee on Research Summer Fellowship, 1996. ($4000)
• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1998. ($3000) DECLINED
• Mellon Fellowship for summer research in Latin America, 1999. ($3000)
• Culpeper e-mentor for Spanish & Portuguese, $2400
• Culpeper grant to develop Website for "Spanish Phonetics & Phonology", F00. (release from one class)
• Wall Fund IV, Enhancement of Undergraduate and Graduate Education in the Neurosciences at Tulane, S03. ($200,000)
• Funding to invite John Lipski to lecture, F04: Center for Scholars ($370), Stone Center ($330), SPPT ($150).
• Stone Center Summer Faculty Research Grant, Summer '05. ($2000)
• Sociocognitive robotics. Grant from the Office of the Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, 2007 ($35,223)
• Faculty mentor for William Kitchens, Provost's Fund for Faculty/Student Scholarly Engagement, 2007 ($1818).
• Faculty mentor for William Kitchens, Georges Lurcy Grants, 2007 ($900).
• Faculty mentor for Michael Woodman, Georges Lurcy Grants, 2007 ($899).

External Grants

• Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship, 1987.
• Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute Fellowship, 1988. DECLINED
• Additional Principal Investigator, "Implementing Interactive Strategies for Foreign Language Learning" Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund (LEQSF-ENH-TR-35) for 'Read My Lips': A (Spanish) Pronunciation Tutor, 1994-1995. ($20,220)
• Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, organization of the Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Río Bravo, F94. ($3000)
• Additional Principal Investigator, "Foreign Language Instructional Technologies for the New Century" Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund (LEQSF-ENH-TR-68), 1996-97. ($161,338)
• Additional Principal Investigator, "Spanish for Students of Medicine and Public Health" Louisiana Education Quality Support Fund (LEQSF-ENH-TR-65), 1996-97. ($33,093)
• Principal Investigator, "Innovation, Immersion, and Integration: The Future of Foreign Language Studies at Tulane" (BORSF-ENH-029HUM), 2000-01. ($68,364)

Professional service

• President, Panel on Spanish Linguistics, SCMLA Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Nov. 12, 1994.
• Co-chair, Local Arrangements Committee, 69th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America. New Orleans, Jan. 5-8, 1995.
• Co-organizer, Workshop/Parasession on Language South of the Río Bravo. Tulane University, Jan. 9-10, 1995.
• Chair of Linguistics panel, 48th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. University of Kentucky at Lexington. April 21, 1995.
• Abstract Reviewer, Student Conference on Linguistics. Eastern Michigan University, Februrary 1997.
• Abstract Reviewer, Cognition and Function in Language Conference. University of Colorado, Boulder, Februrary 1997.
• Grant proposal reviewer, NEH. 1998.
• Abstract Reviewer, Cognitive Science Conference '99.
• Created and maintained Web site for the Thematic Session on Language and Ideology, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference 1999. University of Stockholm. (S99)
• Chapter reviewer, Language and Ideology. (F99)
• Article reviewer, Hispanic Linguistics. (F00/)
• Abstract reviewer, International Conference on Computational Methods 2004. (S04)
• Abstract reviewer, Main Program of Cognitive Science 2006. (S06)
• Abstract reviewer, V Congreso de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (F06)
• Abstract reviewer, 8th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse & Language (F06)
• Juror, The Southwest Journal of Linguistics (07)

Professional development

• Salzburg International Summer School in Linguistics. 1985.
• Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Stanford University, 1987.
• Summer School in Kaqchikel. Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica, Antigua, Guatemala, 1993.
• Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute. Ohio State University, 1993.
• Fifth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information. Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, 1993.
• Informática y Traducción. Cursos de Verano, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. July 5-8, 1994.
• Oxford Summer School on Connectionist Modeling. July 15-Aug. 3, 1996. University of Oxford, England.
• Tulane Service Learning FIPSE Faculty Program, Spring 02.

Professional affiliations

• Cognitive Science Society.
• International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA).
• International Neural Network Society (INNS).
• Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
• Commentator, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Computer programming

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
• MATLAB and the MATLAB Neural Network ToolBox.
• C, C++

Languages

• English (Native Fluency)
• Spanish (Near-Native Fluency)
• German, French, Portuguese (Reading Knowledge)
• Kaqchikel, Yoruba, Arabic, Turkish, Hungarian (Research Knowledge).