Shanley Allen#
| Membership Number: | 5530 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.sowi.uni-kl.de/psycholinguistics/team/professor-dr-shanley-em-allen |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-5421-6750 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanleyallen/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - 2020 Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- Since 2012 Professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Development (W3), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2010 - 2012 Professor of English Linguistics (W2), Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
- 2006 - 2010 Chair, Department of Literacy, Language, Counseling and Development, School of Education, Boston University
- 2005 - 2005 Acting Director, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University
- 2002 - 2010 Associate Professor of Linguistics and Language Education, School of Education, Boston University
- 1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Language Education, School of Education, Boston University
- 1994 - 1998 Research Scientist, Language Acquisition Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Fields of Scholarship
- First language acquisition
- Second language acquisition
- Bilingual language acquisition
- Heritage language acquisition
- Inuit languages
- Verb argument structure
- Information structure
- Argument realization and referential choice
- Scientific writing
- Second language sentence processing
Honours and Awards
- 2010 - 2016 Dual Career Professorship, Claussen-Simon Foundation (half of salary for six years)
- 1995 Mary R. Haas Award (for doctoral dissertation), Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
