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Eric William Pederson
Curriculum Vitae (abridged)
ADDRESS:
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Linguistics Department
University of Oregon
Eugene OR, 97403-1290
USA
Tel: +1-541-3463900
Fax: +1-541-3465961
Main office: +1-541-3463906
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Language and cognition / psycholinguistics, semantics/pragmatics, typological and cross-cultural linguistics, Dravidian linguistics.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, November 1991
Thesis: “Subtle semantics: Universals in the polysemy of reflexive and causative constructions.”
M.A. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, December 1985
Thesis: “Intensive and expressive language in White Hmong (Hmoob dawb).” (with J. Matisoff)
B.A. (Linguistics) University of California, Berkeley, June 1982
LANGUAGES:
Read: Tamil, German, Dutch
Speak: Tamil, some Dutch, rusty Japanese, hopeless French
Consultant work: Various South Dravidian languages, Turkish, White Hmong, Assamese
(Field periods in South India: 1983-84, 1986-87, 1992, 1993, 1994-95; 1997; total ca. 30 months in field)
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor, Linguistics Department, University of Oregon. Since December 1997. (Tenured as Associate Professor effective September 2003)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Pederson, E. 2012. The expression of space across languages. In: C. Maienborn & K. von Heusinger & P. Portner (eds.). Semantics. An International Handbook of Natural Language Meaning. Vol. 3. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2608-2624.
Bohnemeyer, J. and E. Pederson, eds. 2011. Event Representation in Language and Cognition. In the series “Language, Culture, and Cognition”. CambridgeUniversity Press.
Pederson, E. and Guion-Anderson S.G. 2010. “Orienting attention during phonetic trainingfacilitates learning.” Journal of the Acoustic Society of America127 (2): 1-6. Refereed
Pederson, E. 2010. “Linguistic Relativity” in The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, eds. Oxford University Press: 733-752.
Lautenschütz, A-K, C. Davies, M. Raubal, A. Schwering, & E. Pederson. 2008. “The Influence of Scale, Context and Spatial Preposition in LinguisticTopology”. In Th. Barkowsky et al., eds.Spatial Cognition V: Reasoning, Action, Interaction. Berlin: Springer-Verlag: 439-452. Refereed
Guion, S.G. & Pederson, E. 2007. “Investigating the role of attention in phonetic learning”. In Festschrift for James E. Flege. O.-S. Bohn and M. Munro, eds. Benjamins.Refereed
Pederson, E. 2006. “Tamil spatial language.” In S. Levinson and D. Wilkins,eds. The grammars of space: 400-436.CambridgeUniversity Press. Refereed
Pederson, E. 2003. “How many reference frames?” in C. Freksa et al., eds. Spatial Cognition 3: 287-304. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Refereed
Pederson, E. 2003. “Mirror-image discrimination among nonliterate, monoliterate, and biliterate Tamil speakers.” Written Language and Literacy. 6(1): 71-91. Refereed
Davies, C. and E. Pederson. 2001. “Grid patterns and cultural expectations in urban wayfinding” In Daniel R. Montello, ed. Spatial Information Theory: 400-414. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Refereed.
Danziger, E. and E. Pederson. 1998.“Through the Looking Glass: Literacy, writing systems and mirror image discrimination.” Written Language and Literacy 1(2): 153-164. Refereed.
Pederson, E., E. Danziger, S. Levinson, S. Kita, G. Senft, and D. Wilkins. 1998. “Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization.” Language 74(3): 557-589. Refereed.
Nuyts, J. and E. Pederson, eds. 1997. Language and conceptualization. CambridgeUniversity Press. Refereed
Pederson, E. 1995. “Language as context, language as means: Spatial cognition and habitual language use.” Cognitive Linguistics 6(1): 33-62. Refereed.
Pederson, E. 1993. “Geographic and manipulable space in two Tamil linguistic systems.” In Andrew U. Frank and Irene Campari, eds.. Spatial Information Theory: 294-311. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. Refereed.
SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS:
UO Summer Stipend for Humanities and Creative Arts, Summer 2013 ($5000)
UO Faculty Summer Research Award Summer 2012 ($5500)
Fulbright Fellowship 2012-2013. Declined.
EURIAS Senior Scholar Fellowship 2012-2013 (ca. $50,000)
University of Oregon Innovations in Diversity and Academic Excellence Award 2010-2012 (for increased student support in Native American Language Revitalization) ($11,600)
Rippey Innovative Teaching Award 2001-2002, with Ulrich Mayr, Psychology (Proposal for increased curricular integration of lower division Linguistics and Psychology courses) ($6500)
University of Oregon Summer Research Award 2001 (for Tamil head gesture coding/analysis) ($4,500)
NCGIA's Varenius Project “Seed grant” for cross-disciplinary geographic research 1999-2000, Pederson P.I. (with Clare Davies, Psychology Dept., University of Surrey, England) ($3600)
University of Oregon Lower-division Instruction and Student Research development grant, 1999-2001, ($29,000)