I am an assistant professor
of Spanish and Linguistics at Rutgers University, Newark. In 2001 I
received my Ph.D. in
Linguistics from
Cornell University with a minor in
Cognitive Science.
I am a member of the graduate faculty in Psychology at Rutgers-Newark
and in Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers-New Brunswick.
I study language acquisition, bilingualism and language contact.
My research interests include the effects of bilingualism on language
development and speech processing in children and adults; how language
typology affects the acquisition of morphology; first language loss in
bilingual children; and the role that bilingual speakers play in
promoting language change.
Publications
Book
Austin, Jennifer, Blume, María and Sánchez, Liliana.
(Under contract).
Bilingualism in the Spanish-speaking world:
Linguistic and cognitive perspectives.
Cambridge University Press.
Journal Articles
Austin, Jennifer. (In press). Delay, interference and bilingual
development: The acquisition of verbal morphology in children
learning Basque and Spanish.
International Journal of Bilingualism.
Austin, Jennifer. (In press). Rich inflection and the production
of root infinitives in child language.
Morphology.
Austin, Jennifer. (2007).
Grammatical interference and the acquisition of ergative case
in bilingual children learning Basque and Spanish.
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 10(3):
315–331.
Austin, Jennifer. (2006).
Dative overmarking in Basque: Evidence of Spanish-Basque convergence.
Euskalingua
9: 136–145.
Santlemann, Lynn,
Berk, Stephanie,
Austin, Jennifer,
Somashekar, Shamitha and
Lust, Barbara. (2002).
Continuity and development in the
acquisition of inversion in yes/no questions: Dissociating
movement and inflection.
The Journal of Child Language.
29(4):813–842.
López, Luis and Jennifer Austin. (1997).
Theories of VP structure and
the typology of structural case.
Linguistic Analysis.
27:186–219.
I am an assistant professor
of Spanish and Linguistics at Rutgers University, Newark. In 2001 I
received my Ph.D. in
Linguistics from
Cornell University with a minor in
Cognitive Science.
I am a member of the graduate faculty in Psychology at Rutgers-Newark
and in Spanish and Portuguese at Rutgers-New Brunswick.