Anne Therese Frederiksen

Anne Therese Frederiksen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Arts, Sciences, and Disorders at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her work bridges psycholinguistics and sign-language linguistics, with a particular focus on how bilingualism in signed and spoken languages illuminates broader questions about language and cognition.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development)
• Postdoctoral fellowships: UC Irvine Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow (2019–2020) and NSF-funded postdoc under Dr. Judith Kroll (2020–2022)

Research Interests:

Frederiksen’s research centers on bimodal bilingualism—the simultaneous use of a signed and a spoken language—examining how this unique bilingual experience shapes cognitive control, referential cohesion, and discourse processing. She investigates American Sign Language (ASL) pronouns and spatial grammar, gesture–language interaction, and the developmental trajectories of both native and late learners of ASL.

Publications at a glance:

Since 2015 she has published nine peer-reviewed articles and numerous conference presentations. The corpus spans high-impact journals such as Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Frontiers in Psychology, and Lingua. Collectively, the work traces a trajectory from foundational descriptions of reference tracking in novice ASL learners to sophisticated models of bilingual language control and the semantics-pragmatics interface in sign languages.

Scientific Awards & Funding:

• National Science Foundation research grant (2020–2022)
• UC Irvine Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019–2020)

Advising & Collaborative Networks:

While the supplied text does not list individual advisees, Frederiksen has collaborated closely with Prof. Judith Kroll (UC Irvine) and Prof. Rachel Mayberry (UC San Diego), indicating active mentoring of graduate students and postdocs within large, federally funded research teams.

Labs & Research Groups:

During her doctoral training she was a member of the Mayberry Lab for Multimodal Language Development at UC San Diego, and she maintains collaborative ties with language-science groups at UC Irvine and CUNY.