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Diane Lillo-Martin serves as a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut and holds a concurrent position as Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories. She maintains active affiliations with the Connecticut Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences as an affiliated faculty member and was previously a fellow at the UConn Humanities Institute.
Her research program fundamentally investigates the human language faculty through dual pathways: structural analysis and acquisition studies of American Sign Language (ASL), combined with cross-linguistic examinations of language acquisition mechanisms. This work establishes critical connections between signed and spoken language systems while advancing theoretical frameworks in linguistic cognition.
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Laboratory Affiliation: Dr. Lillo-Martin directs the Sign Linguistics and Language Acquisition laboratory, which conducts empirical research on sign language structure, developmental acquisition patterns, and cognitive foundations of linguistic competence.
