Eric Pederson

Associate Professor and Department Head, Linguistics Department, University of Oregon

Psycholinguistics, semantics, typology, anthropological linguistics, Dravidian languages

Ph.D. (Linguistics): University of California, Berkeley, 1991

Office: 239 Straub
Phone: (541) 346-3900
Fax: (541) 346-5961
E-mail: epederso@uoregon.edu

Fall Office Hours: Tuesday s 1-3, and by appt.

Courses Fall 2007

Linguistics 607 Language of Space THIS COURSE HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL WINTER 2008

Linguistics 608 Workgroup in Cognitive Linguistics

Recent publications:

Pederson, E. In Press. “The Kurumba Languages” in Encyclopedia of the Nilgiri Hills, Vol 1. Paul Hocking, ed. New Delhi: Manohar Books; Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Pederson, E. In Press. "Cognitive Linguistics and linguistics relativity" In The Cognitive Linguistics Handbook, D. Geeraerts and H. Cuyckens, eds. Oxford University Press.

Pederson, E. In Press. “Event Realization in Tamil” in Crosslinguistic perspectives on argument structure: Implications for learnability, P. Brown and M. Bowerman, eds. Lawrence Erlbaum.

Pederson, E. 2007. “Tamil spatial language” in The grammars of space, S. Levinson and D. Wilkins eds. Cambridge University Press.

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.