Douglas H. Whalen is an American linguist. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Yale University in 1982 as a student of Louis M. Goldstein. Since 2011 he has been a Distinguished Professor in the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is a long-standing member of Haskins Laboratories in New Haven Connecticut, where he is a Senior Scientist and Vice President for Research. Whalen studies the relationship between speech production and speech perception from the perspective of the motor theory of speech perception.
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| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Linguistics |
Whalen is the founder of the Endangered Language Fund, and served as its president until 2015, when he became chair of the board of directors.[1] He is also a founding member of the Association for Laboratory Phonology and on the advisory board for Healing Through Language,[2] an organization that researches the connection between indigenous language revitalization and physical well-being.[3] From 2006 through 2008, he served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation where he was affiliated with the Cognitive Neuroscience,[4] Documenting Endangered Languages,[5][6] and Linguistics[7] programs.
References
edit- ^ "Endangered Language Fund: Board of Directors". Archived from the original on January 23, 2015. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
- ^ "Advisory Board « Healing Through Language". www.healingthroughlanguage.org. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
- ^ Whalen, D. H.; Moss, Margaret; Baldwin, Daryl (2016-05-09). "Healing through language: Positive physical health effects of indigenous language use". F1000Research. 5: 852. doi:10.12688/f1000research.8656.1.
- ^ NSF BCS Cognitive Neuroscience information
- ^ NSF BCS Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) information
- ^ Battista, Carolyn (7 April 1996). "On the Trail of Disappearing Languages". The New York Times. p. 15.
- ^ NSF BCS Linguistics information
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