Susan Curtiss

American linguist
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Susan Curtiss

Summary

Susan Curtiss is a human[1]. She worked as a linguist[2], academic[3], and university teacher[4]. She ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month, #7,288 of 1,000,298).[5]

Key Facts

  • Susan Curtiss held citizenship in United States[6].
  • Susan Curtiss's professions included linguist[2].
  • Susan Curtiss's professions included academic[3].
  • Susan Curtiss's professions included university teacher[4].
  • Susan Curtiss's field of work was psycholinguistics[7].
  • Susan Curtiss's field of work was neurolinguistics[8].
  • Among Susan Curtiss's employers was University of California, Los Angeles[9].
  • Susan Curtiss's doctoral advisor was Victoria Fromkin[10].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is The Linguistic Development of Genie[11].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is The development of language in Genie: a case of language acquisition beyond the “critical period”[12].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is Syntactic development in children with hemispherectomy: the I-, D-, and C-systems[13].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is How normal is grammatical development in the right hemisphere following hemispherectomy? The root infinitive stage and beyond[14].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is Assessment of grammar optimizes language tasks for the intracarotid amobarbital procedure.[15].
  • A notable work attributed to Susan Curtiss is GCS: a grammatical coding system for natural language data[16].
  • Susan Curtiss is recorded as female[17].
  • Susan Curtiss's instance of is recorded as human[18].
  • Susan Curtiss's given name is recorded as Susan[19].
  • Susan Curtiss's given name is recorded as Ruth[20].
  • Susan Curtiss's significant person is recorded as Genie[21].
  • Susan Curtiss's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot/UCLA[22].
  • Susan Curtiss's academic appointment is recorded as UCLA Department of Linguistics[23].

Body

Education

Susan Curtiss's doctoral advisor was Victoria Fromkin[10].

Career and Affiliations

Recorded occupations include linguist[2], academic[3], and university teacher[4]. Fields of work include psycholinguistics[7], a field of study[24] and neurolinguistics[8], an interdisciplinary science[25]. Susan Curtiss was employed by University of California, Los Angeles[9].

Works and Contributions

Notable works include The Linguistic Development of Genie[11], The development of language in Genie: a case of language acquisition beyond the “critical period”[12], Syntactic development in children with hemispherectomy: the I-, D-, and C-systems[13], How normal is grammatical development in the right hemisphere following hemispherectomy? The root infinitive stage and beyond[14], Assessment of grammar optimizes language tasks for the intracarotid amobarbital procedure.[15], and GCS: a grammatical coding system for natural language data[16].

Why It Matters

Susan Curtiss ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month, #7,288 of 1,000,298).[5]

FAQs

What did Susan Curtiss do for work?

Susan Curtiss worked as linguist[2], academic[3], and university teacher[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [17] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [18] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [2] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [3] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [4] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [9] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [19] . wikidata.org.
  12. [20] . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . linguistics.ucla.edu. Retrieved . linguistics.ucla.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [5] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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