Judy Shepard-Kegl

Judy Shepard-Kegl (born June 20, 1953) is an American linguist and full professor, best known for her research on the Nicaraguan sign language.

Judy Shepard-Kegl
Born (1953-06-20) June 20, 1953
Evergreen Park, Illinois
NationalityAmerican
OccupationLinguist, full professor
Academic background
Academic work
DisciplineLinguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Southern Maine
Notable worksNicaraguan sign language

Education and career

She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1985, with a dissertation entitled Locative Relations in American Sign Language Word Formation, Syntax and Discourse. [1] Shepard-Kegl is currently a tenured professor of Linguistics and coordinator of the ASL/English Interpreting Program at the University of Southern Maine.[2]

She has worked and written extensively within her field and is best known for her work and multiple academic publishings on the Nicaraguan Sign Language (or ISN, Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua or Idioma de Signos Nicaragüense), a sign language spontaneously developed by deaf children in a number of schools in western Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s.[3][4][5][6]

Selected publications
  • Carol Neidle, Judy Kegl, Dawn MacLaughlin, Benjamin Bahan and Robert G. Lee. 1999. The syntax of American Sign Language. The MIT Press. ISBN ISBN 9780262140676
  • J Kegl, A Senghas, M Coppola. 1999. Creation through contact: Sign language emergence and sign language change in Nicaragua. In: Language Creation and Language Change, ed. by Michael de Graff. The MIT Press. ISBN 9780262041683

References
  1. "Alumni and their Dissertations – MIT Linguistics". linguistics.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  2. "Judy Shepard-Kegl Ph.D., NIC-M, SC:L, ED:K-12 | Department of Linguistics | University of Southern Maine". usm.maine.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  3. "Judy Kegl". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  4. "The origin of Nicaraguan Sign Language tells us a lot about language creation". The World from PRX. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  5. "Jennie Yang '20 Interviews Judy Kegl about the Birth of a Language in Nicaragua — Linguistics". linguistics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  6. Writer, Kelley BouchardStaff. "Seeing the signs: Renowned USM professor reflects on life-changing language discovery". Retrieved 2022-03-11.


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