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Marie Coppola

Marie Coppola

Title: Assistant Professor
Joint appointment: Linguistics

E-mail: marie.coppola@uconn.edu
Office: Bousfield 139
Phone: 860-486-4907

Department of Psychology
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

Preferred Means of Contact: Email

Research Interests:

  • Language Acquisition
  • Homesign
  • Sign Language and Language Emergence
  • Gesture and Communication
  • Fieldwork Methods for Sign Language Research
Undergraduate courses:
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Advanced Topics in Developmental Psychology (Modality Issues)
 Graduate courses:
  • Modality Issues in Language and Development
  • Cognitive Development

Representative Publications:
  • Spaepen, E., M. Coppola, E. Spelke, S. Carey, and S. Goldin-Meadow. (2011). Number without a language model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(8): 3163-3168.
    Coppola, M. and A. Senghas. (in press). The emergence of deixis in Nicaraguan signing. In Sign Languages: A Cambridge Language Survey. D. Brentari, ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Coppola, M. and E. L. Newport. (2005). Grammatical Subjects in home sign: Abstract linguistic structure in adult primary gesture systems without linguistic input. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(52), 19249-19253.
  • Coppola, M., and W. C. So. (2005). Abstract and Object-Anchored Deixis: Pointing and spatial layout in adult homesign systems in Nicaragua. In Proceedings of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, 29, 144-155. A. Brugos, M. R. Clark-Cotton, and S. Ha, eds. Boston: Cascadilla Press.
  • Senghas, A., and M. Coppola. (2001). Children creating language: How Nicaraguan Sign Language acquired a spatial grammar. Psychological Science, 12(4), 323-328.
  • So, W. C., M. Coppola, V. Licciardello, and S. Goldin-Meadow. (2005). The seeds of spatial grammar in the manual modality. Cognitive Science, 29, 23-37.