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Diane Lillo-Martin is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut. She is currently the Director of the university's Cognitive Sciences Program as well as its Coordinator of American Sign Language Studies. Lillo-Martin is additionally the board chair of the Sign Language Linguistics Society and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories, as well as a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
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Lillo-Martin received her PhD in 1986 from the University of California, San Diego, under the supervision of Edward Klima.
She is the former editor-in-chief of the journal Language Acquisition. She sat on the linguistics panel of the National Science Foundation and was a review panel member and chair of the Language and Communication Study Section (LCOM) for the National Institutes of Health. Lillo-Martin also spent 12 years as Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut.
Research
Diane Lillo-Martin is an eminent scholar in the fields of Monolingual and Bilingual First Language Acquisition and the Structure and Acquisition of American Sign Language. Her research focuses on what first language acquisition of sign languages can tell us about language universals and how the human mind comes prepared to learn language.
Major publications
Lillo-Martin's research has been published in and reviewed in numerous peer-reviewed journals and academic presses.