Curriculum vitae
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Education
PhD, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University. Dissertation title: Input in the acquisition of genericity. Thesis committee: Jeffrey Lidz (chair), Christopher Kennedy, Sandra Waxman and Stefan Kaufmann. Awarded June 20, 2008.
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Awarded 1995.
Université de Paris X-Nanterre – SUNY-Stony Brook study abroad program. Coursework in linguistics, art history, literature (no degree sought).
Research Interests
Language acquisition and its trajectories, psycholinguistics, syntax-semantics interface, prosodic planning.
Teaching Experience
Campagne de recrutement MCF, 2017
Référence GALAXIE 4256 – Université Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle, auditionnée, classée 2ème
Référence GALAXIE 4390 – Université Paris 8, auditionnée, classée 4ème
Qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences, 16 February 2016.
Lectrice – Aix-Marseille Université, Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone
Co-Responsable de cours, IAV A/B/C/D021-Compréhension
Responsable de cours, IAV F14 Synthèse de documents et Rédaction
Enseignement de travaux dirigés
Niveau : Licence 1
Linguistics
Course chair, Capstone Project in English Language, SIM University. Honours-level linguistics project course. Designing course slides, taught introductory lecture, coordinated project supervisors. 5 terms: 2012 (2), 2013 (2), 2014 (1).
Course chair, Semantics and Pragmatics, SIM University. University-level linguistics course for undergraduate students. Developed course materials and wrote published study guide, designed course slides, classroom activities, course assessments and marking guides, coordinated teaching team, marked assessments. 4 terms: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Instructor, Introduction to Linguistics: Mind and Meaning, Nanyang Technological University. University-level linguistics class for undergraduates. Responsibilities included four weekly tutorial sessions (80 students), two lectures throughout the term, grading. 1 term: 2010.
Instructor, Language and Prejudice, Northwestern University. University-level sociolinguistics course for undergraduate and master’s students. Responsibilities included developing course content. 2 terms: 2004, 2006.
Instructor, Language and Gender, Northwestern University. University-level sociolinguistics course for undergraduate students. Responsibilities included developing course content. 1 term: 2003.
Teaching Assistant, Language and Prejudice, Northwestern University. Introductory sociolinguistics course for undergraduate students. Duties included weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 2 terms: 2001, 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Science, Northwestern University. Introductory cognitive science course for undergraduate students. Duties included weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 1 term: 2003.
Teaching Assistant, Meaning, Northwestern University. University-level semantics and pragmatics course for undergraduate students. Duties included leading weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 1 term: 2001.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Instructor, ESL Program, Northwestern University. University-level ESL courses for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. Responsibilities included developing course content.
Spoken English for Non-Native Speakers. 3 terms: 2000, 2002, 2004.
American Academic Culture. 1 term: 2002.
Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers. 1 term: 2002.
American Culture. 1 term: 2001.
English for Academic Presentations. 1 term: 2001.
Instructor, English as a Foreign Language, Rudnay Gyula Gimnázium, Tab, Hungary.
Professional Experience
Course co-coordinator, Département d'études du monde Anglophone (Department of English Studies), Aix-Marseille Université (France). Responsibilities include course planning for the first four semesters of the Comprehension module, preparation and maintenance of online resources, management of the teaching team, preparation and correction of exams. September 2016–present.
Senior Lecturer and Head of Programme, English Programmes, SIM University. Responsibilities included oversight of curriculum development, including the development of e-courses; appointment and coordination of 50–60 instructors/seminar groups per semester; curriculum planning; programme training for new instructors; management of 33 courses per year, including assessment development and review, monitoring of assessment marking, marks moderation, classroom observation, semester-end course presentation reports; consultation with programme external examiner and programme advisory panel members, and follow-up reports; end-of-semester instructor debriefing sessions; programme briefings for new students and prospective students; student activity and events planning; programme annual report; programme budget forecasting; managing student queries; plagiarism verdict decisions. January 2012–December 2014.
Lecturer, English Programmes, SIM University. Responsibilities included course oversight for 10 courses per year, including vetting assignments, monitoring of assessment marking, marks moderation, classroom observations and semester-end course presentation reports. 2011.
Assistant Director, English Language Program, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors, conducted fall training/curriculum planning workshop, administered language assessments, coordinated assessment scoring, conducted teaching test-prep workshop. 2007–2008.
Program Developer, School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University. Worked with administrators of the Medill Integrated Marketing Communications program to develop a custom ESL program for their international students, developed curriculum proposal and programme budget. 2008.
Acting Director, English Language Program, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors, conducted fall training/curriculum planning workshop, scheduled courses and tutoring for international graduate students, administered language assessments. 2007.
Senior Assistant Director, International Summer Institute, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors and planned curriculum, scheduled courses, acted as liaison between university administrators, instructors, international students and members of the Evanston community. 2007.
Program Coordinator, Northwestern University Beijing English Institute. Coordinated instructor recruitment and planned curriculum, scheduled courses, coordinated guest lecturers and social events, arranged housing and activities for participants. 2006.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher – Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL, UMR7309, CNRS). Projet « ANR RAPP » (Représentation et Planification de la Prosodie). Responsable: C. Petrone. 2015-2016.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS and Université de Provence – Aix-Marseille I. Project investigated online processing of French in late (L1 English) learners by recording electrophysiological response (ERPs) to visually-presented stimuli. 2009–2010.
Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire Parole et Langage for “Pro-Gram : La prosodie dans la grammaire”, a grant by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) to investigate prosody interfaces in the grammar of French. Responsable : Mariapaola D’Imperio. 2009.
Project Manager for “Dialogue Prosody in Interactive Voice Response Systems”, a National Science Foundation grant to Julia Hirschberg (PI, Columbia University) and Gregory Ward (Co-PI, Northwestern University) to investigate English prosody and meaning. Designed multiple experiments for the project, submitted IRB protocol, transcribed/ToBI labelled/coded/analysed data, hired and managed undergraduate research assistants, implemented experimental protocol, drafted write-up for publication. 2004–2007.
Research Assistant for Gregory Ward, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University. Designed multiple experiments for the project, submitted IRB protocol, transcribed and labelled/coded/analysed data. 2003–2004.
Research Assistant for Twila Tardif, Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PRC – SAR. Project compared cross-cultural discourse strategies (group-dynamics and interruption) in a communicative negotiation task. 1999.
Research Assistant for Twila Tardif, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. Project investigated child-directed speech in interactive book-reading, toy-play and mechanical toy-play tasks. 1996.
Publications
Refereed Journals
German, E. S., J. Herschensohn, & C. Frenck-Mestre. (2015). “Pronoun processing in Anglophone late L2 learners of French: Behavioral and ERP evidence”. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 34, pp. 15-40.
Book Chapters
Frenck-Mestre, C., E. Sneed German, & A. Foucart. (2014). “Qualitative Differences In Native And Non-Native Semantic Processing As Revealed by ERPs” in R. R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (eds.), Foundations of bilingual memory. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Pp. 237-255.
Hirschberg, J., A. Gravano, A. Nenkova, E. Sneed, & G. Ward. (2007). “Intonational Overload: Uses of the H* !H* L- L% Contour in Read and Spontaneous Speech,” in J. Cole and J. Hualde (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 455-82.
Conference proceedings
Petrone, C., E. Sneed German, J. Sneed German & K. Ito. (2019). Effects of tune and interspeaker differences on the interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). in Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australie.
Gravano, A., S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, E. Sneed German, & G. Ward. (2008). “The effect of contour type and epistemic modality on the assessment of speaker certainty,” in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil. Pp. 401-4.
Sneed, E. (2005). “The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Generic NPs,” in online Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Lidz, J., E. McMahon, K. Syrett, J. Viau, F. Anggoro, J. Peterson-Hicks, E. Sneed, A. Bunger, T. Flevaris, A. Graham, K. Grohne, Y. Lee, & E. Strid. (2004). “Quantifier Raising in 4-year-olds,” in Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla Press. Pp. 340-9.
Sneed, E. (2004). “The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure,” in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 381-95.
Sneed, M. E. (2002). “The Acceptability of Regular Plurals in Compounds,” in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 617-31.
Conference Presentations
Sneed German, E. (2019). Effects of tune and interspeaker differences on the interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Poster presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australie, 5-9 août.
Sneed German, E. (2019). Cognitive abilities and prosody in question-response interactions: A clinical study (w/ C. Petrone, M. Zira and C. Zielinski). Paper presented at 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE), Lecce, Italie, 17-19 juin.
Sneed German, E. (2019). Intonation affects perlocutionary meaning in requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Paper presented at 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE), Lecce, Italie, 17-19 juin.
Sneed German, E. (2018). Effects of intonation on the multi-dimensional interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Paper presented at Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning, Paris, Jul. 2-3.
Sneed German, E. (2018). Multidimensional interpretation of rising and falling tunes for requests and offers (w/ C. Petrone, K. Ito and J. German). Poster presented at LabPhon16, Lisbon, Jun. 19-22.
Sneed German, E. (2017). Effet des déficits cognitifs sur les mécanismes de coordination de la parole en interaction dans la sclérose en plaques (w/ C. Petrone, T. Mahrt, C. De Looze, N. Moreau, F. Viallet and L. Martinez-Almoyna. Paper presented at 7ème Journées de Phonetique Clinique, Paris, Jun. 29-30.
Sneed German, E. (2017). Cognitive differences as sources of variation in dialogic interaction (w/C. Petrone, S. Schiattarella, G. De Bellis, T. Mahrt, N. Moreau and L. Renié. Paper presented at XIII Convegno Nazionale AISV, Pisa, Jan. 25-27.
Sneed German, E. (2014). Pronoun processing in Anglophone late L2 learners of French: Behavioral and ERP evidence (w/ Julia Herschensohn, & Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Paper presented at the 24th annual conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 24), York, UK. Sept. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2013). ERP evidence of unconstrained lexical access to meaning specified by gender (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov. 6-8.
Sneed, E. (2011). Qualitative differences in semantic processing during native and non-native sentence comprehension as revealed by ERPs (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre and Haydee Carrasco). Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Nov. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2011). “I it him did give”: ERP evidence of the acquisition of clitic pronouns by L2 learners (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Paper presented at the 24th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Mar. 24-26.
Sneed, E. (2010). P600 effects in semantic processing (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov. 11-12.
Sneed, E. (2010). To revise or not to revise? What the P600 can tell us about semantic processing in both native and non-native sentence comprehension (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre and Haydee Carrasco). Paper presented at the Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian, Spain. Sep. 30-Oct 2.
Sneed German, E. (2009). Availability of generic NP interpretations in 4-year-olds. Paper presented at Genericity: Interpretation and Uses, Paris. May 11-13.
Sneed German, E. (2008). Empirical evidence for VP-internal subjects: indefinite NPs and non-isomorphism. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Jan. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2008). The Effect of Semantic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty (w/ Gregory Ward, Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, and Julia Hirschberg). Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Jan. 3-6.
Sneed, E. (2004). The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Generic NPs. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, Nov. 5-7.
Sneed, E. (2004). The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, Apr. 15-17.
Sneed, E. (2004). Structural Focus and Prosodic Focus in Hungarian. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, MD, Mar. 25-27.
Sneed, E. (2002). The Acceptability of Regular Plurals in Compounds. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, Apr. 25-27.
Awards and Honors
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Provence. Competitive fellowship (six fellowships for the university) based on co-authored project proposal with senior researcher. One-year funding of postdoctoral research. Granted 2009.
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University. Funding for proposed material costs associated with dissertation research. Granted 2006.
Paula Menyuk Travel Award, Boston University Conference on Language Development. Conference grant to cover transportation and conference expenses. Granted 2004.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Northwestern University. Award for outstanding teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Granted 2002.
Language and Cognition Fellowship, Northwestern University. One year full stipend and tuition. Granted 1999.
Austrian Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship. Monthly stipends to cover living expenses for one academic year in exchange for ten hours of English teaching per week in Viennese secondary schools. Granted 1998. Declined.
Professional Service and Memberships
IRB committee member, SIM University, 2012–2014.
School representative, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences website revamp and maintenance, 2011–2014.
School representative, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences for Student Growth/Academic Experience/Professional Growth Working Group.
Emcee for Singapore Media Conference 2013: The Evolution of MediaEducation in Singapore, November, 2013.
Emcee and organizing committee member, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences 2013 Language Forum All the Rage on the Singapore Stage: Transcultural Representations in Performance, August, 2013.
Task force member, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences internal exam task force, 2012.
The Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL), 2011–present.
Member, Linguistic Society of America. 1999–2009.
Member, Chicago Syn-Sem Circle. 2005–2008.
Colloquium and Job Search Reception Committees, Northwestern University. 1999–2005.
Co-organizer, NU–University of Chicago Student Roundtable on Linguistics. 2002.
Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, Linguistics Department, Northwestern University. 2001–2002.
Languages
English (native)
French (fluent)
Hungarian (beginner)
Spanish (beginner)
Japanese (limited)
Research skills
Advanced knowledge of SAI and Biosemi ERP systems
Advanced skills with speech analysis software: Praat
Education
PhD, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University. Dissertation title: Input in the acquisition of genericity. Thesis committee: Jeffrey Lidz (chair), Christopher Kennedy, Sandra Waxman and Stefan Kaufmann. Awarded June 20, 2008.
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Awarded 1995.
Université de Paris X-Nanterre – SUNY-Stony Brook study abroad program. Coursework in linguistics, art history, literature (no degree sought).
Research Interests
Language acquisition and its trajectories, psycholinguistics, syntax-semantics interface, prosodic planning.
Teaching Experience
Campagne de recrutement MCF, 2017
Référence GALAXIE 4256 – Université Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle, auditionnée, classée 2ème
Référence GALAXIE 4390 – Université Paris 8, auditionnée, classée 4ème
Qualification aux fonctions de maître de conférences, 16 February 2016.
Lectrice – Aix-Marseille Université, Département d’Etudes du Monde Anglophone
Co-Responsable de cours, IAV A/B/C/D021-Compréhension
Responsable de cours, IAV F14 Synthèse de documents et Rédaction
Enseignement de travaux dirigés
Niveau : Licence 1
- IAV A021-Grammaire et Traduction (version)
- IAV A021-Phonétique
- IAV A021- Compréhension
- IAV A021-Grammaire et Traduction (thème)
- IAV B021-Phonétique
- IAA L01 Anglais continuant
- NEO (conversation)
- PSY B10 Anglais pour psychologues
- IAA D24 Thème
- IAV F14 Synthèse de documents et Rédaction
Linguistics
Course chair, Capstone Project in English Language, SIM University. Honours-level linguistics project course. Designing course slides, taught introductory lecture, coordinated project supervisors. 5 terms: 2012 (2), 2013 (2), 2014 (1).
Course chair, Semantics and Pragmatics, SIM University. University-level linguistics course for undergraduate students. Developed course materials and wrote published study guide, designed course slides, classroom activities, course assessments and marking guides, coordinated teaching team, marked assessments. 4 terms: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014.
Instructor, Introduction to Linguistics: Mind and Meaning, Nanyang Technological University. University-level linguistics class for undergraduates. Responsibilities included four weekly tutorial sessions (80 students), two lectures throughout the term, grading. 1 term: 2010.
Instructor, Language and Prejudice, Northwestern University. University-level sociolinguistics course for undergraduate and master’s students. Responsibilities included developing course content. 2 terms: 2004, 2006.
Instructor, Language and Gender, Northwestern University. University-level sociolinguistics course for undergraduate students. Responsibilities included developing course content. 1 term: 2003.
Teaching Assistant, Language and Prejudice, Northwestern University. Introductory sociolinguistics course for undergraduate students. Duties included weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 2 terms: 2001, 2005.
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cognitive Science, Northwestern University. Introductory cognitive science course for undergraduate students. Duties included weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 1 term: 2003.
Teaching Assistant, Meaning, Northwestern University. University-level semantics and pragmatics course for undergraduate students. Duties included leading weekly discussion section, lecturing, grading, pre-exam review sessions. 1 term: 2001.
English as a Second Language (ESL)
Instructor, ESL Program, Northwestern University. University-level ESL courses for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars. Responsibilities included developing course content.
Spoken English for Non-Native Speakers. 3 terms: 2000, 2002, 2004.
American Academic Culture. 1 term: 2002.
Academic Writing for Non-Native Speakers. 1 term: 2002.
American Culture. 1 term: 2001.
English for Academic Presentations. 1 term: 2001.
Instructor, English as a Foreign Language, Rudnay Gyula Gimnázium, Tab, Hungary.
Professional Experience
Course co-coordinator, Département d'études du monde Anglophone (Department of English Studies), Aix-Marseille Université (France). Responsibilities include course planning for the first four semesters of the Comprehension module, preparation and maintenance of online resources, management of the teaching team, preparation and correction of exams. September 2016–present.
Senior Lecturer and Head of Programme, English Programmes, SIM University. Responsibilities included oversight of curriculum development, including the development of e-courses; appointment and coordination of 50–60 instructors/seminar groups per semester; curriculum planning; programme training for new instructors; management of 33 courses per year, including assessment development and review, monitoring of assessment marking, marks moderation, classroom observation, semester-end course presentation reports; consultation with programme external examiner and programme advisory panel members, and follow-up reports; end-of-semester instructor debriefing sessions; programme briefings for new students and prospective students; student activity and events planning; programme annual report; programme budget forecasting; managing student queries; plagiarism verdict decisions. January 2012–December 2014.
Lecturer, English Programmes, SIM University. Responsibilities included course oversight for 10 courses per year, including vetting assignments, monitoring of assessment marking, marks moderation, classroom observations and semester-end course presentation reports. 2011.
Assistant Director, English Language Program, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors, conducted fall training/curriculum planning workshop, administered language assessments, coordinated assessment scoring, conducted teaching test-prep workshop. 2007–2008.
Program Developer, School of Continuing Studies, Northwestern University. Worked with administrators of the Medill Integrated Marketing Communications program to develop a custom ESL program for their international students, developed curriculum proposal and programme budget. 2008.
Acting Director, English Language Program, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors, conducted fall training/curriculum planning workshop, scheduled courses and tutoring for international graduate students, administered language assessments. 2007.
Senior Assistant Director, International Summer Institute, Northwestern University. Coordinated instructors and planned curriculum, scheduled courses, acted as liaison between university administrators, instructors, international students and members of the Evanston community. 2007.
Program Coordinator, Northwestern University Beijing English Institute. Coordinated instructor recruitment and planned curriculum, scheduled courses, coordinated guest lecturers and social events, arranged housing and activities for participants. 2006.
Research Experience
Postdoctoral researcher – Aix-Marseille Université, Laboratoire Parole et Langage (LPL, UMR7309, CNRS). Projet « ANR RAPP » (Représentation et Planification de la Prosodie). Responsable: C. Petrone. 2015-2016.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, CNRS and Université de Provence – Aix-Marseille I. Project investigated online processing of French in late (L1 English) learners by recording electrophysiological response (ERPs) to visually-presented stimuli. 2009–2010.
Visiting Researcher, Laboratoire Parole et Langage for “Pro-Gram : La prosodie dans la grammaire”, a grant by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) to investigate prosody interfaces in the grammar of French. Responsable : Mariapaola D’Imperio. 2009.
Project Manager for “Dialogue Prosody in Interactive Voice Response Systems”, a National Science Foundation grant to Julia Hirschberg (PI, Columbia University) and Gregory Ward (Co-PI, Northwestern University) to investigate English prosody and meaning. Designed multiple experiments for the project, submitted IRB protocol, transcribed/ToBI labelled/coded/analysed data, hired and managed undergraduate research assistants, implemented experimental protocol, drafted write-up for publication. 2004–2007.
Research Assistant for Gregory Ward, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University. Designed multiple experiments for the project, submitted IRB protocol, transcribed and labelled/coded/analysed data. 2003–2004.
Research Assistant for Twila Tardif, Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, PRC – SAR. Project compared cross-cultural discourse strategies (group-dynamics and interruption) in a communicative negotiation task. 1999.
Research Assistant for Twila Tardif, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan. Project investigated child-directed speech in interactive book-reading, toy-play and mechanical toy-play tasks. 1996.
Publications
Refereed Journals
German, E. S., J. Herschensohn, & C. Frenck-Mestre. (2015). “Pronoun processing in Anglophone late L2 learners of French: Behavioral and ERP evidence”. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 34, pp. 15-40.
Book Chapters
Frenck-Mestre, C., E. Sneed German, & A. Foucart. (2014). “Qualitative Differences In Native And Non-Native Semantic Processing As Revealed by ERPs” in R. R. Heredia & J. Altarriba (eds.), Foundations of bilingual memory. New York, NY: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Pp. 237-255.
Hirschberg, J., A. Gravano, A. Nenkova, E. Sneed, & G. Ward. (2007). “Intonational Overload: Uses of the H* !H* L- L% Contour in Read and Spontaneous Speech,” in J. Cole and J. Hualde (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 455-82.
Conference proceedings
Petrone, C., E. Sneed German, J. Sneed German & K. Ito. (2019). Effects of tune and interspeaker differences on the interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). in Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australie.
Gravano, A., S. Benus, J. Hirschberg, E. Sneed German, & G. Ward. (2008). “The effect of contour type and epistemic modality on the assessment of speaker certainty,” in Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas, Brazil. Pp. 401-4.
Sneed, E. (2005). “The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Generic NPs,” in online Proceedings of the 29th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
Lidz, J., E. McMahon, K. Syrett, J. Viau, F. Anggoro, J. Peterson-Hicks, E. Sneed, A. Bunger, T. Flevaris, A. Graham, K. Grohne, Y. Lee, & E. Strid. (2004). “Quantifier Raising in 4-year-olds,” in Proceedings of the 28th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cambridge, MA: Cascadilla Press. Pp. 340-9.
Sneed, E. (2004). “The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure,” in Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 381-95.
Sneed, M. E. (2002). “The Acceptability of Regular Plurals in Compounds,” in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: CLS. Pp. 617-31.
Conference Presentations
Sneed German, E. (2019). Effects of tune and interspeaker differences on the interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Poster presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australie, 5-9 août.
Sneed German, E. (2019). Cognitive abilities and prosody in question-response interactions: A clinical study (w/ C. Petrone, M. Zira and C. Zielinski). Paper presented at 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE), Lecce, Italie, 17-19 juin.
Sneed German, E. (2019). Intonation affects perlocutionary meaning in requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Paper presented at 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference (PaPE), Lecce, Italie, 17-19 juin.
Sneed German, E. (2018). Effects of intonation on the multi-dimensional interpretation of requests and offers (w/ K. Ito, J. German and C. Petrone). Paper presented at Sociolinguistic, Psycholinguistic and Formal Perspectives on Meaning, Paris, Jul. 2-3.
Sneed German, E. (2018). Multidimensional interpretation of rising and falling tunes for requests and offers (w/ C. Petrone, K. Ito and J. German). Poster presented at LabPhon16, Lisbon, Jun. 19-22.
Sneed German, E. (2017). Effet des déficits cognitifs sur les mécanismes de coordination de la parole en interaction dans la sclérose en plaques (w/ C. Petrone, T. Mahrt, C. De Looze, N. Moreau, F. Viallet and L. Martinez-Almoyna. Paper presented at 7ème Journées de Phonetique Clinique, Paris, Jun. 29-30.
Sneed German, E. (2017). Cognitive differences as sources of variation in dialogic interaction (w/C. Petrone, S. Schiattarella, G. De Bellis, T. Mahrt, N. Moreau and L. Renié. Paper presented at XIII Convegno Nazionale AISV, Pisa, Jan. 25-27.
Sneed German, E. (2014). Pronoun processing in Anglophone late L2 learners of French: Behavioral and ERP evidence (w/ Julia Herschensohn, & Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Paper presented at the 24th annual conference of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA 24), York, UK. Sept. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2013). ERP evidence of unconstrained lexical access to meaning specified by gender (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov. 6-8.
Sneed, E. (2011). Qualitative differences in semantic processing during native and non-native sentence comprehension as revealed by ERPs (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre and Haydee Carrasco). Paper presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA. Nov. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2011). “I it him did give”: ERP evidence of the acquisition of clitic pronouns by L2 learners (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Paper presented at the 24th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. Mar. 24-26.
Sneed, E. (2010). P600 effects in semantic processing (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre). Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Diego, CA. Nov. 11-12.
Sneed, E. (2010). To revise or not to revise? What the P600 can tell us about semantic processing in both native and non-native sentence comprehension (w/Cheryl Frenck-Mestre and Haydee Carrasco). Paper presented at the Donostia Workshop on Neurobilingualism, San Sebastian, Spain. Sep. 30-Oct 2.
Sneed German, E. (2009). Availability of generic NP interpretations in 4-year-olds. Paper presented at Genericity: Interpretation and Uses, Paris. May 11-13.
Sneed German, E. (2008). Empirical evidence for VP-internal subjects: indefinite NPs and non-isomorphism. Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Jan. 3-6.
Sneed German, E. (2008). The Effect of Semantic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty (w/ Gregory Ward, Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, and Julia Hirschberg). Paper presented at the LSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. Jan. 3-6.
Sneed, E. (2004). The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Generic NPs. Poster presented at the 29th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, Nov. 5-7.
Sneed, E. (2004). The Role of Prosody in Hungarian Information Structure. Paper presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, Apr. 15-17.
Sneed, E. (2004). Structural Focus and Prosodic Focus in Hungarian. Poster presented at the 17th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. College Park, MD, Mar. 25-27.
Sneed, E. (2002). The Acceptability of Regular Plurals in Compounds. Paper presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, Apr. 25-27.
Awards and Honors
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Université de Provence. Competitive fellowship (six fellowships for the university) based on co-authored project proposal with senior researcher. One-year funding of postdoctoral research. Granted 2009.
Graduate Research Grant, Northwestern University. Funding for proposed material costs associated with dissertation research. Granted 2006.
Paula Menyuk Travel Award, Boston University Conference on Language Development. Conference grant to cover transportation and conference expenses. Granted 2004.
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Northwestern University. Award for outstanding teaching in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Granted 2002.
Language and Cognition Fellowship, Northwestern University. One year full stipend and tuition. Granted 1999.
Austrian Fulbright Commission Teaching Assistantship. Monthly stipends to cover living expenses for one academic year in exchange for ten hours of English teaching per week in Viennese secondary schools. Granted 1998. Declined.
Professional Service and Memberships
IRB committee member, SIM University, 2012–2014.
School representative, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences website revamp and maintenance, 2011–2014.
School representative, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences for Student Growth/Academic Experience/Professional Growth Working Group.
Emcee for Singapore Media Conference 2013: The Evolution of MediaEducation in Singapore, November, 2013.
Emcee and organizing committee member, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences 2013 Language Forum All the Rage on the Singapore Stage: Transcultural Representations in Performance, August, 2013.
Task force member, SIM University School of Arts and Social Sciences internal exam task force, 2012.
The Singapore Association for Applied Linguistics (SAAL), 2011–present.
Member, Linguistic Society of America. 1999–2009.
Member, Chicago Syn-Sem Circle. 2005–2008.
Colloquium and Job Search Reception Committees, Northwestern University. 1999–2005.
Co-organizer, NU–University of Chicago Student Roundtable on Linguistics. 2002.
Graduate Student Representative to the Faculty, Linguistics Department, Northwestern University. 2001–2002.
Languages
English (native)
French (fluent)
Hungarian (beginner)
Spanish (beginner)
Japanese (limited)
Research skills
Advanced knowledge of SAI and Biosemi ERP systems
Advanced skills with speech analysis software: Praat