People
Claude Mauk
Director, Less-Commonly-Taught Languages Center
(PhD, University of Texas at Austin)
1504 Cathedral of Learning
Phone: 412-624-5943
E-mail: cemauk@pitt.edu
Claude Mauk is interested in phonetics, phonology, language acquisition
and
psycholinguistics particularly as they relate to American Sign Language
(ASL). He is particularly interested in the nature and realization of
phonetic and phonological targets in spoken and signed languages and
has
researched this topic in the areas of acoustics, kinematics and first
language acquisition.
Courses Taught
LING 1578 Phonetics and Phonemics
LING 1720/2720 Structure of Sign Languages
LING 1721/2721 Sociolinguistics of Sign Language
Selected Publications
Meier, Richard P., Claude Mauk, Christopher J. Moreland and Adrianne Cheek.
Forthcoming. The Form of Children's Early Signs: Iconic or Motoric
Determinants? Accepted to Language Learning and Development.
Mauk, Claude E., Lindblom, Bjšrn & Meier, Richard P. In Press.
Undershoot
of ASL locations in fast signing. Proceedings of Theoretical Issues in
Sign
Language Research 8 in Barcelona, September 30 - October 2, 2004.
Lindblom, Bjorn, Claude Mauk and Seung-Jae Moon. In Press. Dynamic
specification and the production of speech and sign. Dynamics of Speech
Production and Perception, ed. P. Divenyi and G. Meyer. NATO Science
Series.
Mauk, Claude E.. 2003. Consonant dynamics: Rate- and vowel-dependence. Proceedings from the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Universitat Aut˜noma de Barcelona: Barcelona, Spain.
Conlin, Kimberly E., Gene Mirus, Claude Mauk and Richard P. Meier. 1999.
Acquisition of first signs: place, handshape and movement. Language by
Eye, ed. C. Chamberlain, Jill P. Morford & Rachel Mayberry. Lawrence
Erlbaum: Hillside, NJ.
Cormier, Kearsy, Claude Mauk and Ann Repp. 1998. Manual babbling in deaf and hearing infants: a longitudinal study. Proceedings from Child Language Research Forum 28, ed. Eve V. Clark. CSLI Press: Stanford.
Meier, Richard P., Claude Mauk, Gene Mirus and Kimberley E. Conlin. 1998.
Motoric constraints on early sign production. Proceedings from Child
Language Research Forum 28, ed. Eve V. Clark. CSLI Press: Stanford.