Ronnie Wilbur
American linguist
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- PhD Linguistics University of California, San Diego
- Masters Linguistics University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Linguistics University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ronnie Bring Wilbur is an American theoretical and experimental linguist and a professor of linguistics in the Department of Linguistics, School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts, at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. She also has a joint appointment in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences in the College of Health and Human sciences. Her main focus is sign language linguistics. Some of Wilbur's major contributions to the subfield include the discovery that sign languages have syllables similar to spoken languages and that blinks can be used grammatically to mark clause boundaries. Wilbur is the director of the Sign Language Linguistics Laboratory at Purdue. Research on the cross-linguistic typology of sign languages is a major focus, including Croatian Sign Language , Austrian Sign Language , and Turkish Sign Language .
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