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Pilar Piñar
Visiting Scholar at Penn State
Associate Professor
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Pennsylvania State University
Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Department of Foreign Languages, Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington DC, 20002
Phone: TBA
Fax: TBA
E-mail: pilar.pinar@gallaudet.edu
Research Interests:
Gesture and sign language research, bilingualism and second language acquisition, sentence processing and literacy.
Recent Publications:
Dussias, P. and Piñar, P. (In press) Effects of reading span and plausibility in the reanalysis of wh-gaps by Chinese-English bilinguals. Journal of Second Language Research.
Dussias, P. and Piñar, P. (Under review) Sentence Parsing in L2 learners: Linguistic and Experience-based Factors . In William C. Ritchie and Tej K. Bhatia (Eds.) The New Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Elsevier Press..
Taub, S., Galvan, D., & Piñar, P. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies (In Press) Cognitive Linguistics.
Taub, S., Galvan, D. Piñar, P. & Mather, S. Gesture and ASL L2 Acquisition. (In press) In Muller de Quadros, R. (ed.) Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9.
Piñar, P., Ammons, D., & Montenegro, F. (2008) Incorporating Foreign Sign Language in Foreign Language Instruction for Deaf Students: Cultural and Methodological Rationale. In Tammy Berberi, Elizabeth C. Hamilton, and Ian M. Sutherland (Eds.), Worlds Apart?: Disability and Foreign Language Learning (pp. 137-150). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Taub, S. & Piñar, P. (2006) A comparison of the Informational Content of Speech/Gesture and Sign. In Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting of the Berkeley Linguistic Society.
Piñar. P. Español en Vivo: Conversations with native speakers, (textbook and DVD), New Haven, Connecticut:Yale University Press (2004).