Resume of Marcia C. Linebarger

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EDUCATION:

B.A., 1970, Classical Languages, University of California at Berkeley
Ph.D., 1980, Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS:

National Institutes of Health (NIH) graduate traineeship, MIT, 1974-1978
NIH National Research Service Award, University of Pennsylvania, 1982-1984
Sloan postdoctoral fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1981-1982

GRANT SUPPORT:

Principal investigator, New Investigator Award, NIH, 1985-1987

Principal investigator, Computer-based mapping therapy for agrammatism (NIH/NIDCD), 1995-1999

Principal investigator, Albert Einstein Society, Promoting Access to the Internet in Aphasia: An Augmentative Communication System for E-mail, 2000

Consultant, Cognitive Rehabilitation Research Network (J. Whyte, P.I. - NIH-NICHD) 2000-2003

Consortium PI, AAC Processing Support for Spoken Language in Aphasia (M. Schwartz, PI - NIH/NICHHD), 2003-2008

Consortium PI, Analysis and Remediation of Language Production (R. Berndt, PI - NIH/NIDCD), 2003-2008

POSITIONS HELD:

Director, Psycholinguistic Technologies, Inc., 2001-
Software Engineer, Natural Language Understanding Group, Unisys Corporation, 1985-2001
Visiting Assistant Professor, Linguistics, University of Delaware, 1993
Lecturer in linguistics, Swarthmore College, 1981-1982, 1983-1984
Assistant professor, Hampshire College, 1982-1983

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Academy of Aphasia
Linguistic Society of America
International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Linebarger, M., McCall, D., Virata, T., & Berndt, R. (in press) Widening the temporal window: Processing support in the treatment of aphasic language production. Brain and Language.

Linebarger, M., & Schwartz, M. (2005). AAC for hypothesis-testing and treatment of aphasic language production: Lessons from a processing prosthesis. Aphasiology, 19, 930-942.

Linebarger, M., McCall, D., & Berndt, R. (2004) The role of processing support in the remediation of aphasic language production disorders. Cognitive Neuropsychology 21,267-282.

Linebarger, M. (2004) Reversibility/Mapping disorders. In R.D. Kent (Ed.), MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders. Cambridge,MA: MIT Press.

Linebarger, M., Schwartz, M., Kantner, T., & McCall, D. (2002) Promoting access to the Internet in Aphasia [abstract]. Brain and Language , 83, 169-172.

McCall, D., Linebarger, M., & Berndt, R. (2002) Retraining narrative production: Impact of processing support [abstract]. Brain and Language , 83, 172-175.

Linebarger, M., Schwartz, M., & Kohn, S. (2001) Computer-based training of language production: An exploratory study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 11(1), 57-96.

Linebarger, M., Schwartz, M., Romania, J., Kohn, S., & Stephens, D. (2000) Grammatical encoding in aphasia: Evidence from a 'processing prosthesis'. Brain and Language 75, 416-427.

Linebarger, M., Romania, J., Kohn, S., Schwartz, M., & Locatelli [Stephens], D. (1998) Competence versus performance in agrammatic production: Evidence from an augmentative communication system [abstract]. Brain and Language , 65, 199-202.

Linebarger, M. (1998) Algorithmic and heuristic processes in agrammatic language comprehension. In Baastianse, R., & E. Visch-Brink (Eds.), Linguistic Levels of Aphasiology . San Diego: Singular Publishing Group. Inc.

Saffran, E., Schwartz, M., and Linebarger, M. (1998) Semantic influences on thematic role assignment: Evidence from normals and aphasics. Brain and Language , 62:255-297.

Linebarger, M. (1995) Agrammatism as evidence about grammar. Brain and Language , 50, 52-91.

Linebarger, M., Norton, L., & Dahl, D. (1993) A portable approach to last resort parsing and interpretation. Proceedings of the ARPA Human Language Technology Workshop , Princeton, NJ.

Linebarger, M. (1992) Negative polarity as linguistic evidence. In Dobrin, L., Nichols, L., and R. Rodriguez (Eds.), CLS 27-II: Papers from the parasession on negation , Chicago, IL.

Norton, L., Linebarger, M., and Dahl, D. (1991) Augmented role filling capabilities for semantic interpretation of spoken language. Proceedings of the Fourth DARPA Workshop on Speech and Natural Language .

Linebarger, M. (1990) Neuropsychology of sentence parsing. In Caramazza, A. (Ed.) Cognitive Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics: Advances in Models of Cognitive Function and Impairment . Lawrence Erlbaum.

Linebarger, M. (1989) Neuropsychological evidence for linguistic modularity. In Carlson, G. and M. Tanenhaus (Eds.), Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics . Dordrecht: Reidel.

Linebarger, M., Dahl, D., Hirschman, L., and Passonneau, R.(1988) Sentence fragments regular structures. Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics , 7-16.

Schwartz, M., Linebarger, M., Saffran, E., and Pate, D.(1987) Syntactic transparency and sentence interpretation in aphasia. Language and Cognitive Processes 2: 85-113.

Linebarger, M. (1987) Negative polarity and grammatical representation. Linguistics and Philosophy 10:4, 325-387.

Schwartz, M., Linebarger, M., and Saffran, E. (1985) The status of the syntactic theory of agrammatism. In Kean, M.-L. (Ed.), Agrammatism . New York: Academic Press.

Linebarger, M., Schwartz, M., and Saffran, E. (1983) Syntactic processing in agrammatism: A reply to Zurif and Grodzinsky. Cognition 15, 207-213.

Linebarger, M., Schwartz, M., and Saffran, E. (1983) Sensitivity to grammatical structure in so-called agrammatic aphasics. Cognition 13, 361-392.

Linebarger, M. (1981) The Grammar of Negative Polarity . Distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club and by MIT Working Papers in Linguistics.

Linebarger, M. (1980) Polarity 'any' as an existential quantifier. In Kreiman and Ojeda (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society , Chicago, IL.