Shengyun Gu

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I am an assistant professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Occidental College (Oxy).   [Here is my CV]

My research interests: language structure (phonology, morphology,  phonetics, prosody), sign language linguistics, language acquisition (phonological development, bimodal bilingualism, second language learners' accents), language and cognition, and language documentation

My sign language name: BAMBOO (video)

Before that, 

I was a postdoctoral research associate in the Sign Linguistics & Language Acquisition Lab (PI: Diane Lillo-Martin) at the University of Connecticut (UConn)

I obtained my Ph.D.  in linguistics at UConn

Dissertation title: Bimanual coordination: The non-dominant hand in Shanghai Sign Language (link); Advisory committee: Harry van der Hulst and Diane Lillo-Martin (co-major advisors), Andrea Calabrese and Marie Coppola (associate advisors)

I received my B.A. at Tianjin Medical University and my Ph.D. at East China Normal University