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Eric Pederson, Mentor
Linguistics

Isaac Torres, McNair Scholar

Associate Professor Eric Pederson earned his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and joined the UO Linguistics faculty in 1997. His areas of interest are psycholinguistics, semantics, typology, anthropological linguistics, and Dravidian languages. He has a “general concern for the relation of language and language processing to general cognition. I assume that any particular linguistic patterns...also potentially reflect patterns of thought beyond this language use. Because non-linguistic behavior and patterns of human cognition can vary cross-culturally, I have a strong commitment to cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation." His publications include "How many reference frames?" Spatial Cognition 3. Berlin: Springer-Verlag; "Cognitive Linguistics and linguistics relativity," in The Cognitive Linguistics Handbook, D. Geeraerts and H. Cuyckens, eds. Oxford University Press (in press); and “Tamil spatial language," in The Grammars of Space, S. Levinson and D. Wilkins eds. Cambridge University Press (in press).