H. STEPHEN STRAIGHT

Email: sstraight@binghamton.edu

(PhD University of Chicago 1972), Professor of Anthropology and of Linguistics, is a linguist specializing in psycholinguistics: the study of language comprehension and production (see 1999 and 2000 below) and their acquisition and use.  He has studied French, German, Japanese, Yucatec Maya (see 2004 below), Spanish, and Romanian, performed field work in Yucatan, and resided in Romania.  A member of the Anthropology Department since 1970, since 1999 Straight has been serving as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and International Affairs, and in Spring 2005 he held a sabbatical position as Senior Associate in the Center for International Initiatives at the American Council on Education in Washington, DC (see 1998 and 2002 below).

2004        Psycholinguistic aspects of verbo-nominal polyvalence in Maya roots.  (Refereed paper, annual meeting, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Victoria, BC, 29 July-2 August 2003.)  In Gordon D Fulton, William J Sullivan, & Arle R Lommel (eds), LACUS Forum XXX, Houston, TX: LACUS, 197-205

2003        Review of Clyde L Hardin & Luisa Maffi, eds (1997) Color categories in thought and language.  INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN PHILOSOPHY, 45(2): 279-282

2002        H Stephen Straight and Katharine C Krebs: [Campus case study:] Binghamton University.  In David Engberg & Madeleine F Green (eds), Promising practices: Spotlighting excellence in comprehensive internationalization, Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 41-50

2000        Speaking and comprehending: Two underlying systems.  (Abstract)  In Victor H Yngve & Zdzislaw Wasik (eds), Exploring the domain of human-centered linguistics from a hard-science perspective, The School of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 21-22

1999        Central aphasia and the Myth of G: Toward a grammar-free linguistics.  (Refereed paper, annual meeting, Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States, Claremont, CA, 28 July-1 August 1998.)  In Shin Ja J Hwang & Arle R Lommel (eds), LACUS Forum XXV, Fullerton, CA: LACUS, 331-347

1998        H Stephen Straight & Virginia M Fichera: Embedding languages across the curriculum. In Robert E Shoenberg & Barbara Turlington (eds), Next steps for languages across the curriculum: Promise, problems, and prospects, Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 35-41

 

Courses for the Spring 2008 Semester: ANTH 392, GLST 392

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