Education:
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego - 2019 (Linguistics)
M.A., University of Copenhagen - 2011 (Linguistics)
B.A., University of Copenhagen - 2008 (Linguistics)
Areas of Expertise:
Professor Frederiksen's research focuses on the psycholinguistics of sign language and bilingualism. She is interested in how sentences and longer discourses are produced and understood, especially with respect to how language users refer to people and things across clauses. Professor Frederiksen's work also investigates the complex interactions between language experience and environment, language processing, and non-linguistic cognitive functions.
Books and Publications
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Judith F. Kroll. Regulation and Control: What Bimodal Bilingualism
Reveals about Learning and Juggling Two Languages. Languages. doi.org/10.3390/languages7030214 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Pronoun Production and Comprehension in
American Sign Language: The Interaction of Space, Grammar, and Semantics. Language, Cognition
and Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2021.1968013 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Implicit Causality Biases and Thematic Roles in
American Sign Language. Behavior Research Methods. doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01561-1 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Emerging ASL Distinctions in Sign-Speech Bilinguals' Signs and Co-
Speech Gestures in Descriptions of Placement Events. Frontiers in Psychology. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.686485 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Reference tracking in early stages of different
modality L2 acquisition: Limited over-explicitness in novice ASL signers' referring expressions.
Second Language Research, 35, 253-283. doi.org/10.1177/0267658317750220 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Separating Viewpoint from Mode of Representation in Iconic Co-
Speech Gestures: Insights from Danish Narratives. Language and Cognition, 9, 677-708. ,a href="doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.35">doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.35 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Who's on First? Investigating the Referential Hierarchy
in Simple Native ASL Narratives. Lingua, 180, 49-68. doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2016.03.007 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Frederiksen, Anne Therese. Hold + stroke gesture sequences as cohesion devices: Examples from
Danish narratives. San Diego Linguistics Papers, 6, 2-13 (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2016
Frederiksen, Anne Therese & Rachel I. Mayberry. Tracking Reference in Space: How L2 Learners
Use ASL Referring Expressions. In Grillo, E. & Jepson, K. Proceedings of the 39th Boston University
Conference on Language Development (pp. 165-177). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2015
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
Outstanding Teaching Award, University of California, Irvine (Awards and Honors) 2021
National Science Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Consequences of Language Modality
on Language Processing, Regulation, and Cognitive Control (SBE-2005246, PI) (Grants and Fellowships) 2020
University of California Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship: Code-Blending and Pronoun Processing
in Bimodal Bilinguals (PI, Sponsor: Judith Kroll; Co-sponsor: Jill Morford) (Grants and Fellowships) 2019
XPRAG.de Internship: Pragmatic Influences on Pronouns in German Sign Language, DGS. (September-
December; co-PI, PI: Marcus Steinbach), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant: Investigating
the Interplay between Language and Cognition in American Sign Language Referential Cohesion
(BCS-1650581, co-PI. PI: Rachel Mayberry) (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
