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	Formal name: Louise de Beuzeville Position: ARC Post-doctoral Research Fellow Personal Title: Dr Qualifications: BAHons (Sydney) GradDipEd (Prim) (Sydney) MSpecEd(Deafness) (Renwick College, Newcastle) PhD (Renwick College, Newcastle) NAATI Para-professional Auslan/English interpreter Telephone: +61 2 9850 8635 Fax: +61 2 9850 9199 Email: Louise.DeBeuzeville@ling.mq.edu.au Location: C5A 549

Profile

Louise de Beuzeville is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow who has worked as a teacher of the deaf and of language disordered children, and an Auslan (Australian Sign Language)/English interpreter. Since her first years at university, however, her main passion has been linguistics, with a particular interest in language acquisition.

After learning Auslan at TAFE, she completed an honours thesis on the bilingual language acquisition of a hearing child from a deaf family. She then worked as a teacher of deaf children and completed a Masters in Special Education (Deafness) at Renwick College. In her PhD, she studied the language development of a large group of deaf children from deaf families. During her candidature, Louise worked as a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, as well as a teacher of sign language linguistics in community Auslan courses, and a casual Auslan/English interpreter.

Research:

Currently, Louise is working with Associate Professor Trevor Johnston on a 3 year project into the use of space in signed languages (funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants). She is supervising an honours student from the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney on the grammaticalisation of aspectual marking on verbs in Auslan. She is also continuing research on the language acquisition of deaf children from deaf families.

Main research interests:

• sign language linguistics
• language acquisition
• gesture
• the use of space in signed languages
• constructed action/role shift
• depicting verbs/classifier signs
• cognitive linguistics/usage-based models of language