Carol Lord

Associate Professor

Department of Teacher Education (CED)

Department of Linguistics (CLA)

Office: ED2 - 178

Phone: 562-985-9304

Email: clord@csulb.edu

Biography

Carol Lord has a joint appointment in the Teacher Education Department and the Linguistics Department at California State University Long Beach. She has taught a range of courses, including first and second language development, second language testing and assessment, literacy research/theory/practice, linguistic field methods, syntax, and educational linguistics. She has degrees in English and education from Stanford University and a PhD in linguistics from UCLA, as well as California Elementary and Secondary teaching credentials.

Her publications and research interests include language and literacy development, assessment for English language learners, language structures (typology, syntax/semantics and lexicon), and language change over time, with special attention to grammaticalization.

She has served on the English Advisory Panel for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and has co-chaired the Committee on Language in the School Curriculum of the Linguistic Society of America.

Publications

Bailey A. L., Butler, F. A., Stevens, R., & Lord, C. (2006). Further specifying the

language demands of school. In A.L. Bailey (Ed.), Language demands of school:

Putting academic language to the test. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Abedi, J., Hofstetter, C. H., & Lord, C. (2004). Assessment accommodations for English language learners: Implications for policy based research. Review of Educational Research, 74(1), 1-28.

Lord, C. & Craig, L. B. (2004). Coordination and concatenation in Sgaw Karen: Encoding familiar events. In M. Haspelmath (Ed.) Coordinating constructions (pp. 357-370), in Typological Studies in Linguistics series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Butler, F. A., Bailey, A. L., Stevens, R., Lord, C., & Huang, B. (2004). Academic English in fifth-grade mathematics, science, and social studies textbooks, Technical Report #642. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Butler, F. A., Lord, C., Stevens, R., Borrego, M., & Bailey, A. L. (2004b). An approach to operationalizing academic language for language test development purposes: Evidence from fifth-grade science and mathematics, Technical Report #626. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Butler, F. A., Lord, C., Stevens, R., Borrego, M. & Bailey, A. L. (2004a). Towards the characterization of academic language in upper elementary science classrooms, Technical Report #621. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Lord, C. (2002). Are subordinate clauses more difficult? In J. Bybee and M. Noonan (Eds.), Subordination in discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Lord, C. Iwasaki, S., & Yap, F. H. (2002). “Grammaticalization of ‘give’: African and Asian perspectives. In I. Wischer & G. Diewald (Eds.), New reflections on grammaticalization, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Grammaticalization, 17-19 June 1999, at Potsdam University, Germany, in Typological Studies in Language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Abedi, J. & Lord, C. (2001). The language factor in mathematics tests. Applied Measurement in Education, 14(3), 219-234.

Abedi, J., Lord, C., Boscardin, C. K., & Miyoshi, J. (2001). The effects of accommodations on the Assessment of Limited English Proficient (LEP) students in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), Technical Report #537. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Abedi, J., Hofstetter, C., Baker, E. & Lord, C. (2001). NAEP mathematics performance and test accommodations: Interactions with student language background, Technical Report #536. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Abedi, J., Lord, C., Hofstetter, C., & Baker, E. (2000). Impact of accommodation strategies on English Language Learners’ test performance. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 19(3), 16-26.

Abedi, J., Lord, C. & Hofstetter, C. (1998). Impact of selected background variables on students’ NAEP mathematics performance, Technical Report #478. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Abedi, J., Lord, C. & Plummer, J. (1997). Language background as a variable in NAEP mathematics performance, Technical Report #429. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of Evaluation, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Lord, C. & Dahlgren, K. (1997). Participant and event anaphora in newspaper articles. In J. Bybee, J. Haiman, & S. A. Thompson (Eds.), Essays on language function and language type, Dedicated to T. Givon (pp. 323-356). Amsterdam, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Lord, C. (1993). Historical change in serial verb constructions, Typological Studies in Language No. 26. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Dahlgren, K., Lord, C., Wada, H., McDowell, J., & Stabler, E. P. (1991). ITP: Description of the Interpretext System as used for MUC-3. Proceedings of the 3^rd Conference on Message Understanding, San Diego, CA, Association for Computational Linguistics, 163-170.

Lord, C. (1989). Syntactic reanalysis in the historical development of serial verb constructions in languages of West Africa, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles.

Lord, C. (1984). Comments on the Paper by Eckman. In W. E. Rutherford (Ed.), Language universals and second language acquisition (pp. 106-107). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Lord, C. (1982). The development of object markers in serial verb languages. In S. A. Thompson & P. Hopper (Eds.), Syntax and semantics 15 (pp. 277-299). New York: Academic Press.

Lord, C. (1979). "Don't you fall me down”: Children's generalizations regarding cause and transitivity. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 17, 81-89.

Lord, C. (1977). How Igbo got from SOV serializing to SVO compounding. Studies in African Linguistics Supplement 7, 145-155.

Lord, C. (1976). Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From verb to complementizer in Kwa. Papers from the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax, Chicago Linguistic Society, 179-191.

Lord, C. (1975). Igbo verb compounds and the lexicon. Studies in African Linguistics 6(1), 23-48.

Lord, C. (1974). Resultative verb compounds in Igbo. In S. A. Thompson & C. Lord (Eds.), Approaches to the lexicon, UCLA Papers in Syntax No. 6 (pp. 146-165.

Lord, C. (1974). Variations in the pattern of acquisition of negation. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 8, 78-86.

Thompson, S. A. & Lord, C., Eds. (1974) Approaches to the Lexicon, UCLA Papers in Syntax No. 6.

Lord, C. (1974). Causative constructions in Yoruba. Studies in African Linguistics Supplement 5, 195-204.

Lord, C. (1973). Serial verbs in transition. Studies in African Linguistics, 4(3), 269-296.

Conference Presentations

Lord, C. (2007 July). Does the sentence end here? Patterns of novel sentence-final intonation. Interactive paper accepted for presentation at Annual Conference, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Lord, C., Berdan, R. & Fender, M.. (2007 March). Distinguishing function words from content words in children’s oral reading. Paper accepted for presentation at Georgetown University Round Table: Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, and Acquisition, Washington, DC.

Berdan, R., Lord, C. & Fender, M.. (2006 November). Oral reading fluency: Underlying prosodic features. Paper presented at National Reading Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

Lord, C. , Berdan, R. & Fender, M. (2006 July). Stress on function words: Different patterns for fluent and non-fluent readers. Paper presented at Annual Conference, Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Vancouver, B. C., Canada.

Berdan, R. & Lord, C. (2006 April). Micro-analysis of oral reading rates: Fluent readers are not just faster. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Berdan, R. & Lord, C. (2006 January). Children’s construction of constituents and meaning structures: Prosodic evidence from oral reading. Paper presented at Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lord, C., (Co-organizer and Moderator) (2006 January). Workshop on K-12 linguistics materials. Organized session at Annual Meeting, Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM.

Lord, C. (2003 June). Verb Sequences in Igbo: Forms and Functions. Paper presented at International Workshop on Serial Verb Constructions, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Institute of Advanced Study, LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Lord, C. & Craig, L. (2003 May). Influences of iconicity and frequency on the grammar of Sgaw Karen. Paper presented at 13^th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistic Society (SEALS), University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Bailey, A. & Lord, C. (2003). Evidentiary bases for the creation of academic language proficiency expectations. Paper presented as part of symposium, Academic English Language Proficiency Expectations for English Language Learners: Perspectives from Educational Policy, Language Development Research and Student Testing, at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lord, C. (2002 July). Classroom talk and textbook analyses: Exposure to academic language in the classroom. Paper presented at Academic English Language Proficiency Panel Meeting, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Lord, C. (2002 June). Sentence structure and vocabulary factors in text understanding: Evidence from math word problems. Paper presented at Twelfth Annual Meeting, The Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

Lord, C. & Craig, L. (2001 July). Verb phrase sequences in Karen. Paper presented at Workshop on Tibeto-Burman Languages, Linguistic Society of America Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lord, C. (2001 April). Linguistic difficulty and assessment Accommodations for English Language Learners. Paper presented as part of symposium, Towards Effective Assessment of English Language Learners Through Testing Accommodations and a Portfolio System, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Lord, C. (2001 March). Patterns of grammaticalization of ‘give’ in Kwa languages. Paper presented at Annual Conference on African Linguistics #32, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Lord, C. (2000 April). Linguistic complexity in items in content area assessments. Paper presented at Special Interest Group on Research on the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and Limited English Proficient Students in Large-Scale Assessments, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Lord, C. (2000 January). The verb ‘give’ and its grammaticalized descendants in African and Asian Languages. Paper presented at Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lord, C., Iwasaki, S., & Yap, F. H. (1999 June) Grammaticalization of ‘give’ in serial verb constructions in West African and East and Southeast Asian languages. Paper presented at conference, New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Potsdam, Germany.

Lord, C. & Son, Hyesook (1999 April). The influence of Korean language patterns on English conversation. Paper presented at Annual Conference, California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Reno, NV.

Lord, C. (1999 April). Identifying sources of linguistic difficulty in content area assessments for English Language Learners. Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Lord, C. (1999 March) Assessing content area knowledge of English Language Learners. Paper presented at the Annual Conference, American Association for Applied Linguistics, Stamford, CT.

Lord, C. & Snyder, P. (1995 September). Are language difficulties limiting our students' math performance? Paper presented at Assessment at the Crossroads, CRESST Conference, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Lord, C. (1989 May). Tracking participants and events in newspaper articles. Paper presented at Linguistics Department Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.

Lord, C. (1982 February). Comments on Eckman’s view of universal constraints on interlanguage. Paper presented at Conference on Universals and Second Language Acquisition, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Lord, C. (1979 March). The evolution of object markers in Benue-Kwa. Paper presented at International Conference on Historical Linguistics IV, Stanford University Stanford, CA.

Lord, C. (1979). “Don't you fall me down”: Children's generalizations regarding cause and transitivity. Paper presented at the Eleventh Annual Stanford Child Language Forum, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Lord, C. (1977). How Igbo got from SOV serializing to SVO compounding. Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

Lord, C. (1976). Evidence for syntactic reanalysis: From verb to complementizer in Kwa. Paper presented at the Parasession on Diachronic Syntax, Chicago Linguistic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Lord, C. (1974). Variations in the pattern of acquisition of negation. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford, CA.

Lord, C. (1974). Causative constructions in Yoruba. Paper presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, Stanford, CA.

Lord, C. (1973). Serial verbs in transition. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on African Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.