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Heather Littlefield

Heather Littlefield

Assistant Academic Specialist and Head Advisor of Linguistics

Expertise
acquisition of syntactic categories in first language acquisition, syntactic distinction of lexical and functional categories, syntax of African languages
Contact

h.littlefield@neu.edu
617.373.3164

Related Articles

3Qs: The evolution of profanity

Instead of saying “Pardon my French” when we curse, we should be saying, “Pardon my Old Eng­lish,” says Heather Lit­tle­field, head advisor of the lin­guis­tics pro­gram at Northeastern.

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3Qs: Not your mother’s neologisms

“Lolz,” “pho­to­bombing” and “mwa­ha­haha” have recently been added to Oxford Dic­tio­naries Online, prompting a dis­cus­sion of our modern taste for dig­ital jargon.

Heather Littlefield

Selected Publications

For a complete list of faculty citations, please visit iRis, Northeastern’s digital archive.

Paper

Trends in African Linguistics 6: Kinyira Njira!–Step Firmly on the Pathway

(with Githiora, C, and V. Manfredi) Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

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