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				John W. Oller, Jr.,Ph.D.
				Doris B. Hawthorne/BoRSF Endowed Professor IV, Department of Communicative Disorders
				B.A., Spanish and French, California State University at Fresno, 1965 General Secondary Teaching Credential, California State University at Fresno, 1966 M.A. in General Linguistics, University of Rochester, New York, 1968 Ph.D. in General Linguistics, University of Rochester, New York, 1969
				P. O. Box 43170 Lafayette, LA 70504-3170 Foster Halll, Room 203 Phone: 337-482-6721 Email: joller@louisiana.edu URL: http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~jxo1721/
				Short List of Research Interests: Theoretical semiotics as applied to language use, acquisition, and disorders Language proficiency measurement as related to all aspects of intelligence Autism spectrum disorders, especially, their diagnosis Measurement of cognitive, social, or psychological variables Major/Principal Publications: Oller, J. W., Jr., Oller, S. D., & Badon, L. C. (2006). Milestones: Normal speech and language development across the life span. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing, Inc. Oller, J. W., Jr. & Chen, Liang. (In press). Episodic organization in discourse and valid measurement in the sciences. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics. Badon, L. C., Oller, S. D., & Oller, J. W., Jr. (2005). Qualitative ratings within and across ethnic boundaries of maximally different methods of one on one reading instruction. Journal of Communication Disorders, 38(6), 445-457. Oller, J. W., Jr., Chen, L., Oller, S. D., and Pan, N. (2005). Empirical predictions from a general theory of signs. Discourse Processes, 40(2), 115-144. Oller, J. W., Jr. (2005). Common ground between form and content: The pragmatic solution to the bootstrapping problem. Modern Language Journal, 89, 92-114.

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