Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen

[3]: 230  She is considered an important figure in the development of Danish functional linguistics,[4] and has also studied autism and the relation between language and cognition from a cognitive-functional perspective with focus on semantics and pragmatics.[6] In the media, she has participated in discussions of the use of cochlear implants in deaf children and its effect on the status of Danish Sign Language,[7] arguing that the removal of support for Danish Sign Language and resources associated with it has negative consequences.degree in linguistics and Danish from 1979 and was employed at the University of Copenhagen from 1983–1985 after which she was assistant professor of the psychology of language 1984–1989.[9][1] In 2012, a special issue of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen's journal Acta Linguistica Hafniensia was published dedicated to Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen on the occasion of her 60th birthday.[16] Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen has received a number of grants for research projects with her as the principal investigator:[2]
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