Free University of Berlin
Which school did Mandana Seyfeddinipur go to from 1999 to 2000?
Mandana Seyfeddinipur Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a linguist , author , and educator . She is the director of the SOAS World Languages Institute at the University of London . She is also the Head of the Endangered Languages Archive . Early life and education . Seyfeddinipur grew up in Germany . She studied linguistics and Persian studies at the Free University of Berlin and graduated with a Masters degree . She received her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Radboud University Nijmegen from 2000 to 2005 . Her dissertation was entitled Disfluency : Interrupting speech and gesture . She then worked as a Marie Curie postdoctoral work Stanford University from 2006 to 2009 . Career . After another short stay at the Max Planck Institute , Seyfeddinipur moved to the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) at the University of London in 2010 , where she became head of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme , which has been awarding grants for the documentation of endangered languages worldwide since 2002 , financed by the private Arcadia Foundation . Since 2014 she has headed the Endangered Languages Archive ( ELAR ) , which deals with the digital preservation of endangered languages and makes digital collections of endangered languages digitally accessible worldwide . As an expert in the fields of language use , multimedia and digital technology for documentation , she trains scientists to develop multimedia collections of endangered languages . Seyfeddinipur teaches courses in Visual Mode of Language , the use of videos in field research on endangered languages , language psychology and language use . Her research interests focus on ( audiovisual ) language documentation , cultural and linguistic diversity in language use , psycholinguistics and language production . She is also involved in work on the preservation of poetry and other literature in endangered languages . Publications . Monographs . - Disfluency : Interrupting speech and gesture . Nijmegen : MPI-Series in Psycholinguistics ; 2006 . ( PhD ) Articles . - with Dale Barr : The role of fillers in listener attributions for speaker disfluency , in : Language and Cognitive Processes , ( 25 ) , pp 441–455 ; 2010 . - with Sotaro Kita and Peter Indefrey : How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking : Evidence from self-repairs , in : Cognition , ( 108 ) 3 , pp 837–842 ; 2008 . - with Sotaro Kita : Gestures and speech disfluencies , in : Proceedings of the 27th Conference of the Berkeley Linguistic Society , ( BLS ) Berkeley , February 2001. ; 2003 . - with Sotaro Kita : Gesture as an indicator of early error detection in self-monitoring of speech , in : Proceedings of the ISCA ( International Speech Communication Association ) Tutorial and Research Workshop . DiSS’01:Disfluency in spontaneous speech’ University of Edinburgh , Scotland ; 2001 . Other . - From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance . Amsterdam : Benjamins ; 2014 . With Marianne Gullberg . - Reasons for Documenting Gestures and Suggestions for How to Go About It . In : Nicholas Thieberger ( Hrsg. ) , The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Fieldwork . Oxford : Oxford University Press ; 2011 . - Meta-discursive gestures from Iran : Some uses of the ‘Pistolhand’ , in : Cornelia Mueller und Roland Posner ( Hrsg. ) . The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures : Proceedings of the Berlin Conference April 1998 . Berlin : Weidler Verlag ; 2004 . - with Sotaro Kita : Gestures and repairs in speech , in : Christian Cavé , Isabelle Guaïtella und Serge Santi ( Hrsg. ) : Oralité et Gestualité . Interactions et comportements multimodaux dans la communication . Actes du colloque ORAGE 2001 . Paris : lHarmattan , pp 266–279 ; 2001 . External links . - SOAS staff page - TEDxLSHTM talk of Mandana Seyfeddinipur : Endangered languages : why it matters ( Video , YouTube ) - Endangered Languages Documentation Programme ( ELDP )