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Name:	Malcolm  Awadajin Finney
Institution:	California State University, Long Beach
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Homepage:	http://www.csulb.edu/depts/ling/f_finney.htm
State and/or Country:	CA USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Applied Linguistics Forensic Linguistics Language Acquisition
Specialty:	Acquisition of first and second languages and bilingual language development
Subject Language(s):	Krio
Language Family(ies):	Niger-Congo Romance Indo-European New English
Selected Publications:	“Tone assignment on Lexical Items of English and African Origin in Krio”. Forthcoming in Genevieve Escure & Armin Schwegler (eds) Creoles, Contact and Language Change: Linguistics and Social Implications. John Benjamins (2004). “The Dynamics of Morphosyntactic Operations in Krio”. Linguistic Review, Volume 2, Issue 3 (2003). “Effects Of Spanish Pragmatic And Lexical Constraints In The Interpretation Of L2 English Anaphora.” Pragmatics, Vol.12, No. 3, (2002) 297-328. “Compounding and Reduplication in Krio.” Journal of West African Languages, Vol. 29, No. 2, (2002) 23-34. “Service Learning And Prospective Nonnative ESL Teachers: Drawbacks And Benefits.” Academic Exchange Extra, November 2002. 'Markedness, Operator Movement, And Discourse Effects In The Acquisition of Purpose Clause Constructions In A Second Language.' Second Language Research 13 (1), 1997.
Courses Taught:	Language Acquisition Bilingualism
Reviewer of:	Review of Hawkins' Second Language Syntax (LL Issue 12.1711) Review of Larry Andrews: Linguistics for L2 Teachers (LL Issue 12.174) Sociolinguistics: Cenoz & Jessner, eds. (2000) (LL Issue 12.166) Applied Linguistics/Typology: Ramat (2003) (LL Issue 14.3124)
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