David P. Birdsong
Professor — Ph.D., Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures
Professor, French Linguistics

Contact
- E-mail: birdsong@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-7299
- Office: HRH 2.122
- Office Hours: Thursdays 10:30-11:30 and by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B7600
Interests
second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, French linguistics
Courses
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
36330 • Spring 2020
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM MEZ 4.136
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 392K • L2a Plasticity/Variab/Age
36440 • Spring 2019
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
36795 • Fall 2017
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
36815 • Fall 2017
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM CLA 1.404
FR 392K • Tpcs In Second Lang Acquisitn
36810 • Spring 2017
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 4.102B
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
36640 • Fall 2016
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
35990 • Spring 2016
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM CLA 1.404
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
35840 • Fall 2015
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
FR 392K • Tpcs In Second Lang Acquisitn
36115 • Spring 2015
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 4.102B
FR 180P • Intro To Studies In Lit & Cul
37015 • Fall 2014
Meets W 5:00PM-6:00PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as ITL 180P)
FR 392K • Experimental Rsch In Lang Sci
37385 • Spring 2014
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM HRH 4.102B
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 324L • Practical Phonetics
37110 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 4.102B
FR 392K • Tpcs In Second Lang Acquisitn
36920 • Spring 2013
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM BEN 1.108
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 392K • Experimental Rsch In Lang Sci
36770 • Spring 2012
Meets T 3:30PM-6:30PM MEZ 2.120
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 392K • Tpcs In Second Lang Acquisitn
36970 • Spring 2011
Meets W 4:30PM-7:30PM HRH 4.102B
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 324L • Practical Phonetics
36425 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM HRH 4.102B
FR 324L • Practical Phonetics
36430 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM HRH 4.102B
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
36730 • Spring 2010
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM HRH 4.102B
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 324L • Practical Phonetics
36955 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM HRH 4.102B
FR 392K • Tpcs In Second Lang Acquisitn
36145 • Spring 2009
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM HRH 2.112
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
37140 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 4.102B
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
37075 • Spring 2008
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM HRH 4.102B
(also listed as LIN 392)
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
37575 • Fall 2007
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM HRH 4.102B
FR 392K • End State In Sec Lang Acquisit
36410 • Spring 2007
Meets W 3:00PM-6:00PM PAR 301
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
37020 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ B0.302
FR 392K • Experimental Research & Design
35370 • Spring 2006
Meets W 5:00PM-8:00PM HRH 4.102B
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
34890 • Fall 2005
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MEZ B0.302
PSY 341K • Language And Thought-W
42595 • Fall 2004
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 3
C2
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
32545 • Spring 2004
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM CAL 323
FR 392K • Experimental Rsch In Lang Sci
33295 • Fall 2003
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM HRH 4.102B
(also listed as LIN 392)
PSY 341K • Language And Thought-W
41140 • Fall 2003
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 109
C2
FR 320E • Adv French I: Written Emphasis
32275 • Spring 2003
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM CAL 419
FR 392K • Cognition & Psycholinguistics
32825 • Fall 2002
Meets MW 2:00PM-3:30PM HRH 2.112
PSY 341K • Language And Thought
40937 • Fall 2002
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 303
FR 392K • End State In Sec Lang Acquisit
32415 • Spring 2002
Meets TH 3:30PM-6:30PM GAR 200
PSY 341K • Language And Thought
41145 • Fall 2001
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 1.146
FR F322E • Adv French II: Oral Emphasis
84135 • Summer 2001
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM BEN 130
FR 392K • Experimental Rsch In Lang Sci
32440 • Spring 2001
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM GAR 215
LIN 373 • Intro To Cognitive Science
36900 • Spring 2001
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM PAR 206
(also listed as PHL 365)
FR 392K • Second Language Acquisition
32335 • Spring 2000
Meets W 3:30PM-6:30PM MEZ 134
(also listed as LIN 392)
Publications
List of all publications:
Google Scholar
Recent Publications:
Plasticity, variability and age in second language acquisition and bilingualism (2018)
D. Birdsong
Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0081
Intuitions for phonological constraints in binomial locutions: A psycholinguistic investigation. (2018)
V. Green and D. Birdsong
Language Sciences, 66, 116-134.
Age of Second-Language Acquisition: Critical Periods and Social Concerns (2016)
D. Birdsong and J. Vanhove
The American Psychological Association Press, pp. 163-181.
Dominance in bilingualism: Foundations of measurement, with insights from the study of handedness (2016)
D. Birdsong
In C. Silva-Corvalán and J. Treffers-Daller (Eds), Language Dominance in Bilinguals: Issues of Measurement and Operationalization
Cambridge U. Press, 85-105
Processing focus structure in L1 and L2 French: L2 proficiency effects on ERPs (2014)
R. Reichle, D. Birdsong
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 36, 535-564
Dominance and age in bilingualism (2014)
D. Birdsong
Applied Linguistics
Oxford University Press, 1-20
In faint praise of folly: A critical review of native/non-native speaker comparisons, with examples from native and bilingual processing of french complex syntax (2013)
D. Birdsong, L. Gertken
Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 4, 107-133
The Critical Period Hypothesis for second language acquisition: Tailoring the coat of many colors (2013)
D. Birdsong
Essential topics in applied linguistics and multilingualism, 43-50
Three perspectives on non-uniform linguistic attainment (2012)
D. Birdsong
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2 (3), 255-259
Selected Earlier Publications:
Uninterpretable features: Psychology and plasticity in second language learnability (2009)
D. Birdsong
Second Language Research 25 (2), 235-243
Age and the end state of second language acquisition (2009)
D. Birdsong
The new handbook of second language acquisition. Amsterdam: Elsevier
Age and second language acquisition and processing: A selective overview (2006)
D. Birdsong
Language Learning 56 (s1), 9-49
On the evidence for maturational constraints in second-language acquisition (2001)
D. Birdsong, M. Molis
Journal of memory and language 44 (2), 235-249
Regular-irregular dissociations in L2 acquisition of English morphology (2001)
D. Birdsong, J.E. Flege
BUCLD 25: Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development
Introduction: Whys and why nots of the Critical Period Hypothesis for second language acquisition (1999, 2013 paperback)
D. Birdsong
Second language acquisition and the Critical Period Hypothesis, 1-22
Ultimate attainment in second language acquisition (1992)
D. Birdsong
Language 68 (4), 706-755