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Cecile McKee

Contact
  • (520) 621-2188
  • COMMUNICATIONS BLDG, Rm. 109
  • TUCSON, AZ 85721-0025
  • mckee@u.arizona.edu
  • Bio
  • Interests
  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Degrees

  • Ph.D. linguistics
    • U of Connecticut

Awards

  • Spirit of Philanthropy
    • Children's Museum Tucson / Oro Valley nominated me for this award from the Southern Arizona chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals., Fall 2018
  • Public Voices Fellow
    • Op Ed Project, Fall 2014

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Courses

2021-22 Courses

  • Directed Rsrch In Ling
    LING 492A (Spring 2022)
  • Funding Your Research
    SBS 595B (Spring 2022)
  • Language Development
    LING 341 (Fall 2021)
  • Language Development
    PSY 341 (Fall 2021)
  • Language Development
    SLHS 341 (Fall 2021)
  • Psychology of Language
    LING 432 (Fall 2021)
  • Psychology of Language
    PHIL 432 (Fall 2021)
  • Psychology of Language
    PSY 432 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Psychology of Language
    LING 432 (Spring 2021)
  • Psychology of Language
    PHIL 432 (Spring 2021)
  • Special Topics
    SBS 595 (Spring 2021)
  • Psychology of Language
    LING 432 (Fall 2020)
  • Psychology of Language
    PHIL 432 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • Language Development
    LING 341 (Spring 2020)
  • Language Development
    SLHS 341 (Spring 2020)
  • Special Topics
    HNRS 395A (Spring 2020)
  • Language Development
    LING 341 (Fall 2019)
  • Theories Lang Developmnt
    LING 533 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Independent Study
    LING 399 (Spring 2019)
  • Language Development
    LING 341 (Spring 2019)
  • Language Development
    PSY 341 (Spring 2019)
  • Language Development
    SLHS 341 (Spring 2019)
  • Language in the World
    LING 150A1 (Spring 2019)

2015-16 Courses

  • Directed Rsrch In Ling
    LING 392A (Spring 2016)
  • Directed Rsrch In Ling
    LING 492A (Spring 2016)
  • Dissertation
    LING 920 (Spring 2016)

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Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

  • Mckee, C. M., McDaniel, D., & Garrett, M. (2017). Children’s performance abilities: Language production. In Handbook of Psycholinguistics(pp 491-515). Wiley Blackwell.
    More info
    First listed in 2014, this one's finally published.

Journals/Publications

  • McDaniel, D., McKee, C. M., Cowart, W., & Garrett, M. (2015). The role of the language production system in shaping grammars. Language, 91, 415-441.
  • McKee, C. M., Zimmer, E. J., Fountain, A. V., Huang, H., & Vento, M. K. (2015). Public outreach in linguistics: Engaging broader audiences. Language and Linguistics Compass, 9, 349–357.
  • Mckee, C. M., Zimmer, E. J., Huang, H., Vento, M., & Fountain, A. V. (2015). Engaging Broader Audiences. Linguistics Compass, 9, 349-357.
  • Mckee, C. M. (2013). Articulation rate: Effects of age, fluency, and syntactic structure.. Revista de Logopedia, FoniatrĂ­a, y AudiologĂ­a.
    More info
    ___, D. McDaniel, M.F. Garrett, C. Lozoraitis, & M. Mutterperl (forthcoming).;Your Role: co-author;Collaborative with undergraduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: one student author (CL) and one professor author (DM) are at U of Southern Maine;

Proceedings Publications

  • McKee, C. M. (2015, no idea really). Linguistics for Everyone: Engaging a broader public for the scientific study of language. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, 39, 437-443.
    More info
    Too many authors to mess with this time-consuming system: Pearson, B.Z., Lidz, J., McKee, C., McCullough, E. Moore, L., Phillips, C., Speer, S., Wagner, L., & Zimmer, E.

Presentations

  • Zavisca, J. R., Mckee, C. M., & Tomkins, A. (2019, April). Broader Impacts through Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Research. National Alliance for Broader Impacts Summit 2019. Tucson: National Alliance for Broader Impacts.
  • McDaniel, D., & Mckee, C. M. (2017, July). Syntactic complexity and the developing production system. 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Lyon, France.
  • Mckee, C. M., Rentmeester, A., & Zimmer, E. (2017, May). Starting small: Launching a museum and university collaboration. InterActivity 2017. Pasadena, CA: Association of Children’s Museums.
    More info
    As one of the top 10 presentations in the conference, we have been invited to repeat our session in a Jan-2018 webinar for broader distribution to ACM members.
  • Mckee, C. M. (2016, July). From matriculation to graduate with jubilation. Keynote at 24th Annual New Start Academic Conference All the parts that make us whole, U of Arizon.
  • McKee, C. M. (2015, June). Lying, language, and linguistics. Raytheon Tucson Networking Club. Tucson: Raytheon.
  • McKee, C. M., Zimmer, E., & Huang, C. (2015, January). Linguistics at festivals. LSA. Portland, OR: LSA.
    More info
    ___, Zimmer, E., Huang, H.-Y. “Linguistics at festivals” in Linguistics for everyone: Tools and tips for do-it-yourselfers. Co-organized by J. Maling & B. Pearson. Panel at Linguistics Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
  • Zimmer, E., & McKee, C. M. (2015, November). Linguistic outreach to multilinguals. Arizona Linguistics Circle, 9. Tucson.
    More info
    2015 Zimmer, E., ___ “Linguistic outreach to multilinguals” in Arizona Linguistics Circle, 9; Tucson, AZ.
  • Mckee, C. M. (2013, summer). Children’s sentence planning seen through dysfluency and rate data. 25th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics. U of Iceland.
    More info
    co-authors Dana McDaniel (U of Southern Maine) and Merrill Garrett (emeritus, U of Arizona)
  • McDaniel, D., Mckee, C. M., Cowart, W., & Garrett, M. (2012, what I wrote above). The role of the language production system in extraction assymetries. International Workshop on Language Production. NYC.
  • Mckee, C. M. (2012, 2012-04-01). Sentence planning in little talkers. Linguistics Dept colloquium. Communication 311.
    More info
    ;Collaborative with faculty member at UA: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Dana McDaniel at USM;Type of Presentation: University;
  • Piattelli-Palmarini, M. -., Carnie, A. H., Wedel, A. B., Gerken, L. -., & Mckee, C. M. (2007, September). Poverty of the Stimulus. Cognitive Science Master Seminar. University of Arizona.

Poster Presentations

  • Mckee, C. M. (2021, April). ¡Hablemos! And so on …. LingComm21. online - see https://lingcomm.org/conference/.
    More info
    Poster on public engagement designed for multilingual audiences
  • Mckee, C. M. (2014, see above). “Who’s got the banana?” in Linguistics for everyone: Engaging a broader public for the scientific study of language acquisition. 39th Boston University Conference on Language Development.
    More info
    graduate students Elly Zimmer and Catherine Huang

Others

  • Mckee, C. M., Anderson, C., Ryan, S., & Gibson, H. (2021, April). Making lingcomm legible to academia. LingComm21.
    More info
    Panel on public engagement and higher education instititions
  • Mckee, C. M. (2019, February). Machine Learning and Human Language. AAAS annual meeting. https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Session/21343
    More info
    I organized this "scientific session." Moderator: Dragomir Radev (Yale), Speakers: Byron Wallace (Northeastern), Steve Bethard (UA), Robert Kraut (CMU). None of the roles above or classifications below are appropriate for my role.
  • Mckee, C. M. (2017, irrelevant). Children’s language learning in five words. Planet Word Blog. https://www.planetwordmuseum.org/blog/2017/5/24/child-language-learning-mckee
  • Zimmer, E., Mckee, C. M., & Nelson, N. (2017, irrelevant). More sciences at science festivals. Public Understanding of Science Blog. https://sagepus.blogspot.com/2017/03/planning-engagement-activities-for.html
  • Mckee, C. M. (2015, several). 6 short publications for public audiences (see CV).
    More info
    Sorry ... but this amazing system doesn't have a better place for me to list these and the required dates above ... GIGO:(2016) Visit a children’s museum! Huffington Post (Huffpost Education).w/ Zoernig, J. (2015) Five things you can do to deal with water shortage in the American West. Quartz. [This piece was developed through a Public Voices Fellowship with the OpEd Project.](2015) Lying is everyday occurrence — for famous, rest of us. Arizona Daily Star. [This piece was developed through a Public Voices Fellowship with the OpEd Project.]w/ Zimmer, E. (2015) Spock’s humanity was Nimoy’s gift. UA News.(2015) Thanks to the Academy ... Yawn. Huffington Post (Huffpost Entertainment). [This piece was developed through a Public Voices Fellowship with the OpEd Project.](2015) Tweak the Americans with Disabilities Act again. Huffington Post (Huffpost Impact). [This piece was developed through a Public Voices Fellowship with the OpEd Project.]

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