Teresa Lane

Areas of Special Interest: Helping, building, & strengthening orphanages, schools, and libraries in third world/developing countries; providing books to schools/libraries; helping to improve literacy. General rights and welfare of children. The rights of refugees, immigrants, and indigenous populations -- Help refugees to resettle and acclimate, understand their basic human and civil rights, and learn the skills and language proficiency necessary to thrive and prosper in the United States. The rights of women in third world/developing countries. Ethnography, research and writing in the social sciences. Linguistic anthropology, extinct and endangered languages, language shift, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, semantics, historical linguistics, evolutionary linguistics, language acquisition, linguistic relativism, animal language, writing systems. Primate studies, especially in the area of communication/language; primate welfare & rescue.