Assistant Professor David Quinto Pozos

Assistant Professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Science

Dr. Quinto-Pozos' areas of interest include the language and culture of Deaf communities—both in the United States and in Latin America. In addition to his research and teaching, Professor Quinto-Pozos is involved in the field of sign language interpretation. A current project includes serving as a content expert for the development of a trilingual (English-Spanish-American Sign Language) certification exam for sign language interpreters. The test is being developed by the University of Arizona's National Center for Interpretation. His research focuses primarily on linguistic phenomena in American Sign Language and Mexican Sign Language.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Linguistics University of Texas at Austin, 2002

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Meier, Richard P., Kearsy Cormier, & David Quinto-Pozos, eds. (2002). Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Quinto-Pozos, David (2002). Deixis in the visual/gestural and tactile/gestural modalities. In Modality and Structure in Signed and Spoken Languages. Eds. Richard P. Meier, Kearsy Cormier, & David Quinto-Pozos. 442-467. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Quinto-Pozos, David (2002). Interpreting for foreign language courses: The case of Spanish. Journal of Interpretation. 93-110.
• Quinto-Pozos, David (2005). Factors that influence the acquisition of ASL for interpreting students. In Sign language interpreting and interpreter education: Directions for research and practice. Eds. Marc Marschark, Rico Peterson, and Elizabeth A. Winston. pp. 159-187. New York: Oxford University Press.