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Natasha Tokowicz
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and Research, University of Pittsburgh
Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
3939 O'Hara St.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260-5169 USA
Phone: (814) 865-1122
Fax: (814)-863-3759
E-mail: Tokowicz@pitt.edu
Lab Affiliation: PsychoLinguistic Underpinnings of Multilingualism (PLUM) Lab
Research Interests:
Second language learning, bilingualism.
Recent Publications:
Tokowicz, N., & Kroll, J. F. (in press). Number of meanings and concreteness: Consequences of ambiguity within and across languages. Language and Cognitive Processes.
Tokowicz, N. & Warren, T. (in press). Quantification and statistics in the study of bilingualism. To appear in L. Wei & M. Moyer (Eds.), The Blackwell guide to research methods in bilingualism. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2005). Models of bilingual representation and processing: Looking back and to the future. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 531-553). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tokowicz, N., & MacWhinney, B. (2005). Implicit and explicit measures of sensitivity to violations in second language grammar: An event-related potential investigation. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27, 173-204.
Tokowicz, N., & Perfetti, C. A. (2005). Introduction to part II: Comprehension. In J. F. Kroll & A. M. B. De Groot (Eds.), Handbook of bilingualism: Psycholinguistic approaches (pp. 173-177). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tokowicz, N., Michael, E. B., & Kroll, J. F. (2004). The roles of study-abroad experience and working-memory capacity in the types of errors made during translation. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 7, 255-272.
Kroll, J. F., Michael, E., Tokowicz, N., & Dufour, R. (2002). The development of lexical fluency in a second language. Second Language Research, 18, 137-171.
Tokowicz, N., Kroll, J. F., De Groot, A. M. B., & Van Hell, J. G. (2002). Number-of-translation norms for Dutch-English translation pairs: A new tool for examining language production. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 34, 435-451.
Kroll, J. F., & Tokowicz, N. (2001). The development of conceptual representation for words in a second language. In J. L. Nicol (Ed.), One mind, two languages: Bilingual language processing (pp. 49-71). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.