Lab Affiliation: The Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory

Research Interests:

Cognitive mechanisms involved in language acquisition, the way in which these mechanisms interact with environmental language input, and how this interaction can be used to explain individual differences in language ability. Children with specific language impairment (SLI).

Recent Publications:

Mainela-Arnold, E., Evans, J., & Coady, J. (2008) Lexical representations in children with SLI: Evidence from a frequency manipulated gating task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 51, 381-393.

Tomblin, J.B, Mainela-Arnold, E., & Zhang, X. (2007) Procedural learning in adolescents with and without specific language impairment. Child Language Learning and Development, 3, 269-293.

Coady, J., Evans, J., Mainela-Arnold, E. & Klunder, K. (2007). Children with specific language impairments perceive speech most categorically when tokens are natural and meaningful. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 41-57.

Mainela-Arnold, E., Evans, J. & Alibali, M. (2006.) Understanding conservation delays in children with SLI: Task representations revealed in speech and gesture. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 49, 1267-1279.

Mainela-Arnold, E. & Evans, J. (2005). Beyond capacity limitations: Determinants of word recall performance on verbal working memory span tasks in children with SLI. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 48, 897-909.