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Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab
Fields: Bilingual autobiographical memory; cognitive anthropology and cognitive aging; language and medicine
Faculty: Robert Schrauf
The Applied Linguistics and Health Sciences Lab conducts both experimental and qualitative/ethnographic research on the following topics: (a) experimental: bilingual autobiographical memory and emotion, retrieval mechanisms in bilingual autobiographical memory, (b) qualitative/ethnographic: cognitive anthropology and aging, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Alzheimer's disease, health literacy, medical interpreting in clinical contexts, cultural contexts of cognitive aging.
Eye-tracking Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Processing, Linguistics
Faculty: Giuli Dussias
Graduate Students: Tracy Cramer Scaltz,
David Counselman ,
Rosa E. Guzzardo ,
Jorge Valdés Kroff
The Child Language Development Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Carol Miller
Graduate Students: Gerard (Trace) Poll
The Child Language Development Laboratory is equipped to collect high-quality analog and digital audio and video recordings. Necessary computer hardware and software is available for digitizing and editing audio as well as video. Several powerful statistical analysis software packages are used to meet a wide variety of research needs. Software for the analysis of language transcripts is also available. The lab is equipped with a number of instruments for assessment of language and cognition, and hardware and software for conducting computer-based experiments.
The Comparative Communication Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Dan Weiss
Graduate Students: Aaron Mitchel, Myro Joy Olida Lee, Katie Chapman
One of the main goals of the Comparative Communication Laboratory is the study of the mechanisms underlying language acquisition. These include statistical learning mechanisms that have been implicated in the early acquisition of phonetic categories and word boundaries, rule learning, and generalization of learning. Our approach compares the performance of human infants and adults, as well as nonhuman primates (hereafter primates) on a variety of behavioral tasks in order to identify the underlying similarities and differences both between species and within humans across stages of development. In addition, we are interested in studying select topics pertaining to cognition and conspecific communication in primates.
Second Language Acquisition Group
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Nuria Sagarra
Second Language Processing Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Carrie Jackson
Students: Ted McMillan
The primary goal of the Second Language Processing Laboratory is to investigate how adult second language learners utilize grammatical and semantic information when comprehending and producing words and sentences in their non-native language. How individual learner variables, such as proficiency and working memory, may influence L2 speakers’ processing strategies is also of crucial interest. To that end, the lab contains computers and the necessary software for experimental testing, as well as laptop computers to facilitate off-site data collection.
The Language and Cognition Laboratory (The Purple Lab)
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Judith F. Kroll
Research Coordinators: Angelique Blackburn, Jason Gullifer, Rachel Johnson, Marck Minnick
Graduate Students: Susan Bobb, Jared Linck, Tyler Phelps, Cari Bogulski
The Language Development in Diverse Contexts Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Carol Scheffner Hammer
Graduate Students: Megan Dunn Davison, Roxana Botezatu
The Language Development in Diverse Contexts Laboratory houses video- and audio-taping equipment for collecting language samples and for studying interactions between caregivers and their children. It also contains computer stations equipped with transcription machines for analyzing data. SALT, a computer software program that is useful in the study of child language, OCS, a computer program used to analyze parent-child interactions, and software to analyze qualitative data are available in the lab. The laboratory functions as a site for investigating the language and literacy development of bilingual Hispanic children, African American children, and children with SLI, and for studying parental beliefs and parent-child interactions.
The Child Phonology Laboratory
Fields: Second Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Adele Miccio
Graduate Students: Lindsey Corbin, Shelly Scarpino, Alison Vargo
Undergraduate Students: Alexis Rabine, Anne Rohan
The Child Phonology Laboratory houses facilities for studying speech sound production in children. The laboratory contains seven computer workstations and additional hardware and software for transcription and analysis of speech samples from audio and video. The laboratory also houses software for advanced training in clinical phonetics and phonology. Current projects focus on assessing phonological development, emerging literacy skills of bilingual children, and treatment efficacy. Both undergraduate and graduate students are involved in laboratory activities.
Chip's Phonology Laboratory
Fields: Linguistics
Faculty: Chip Gerfen
Graduate Students: Matthew T. Carlson, Mike Shelton
The Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Atypical Populations
Faculty: Maya Misra
Research coordinator: Joyce Tam
Graduate students: Alice Kramer and Kristen Mettley
Undergraduate students: Doreen DiGangi, Beth Friedman, Liz Willis, and Bridgid Zvirblis
The Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory uses converging behavioral and neuroscience methods to study the processes underlying the development of speech and reading. This laboratory houses a 64-channel EEG/ERP system as well as facilities for cognitive behavioral testing and administration of standardized tests. Research in the laboratory focuses on neurocognitive correlates of language processing, emphasizing component skills in reading, automaticity of orthographic and phonological processing, subtypes of developmental dyslexia, and language selection mechanisms used by bilingual speakers.
The Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory
Fields: Atypical Populations
Faculty: Elina Mainela-Arnold
The Language and Cognitive Development Laboratory studies cognitive underpinnings of language development and its disorders. It is currently being designed to contain state of the art digital audio and video equipment as well as hardware and software for running computerized experiments. Computer work stations will be equipped for analyzing and editing audio and video recordings, and performing a variety of statistical analysis. A complete selection of testing instruments for assessment of language and cognition will be available.