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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.
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 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.
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.