Upcoming Events

Summer / Fall 08

Incoming Faculty

Ping Li, Pilar Piñar, Janet van Hell

We also have an incoming Postdoc as well as many Incoming Grad. Students

Home / People / Graduate Students

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Cindy Blanco
Graduate Student, Spanish Linguistics
E-mail
Research Interests:
Grammatical gender, phonology, morphology, (first) language acquisition, bilingualism, and cognition.

Geraldine Blattner
Fifth year PhD student and Graduate Assistant, French Department
E-mail
Research Interests:
Sentence processing, second language acquisition, language learning in education abroad, technology in the classroom.

Susan C. Bobb
PhD candidate, Psychology
E-mail
Research Interests:
Bilingualism, word production, second language acquisition.

Cari Bogulski
Graduate Student, Psychology
E-mail
Research Interests:
Bilingualism, second language acquisition, lexical processing, codeswitching

Mona Roxana Botezatu
First Year PhD student, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, language processing, code-switching, the cognitive and cultural aspects of literacy development, rhetoric, discourse analysis.

Joshua R. Brown
Graduate Student, German and Linguistics
E-mail
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, sociology of language, language contact, language and gender/sexuality

Eva María Suárez Büdenbender
PhD Student, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
E-mail
Research Interests:

Carmen Castro
Graduate Student, Spanish Department
Spanish 2 Supervisor and Lecturer
E-mail
Research Interests:

Katie Chapman
Graduate Student, Psychology Department
E-mail
Research Interests:
Comparative cognition, animal behavior, non-human primate social communication and language, and lateralization of function.

Lindsey Corbin
PhD student, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Typical and atypical phonological acquisition in monolinguals and bilinguals, cognitive neuroscience, Indo-European linguistics.

David Counselman
PhD student, Spanish Linguistics
E-mail
Research Interests:
Studying language acquisition and bilingualism from a psycholinguistic perspective.

Megan Dunn Davison
PhD candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Language and literacy development and disorders in preschool-age children with a special interest in diverse, at-risk populations.

Noelle Isenberg
PhD candidate, German Applied Linguistics
E-mail
Research Interests:
Web-based foreign language learning, applied psycholinguistics.

Hiroko Kitajima
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
E-mail
Research Interests:
Experimental phonology, bilingualism/multilingualism, and language contact

Jorge Valdes Kroff
PhD Student, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
E-mail
Research Interests:
Sentence processing, auditory comprehension, psycholinguistics, codeswitching, and perception and production in bilingual populations

Jared Linck
PhD Student, Psychology
E-mail
Research Interests:
Bilingualism, individual differences in L2 acquisition, context of learning, immersion learning, executive functioning/cognitive control and their roles in L2 acquisition and use.

Verónica González López
PhD candidate, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese Department
E-mail
Research Interests:
Cross-language speech perception and production, contact linguistics

Aaron Mitchel
Graduate Student, Psychology
E-mail
Research Interests:
First and second language acquisition, simultaneous bilingualism, bilingual language representation, and the evolution of language.

Myro Joy Olida Lee
Graduate Student, Psychology Department
E-mail
Research Interests:
Language acquisition, bilingualism, comparative communication across humans and primates, chemical/molecular bases of cognition.

Tyler Phelps
Graduate Student, Psychology Department
E-mail
Research Interests:
Lexical and syntactic processing, codeswitching.

Gerard (Trace) Poll
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Developmental language and literacy disorders in adolescents and young adults; relationships between delayed language emergence and language disorders in children; typical first language development.

Susana García Prudencio
Graduate Student and Supervisor of Spanish 3, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
E-mail
Research Interests:
SLA, pedagogy, education and technology.

Shelley Scarpino
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Typical and atypical first and second language phonological acquisition, emerging literacy in children, relationship between vocabulary and phonology

Mike Shelton
PhD Candidate, Hispanic Linguistics
E-mail
Research Interests:
Experimental approaches to phonology, cognitive representation of phonological structure.

Alison (Vargo) Lutz
Graduate Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders
E-mail
Research Interests:
Bilingual Spanish-English phonological acquisition and disorders.