Research
Our hope is that researchers, pedagogues, and policy makers can work together to discover the mechanisms underlying the language faculty and human behavior, apply them to the classroom, and implement changes in education programs that benefit a diverse and growing bi-and multilingual population. We accept new undergraduate and graduate students looking to study multilingualism, and we look forward to continuing an intellectually stimulating environment that ultimately holds practical value for our members.
Topics explored in the lab Heading link
- What effect does first language attrition have on the derivation of scalar implicatures?
- What is the source of transfer at the initial stages of additive multilingualism?
- How does person markedness affect agreement for native and non-native speakers?
- Gender attraction in native Spanish processing
- What counts as evidence in modern second language acquisition?
- How does input/exposure affect the acquisition of aspect in second language Spanish?
- What factors contribute to the Foreign Language Effect in bilingualism?
- How does bilingualism affect offense taking?
- Is retrodiction a reliable way of hypothesis testing in the language sciences?
- Can event-related potentials help us understand how determiner-number specification impacts native and non-native processing?
- What can the processing of referential ambiguity say about anaphora comprehension?
- Language in the context of social intentions.