Congratulations to Dr. Ratree Wayland, whose edited volume “Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress” was just published by Cambridge University Press. Included in the volume are two co-authored chapters by Ratree and her co-authors Drs.Takeshi Nozawa, Lucrecia Rallo Fabra, Xialin Liu, and Si Chen. Link to the volume can be found here.
Congratulations to Dr. Edith Kaan, undergraduate students Ivette De Aguiar and Christian Clarke, and their co-authors, whose article, “A transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation study on verbal order memory” was just published in the most recent volume of the Journal of Neurolinguistics. Link to the article is here. Abstract is below. Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) is a […]
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This semester, we are starting a new spotlight series highlighting the accomplishments of our faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and alumni. For our first faculty spotlight, we are highlighting Assistant Professor Dr. Kevin Tang. Dr. Tang joined our department in the Fall of 2019 and is one of the directors of our Speech, Lexicon, and […]
Congratulations to Dr. Kevin Tang and his co-author Dr. Jason Shaw (Yale University), whose article titled, “Prosody leaks into the memories of words” was recently published online as an advanced article in Cognition. The link to the article is here and the abstract is below. The average predictability (aka informativity) of a word in context has […]
Congratulations to former PhD student Dr. Weihua Zhu (Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Professor Dr. Diana Boxer, whose article titled, “Turn-Taking and Disagreement: A Comparison of American English and Mandarin Chinese” was recently published online as an advanced article in Contrastive Pragmatics. The link to the article is here and the abstract is […]
Congratulations to our own Dr. Stefanie Wulff, whose handbook chapter, titled, “Usage-based Approaches” was just published in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Corpora. Link to the book is here.
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Congratulations to our own postdoc Dr. Souad Kheder and professor Dr. Edith Kaan, whose article “Cognitive Control in Bilinguals: Proficiency and Code-switching Both Matter” was recently published online ahead of print in Cognition. The link to the article is here. The abstract is below. We examined the impact of bilingualism as a construct of both language […]
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Congratulations to our own Dr. James Garner, whose article titled, “The cross-sectional development of verb–noun collocations as constructions in L2 writing” was just published online ahead of print in the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. Link to the article is here. Abstract is below. “Previous studies utilizing association measures for collocation analysis have […]
The special issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics and TEFL, titled, “Sociocultural Theory in Teacher Education and Development”, was recently published, and our own Dr. Paula Golombek served as special Guest Editor. Congratulations to Dr. Golombek! Link to the issue is here.
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Congratulations to our own Dr. Aaron Broadwell, whose co-authored paper, titled, “Ticha: Collaboration with Indigenous communities to build digital resources on Zapotec language and history” was just published in the most recent issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly. His co-authors include Moisés García Guzmán (pueblo of San Jerónimo Tlacochahuaya, Brook Danielle Lillehaugen (Haverford College), Felipe H. Lopez (Haverford […]
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