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CLS Alumni Speaker Series

CLS Alumni Speaker Series

CLS Anniversary Alumni Speaker Series – Roxana Botezatu (University of Missouri) Converging Evidence from Bilingualism and Aphasia Reveals a Link Between Lexical Selection in Comprehension and Production

Converging Evidence from Bilingualism and Aphasia Reveals a Link Between Lexical Selection in Comprehension and Production Bilingualism and aphasia have been traditionally employed as separate platforms for investigating the cognitive mechanisms underlying language production and comprehension. In the present study we take an innovative approach to analyze spoken word recognition as a function of production

CLS Anniversary Alumni Speaker Series – Josh Brown (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire) Multilingualism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania

Multilingualism in Nineteenth Century Pennsylvania  Historical language contact and multilingualism contribute both to sociolinguistic identities and to language ideologies. For the early Pennsylvania Dutch, the distance from their European homeland and the adoption of American regional identities created and resulted in a shift in linguistic hegemony. Knowledge of European German, which held literary and educational

CLS Anniversary Alumni Speaker Series – Amelia Dietrich (The Forum on Education Abroad) Beyond Language Science: Skills for Transitioning Out of the Academy

Beyond Language Science:  Skills for Transitioning Out of the Academy After finishing a Ph.D. in Spanish and Language Science in 2014, Amelia J. Dietrich was awarded the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellowship to work at non-profit, membership organization The Forum on Education Abroad. As Associate Director for Programs and Resources, she edits the academic journal Frontiers: The