Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Scientific Speed Dating
Please join us on for Scientific Speed Dating for CLS faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and visitors. We will follow the format of previous speed-dating events. This is a great opportunity to discuss your research and ideas, and to connect with fellow CLS members and be mutually inspired. We hope to see you there!
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Elizabeth Schotter
Humans read incredibly quickly, fixating a word for only a quarter of a second before moving their eyes. But neural data suggests it takes two–four times longer than a single fixation to fully recognize and interpret a word in context, raising the question, “how can the eyes be faster than the brain” (Rayner & Clifton,
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Victoria Cano Sánchez
Recent research in psycholinguistics has largely focused on adults under thirty, often assuming that language abilities remain stable after acquisition, a view now challenged by emerging evidence (Griffin and Spieler, 2005). This research addresses that gap by investigating how healthy aging affects language comprehension in Spanish, with a particular focus on predictive processing and agreement
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Faranak Kianfar
Aphasia, often marked by anomia, affects communication, especially when abstract words are impaired. Abstract words form a large portion of everyday vocabulary; their loss significantly affects expression and comprehension. Most anomia therapies emphasize concrete words, but the Abstract Semantic Associative Network Training (AbSANT) approach targets abstract words and promotes generalization to concrete ones. Its bilingual
Young Language Science Scholar: Anne L. Beatty-Martínez
“Bilingualism Reveals How Experience Shapes Language and the Brain” Variation in language experience plays an important role in our understanding of language learning and processing. Increasing evidence suggests that the ways in which bilinguals use their languages with different people and across distinct interactional contexts may contribute to observed variability in processing trajectories and outcomes.
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Hiram Smith
For our generation, what [Black people] did is we took the word [nigga] and we took the power out of that word. [We] turned a word that was very ugly and hurtful into a term of endearment. — Jay-Z, The Oprah Winfrey Show (Sept. 24, 2009) A widely held belief is that nigga has been
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Rachel Showstack
“Alce su Voz” (‘Speak Out’) is a community-engaged program housed within Wichita State University’s modern language department that strives to improve health equity for individuals with non-English language preference (NELP). The program emerged from a series of Spanish-language community meetings that Rachel Showstack and her students facilitated in Wichita, Kansas in early 2020 to explore
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Mackenzie Gentz
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: John Lipski
In the Afro-Colombian village of San Basilio de Palenque, there are ongoing efforts to revitalize the traditional Spanish-lexified creole language Palenquero. Currently, some instruction in Palenquero is part of the school curriculum, but with few exceptions, there is no grammatical description, no contrasting with Spanish, no emphasis on actual communication and no corrective feedback loop
Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Michael Putnam
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Center for Language Science Speaker Series: Chaleece Sandberg
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Dr. Manuel Pulido (SIP, Penn State)
Manuel F. Pulido, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Penn State Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese “From Collocations to Constructions: Exploring Generalization During L1 and L2 Processing” Friday, October 27 9:00–10:30 a.m. EDT Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library Speakers constantly innovate in their use of language. However, linguistic innovation is not generated in a vacuum, but is