Affiliated Faculty at Penn State
Affiliated Faculty outside Penn State
Affiliated Post-Doctoral Fellows
Affiliated Faculty at Penn State
Marc Authier
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics: Penn State University
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Formal treatments of natural language, focused on the syntax and semantics of various linguistic phenomena including quantification and anaphora in such languages as English, French, KiNande (Bantu), Mandarin Chinese, Tamil (Dravidian), and Thai. Broader interests include formal logic, mathematical linguistics, and the philosophy of language.
Ronald E. Buckalew
Associate Professor Emeritus of English: Penn State University
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History and Structure of the English Language, Historical Linguistics, Phonology.
Vera Mark
Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics: Penn State University
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French regional languages; language, culture and history; language revival and language death; language and subjectivity
Lisa Reed
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics: Penn State University
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Syntax and semantics, with a particular interest in representations of the interface between these two.
Affiliated Faculty outside Penn State
Teresa Bajo
Full Profesor, Departamento de Psicología Experimental: Universidad de Granada
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Inhibitory processes in Memory. Cognitive Skills in translation and Interpretation, Comprehension processes in translation, Bilingualism.
Ellen Bialystok
Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology: York University, Toronto, Canada
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Research examines studies of cognitive development and cognitive decline across the lifespan with a focus on how these cognitive processes are modified by experience. The primary experience examined is bilingualism, considering how the need to control attention to two languages affects the nature of central cognitive processing. In addition, research considers issues in development, such as the acquisition of literacy for monolingual and bilingual children, and issues in aging, such as cognitive and linguistic dimensions of dementia and Parkinson's disease.
Manuel Carreiras
Facultad de Psicología: Universidad de La Laguna
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Harald Clahsen
Professor of Language and Linguistics: University of Essex
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In addition to acquisition, disorders and processing of language, research interests include theories of morphology and syntax.
Albert Costa
Associate Professor of Psychology: University of Barcelona
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Language Production, bilingualism, attentional control
Ton Dijkstra
Associate Professor, Head of the Division of Psycholinguistics of NICIl: Radboud University Nijmegen
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Research by my group and me has focussed on understanding the word recognition process in monolinguals and bilinguals through behavioral studies, electrophysiological and neuro-imaging studies, and computational modeling. Recently, we have begun to consider bilingual sentence processing in comprehension and production.
Karen Emmorey
Professor, School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences: San Diego State University
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My research focuses on what sign languages can reveal about the nature of human language, cognition, and the brain. My lab studies the processes involved in how deaf people produce and comprehend sign language and how these processes are represented in the brain. We also investigate how experience with a signed language impacts nonlinguistic visual-spatial cognition, such as face processing, memory, and imagery. My research interests include how language modality impacts spatial language (talking about space), the linguistic functions of eye gaze in sign language, and the nature of bimodal bilingualism (ASL-English bilinguals). My investigations of the neural correlates of language and nonlinguistic cognitive functions draw on data from neuroimaging (fMRI and PET) and from patients who have suffered unilateral brain damage.
Anna María Escobar
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics
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Spanish Sociolinguistics and Dialectology, Contact Linguistics and Bilingualism, Language Variation and Change, Grammaticalization and Semantic Change
Tamar H. Gollan
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry: University of California, San Diego
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Processing disadvantages and advantages associated with bilingualism and aging, the joint effects of bilingualism and aging on fluent and failed (e.g. tip-of-the-tongue states) language production.
David Green
Reader in Psychology: University College, London
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Representation and control in bilingual speakers, neural bases of bilingualism, bilingual aphasia.
Carol Myers-Scotton
Emerita Carolina Distinguished Professor: University of South Carolina; Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages: Michigan State University
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Codeswitching, as well as Other Language Contact Phenomena in relation to Morpheme Classification and Language Production, Bilingualism, Socio-Pragmatics.
Cristina Sanz
Associate Professor of Spanish: Georgetown University
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The interaction between external (nature of the input) and internal (cognitive capacity, degree, and type of bilingualism) factors in adult acquisition of non-primary languages. Computer-assisted research on explicitness in the input, in processing, and in knowledge. The role of practice in language acquisition.
Ana I. Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
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Bilingual lexical representation and reading comprehension processes; bilingual emergent literacy and vocabulary acquisition; second language pedagogy and teacher preparation; eye-tracking methodology.
Armin Schwegler
Professor of Spanish Linguistics and Director of Global Cultures: University of California, Irvine
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Afro-Hispanic language and culture, Spanish creoles (esp. Palenquero), Spanish dialectology (Latin America), Black ritual language.
Gretchen Sunderman
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Florida State University
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Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Lexical Processing.
Amy Swanson
PhD Candidate, SIP Department: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Bilingualism, bilingual lexicon, SLA, psycholinguistics.
Natasha Tokowicz
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
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Second language learning, bilingualism.
Janet van Hell
Associate Professor: Radboud University Nijmegen
Visiting Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Penn State
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Language development in children with a typical or atypical language development (children who are deaf, children with dyslexia, with SLI, and bilingual children from an ethnic minority background), Second language learning and bilingualism/multilingualism.
Virginia Valian
Distinguished Professor, Psychology and Linguistics: Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
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Current research in my laboratory investigates two-year-olds' knowledge and use of language, second language learners' performance on similar tasks, native speakers' performance on similar sentences with different tasks, the role of input in syntax acquisition, gender differences in mathematics problem-solving. We are also investigating what interventions work best in improving gender equity in different types of organizations.
Affiliated Post-Doctoral Fellows
Ingrid Christoffels
Research Fellow: Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition and Department of Psychology: Leiden University
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My research interest concern neurocognitive and experimental approaches to language, executive functioning, cognitive control, and individual differences, using fMRI, EEG and behavioral measures. Currently, my research is focused on control in language production, multilingualism & translation processes.
Anat Prior
Post-Doctoral Research Associate: Carnegie Mellon University
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I am interested in within and cross-language semantic conceptual representation. I study semantic, episodic and associative links in the lexicon; determiners of bilingual conceptual representation; factors influencing translation choice in behavioral tasks and in large language corpora; the implications of grammatical class for meaning representation and bilingual performance; cognitive consequences of early bilingualism.
Mikel Santesteban Insausti
Research Fellow: University of Edinburgh
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My main research interest is bilingualism from cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective. I am currently investigating cognitive processes underlying second language use as well as the enhancement of the executive functions in bilingual populations.
Zofia Wodniecka
Postdoctoral Fellow: York University and Rotman Research Institute
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My main research interest is bilingualism from cognitive and psycholinguistic perspective. I am currently investigating cognitive processes underlying second language use as well as the enhancement of the executive functions in bilingual populations.