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The Comparative Communication Laboratory
Fields: First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Dan Weiss
Graduate Students: Aaron Mitchel, Katie Chapman
One of the main goals of the Comparative Communication Laboratory is the study of the mechanisms underlying language acquisition. These include statistical learning mechanisms that have been implicated in the early acquisition of phonetic categories and word boundaries, rule learning, and generalization of learning. Our approach compares the performance of human infants and adults, as well as nonhuman primates (hereafter primates) on a variety of behavioral tasks in order to identify the underlying similarities and differences both between species and within humans across stages of development. In addition, we are interested in studying select topics pertaining to cognition and conspecific communication in primates.
The Language and Cognition Laboratory (The Purple Lab)
Fields: Second Language Acquisition
Faculty: Judith F. Kroll
Research Coordinators: Jason Gullifer, Marck Minnick, Joyce Tam
Graduate Students: Cari Bogulski, Rhonda McClain