Publication

Accent the Positive paper out

The first paper from our Accent the Positive project is out, featuring both Laurie and lab alum Stephanie Martin Vega.

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New publication on bilingual language acquisition

Another publication from the lab – this time on the acquistiion of generic and specific markers in bilingual French-English children. In collaboration with Coralie Herve at the University of Poiters, this work shows interesting effects of bilingual cross-linguistic interference as children work out the subtle differences between article usage in their two languages.

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New publication on Kinyarwanda

Publication alert! L+PLUS Lab members Laurie, Fate and Willem have a new paper out with colleage Kyle Jerro. This paper looks at noun class processing in Kinyarwanda, a Bantu language of Rwanda.

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Publication on aging and syntax processing

Here’s an interesting paper from Laurie and L+PLUS Lab Alum Willem van Boxtel looking at how processing complex syntax, like relative clauses, may or may not change as you age.

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Coming soon

Xiaoduan and Laurie have a chapter coming out soon in a new book: Public Attitudes Towards Gender-Inclusive Language.

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LabPhon special collection

The first article in the Journal of Laboratory Phonology special collection Distanced data collection: Remote data collection and online experimentation is out!

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Publication

Just out: “Testing the Interpretability Hypothesis: Evidence from acceptability judgments of relative clauses by Persian and French learners of L2 English”, a new article from Ehsan and Laurie. Check it out at Second Language Research !

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New publication

Willem and Laurie have a new publication out in Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. Check out syntactic comprehension priming and lexical boost effects in older adults!

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