LDC Community News

Summer 2023

• Zohar Naaman (our summer intern from St.John's College) and Chloe Circenis join the lab to work on research on maternal child-directed speech.

Spring 2023

• Norielle Adricula wins a competitive Junior Fellowship at the Centre for Collaborative Research 'Prominence in Language' in Cologne, Germany. 

• Norielle Adricula and Kathryn Conger presented their research at the Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting.

• Conner Moses, our undergraduate student RA, presents his work at the Studio Lab Poster Presentation event.

• Bhuvana Narasimhan and colleagues Rebecca Scarborough (Linguistics) and Allison Hilger (SLHS) awarded a RIO grant to investigate the production and perception of maternal child-directed speech.

Fall 2022

• Welcome to Kanupriya Kale, doctoral student and new lab member.  Welcome also to Conner Moses who is working with us with funding from Studio Lab.

• Norielle Adricula and Kathryn Conger awarded research grants from CARTSS (Center for Research and Training in the Social Sciences).

• Kathryn Conger presented her research on idiom processing at the High Desert Linguistic Society Meeting at the University of New Mexico.

Spring 2022

• Bhuvana, along with a team of undergraduate and graduate students (Rebecca Lee, Kathryn Conger, Sarah Adams, Rebekah Tozier, Emily Reynolds, Landon Helwig),  presented their research on syntactic choice and memory in speakers of English at the Linguistic Society of America Winter Meeting.

Spring/Summer 2021

• Laura Barta defends her thesis "Political moral reasoning: An empirical approach to Lakoff’s moral politics"

• Bhuvana, together with Dr. Jidong Chen (California State University, Fresno) gave an invited talk on "The Influence of Discourse-Pragmatics on Word Order and Argument Realization in Child Language" at Southeast University in China,

Summer 2020

• Bhuvana gave an invited keynote address on "The acquisition of differential casemarking: Evidence from Hindi" at the South Asian Forum for the Acquisition and Processing of Language (SAFAL).

Spring/Summer 2019

• A team of undergraduate and graduate students (Norielle Adricula, Eileen Ford, Jonah Lack, Laura Peterson, Stephanie Quintana, Stefanie Ramos-Bierge, Mara Strother, Laura Temple, and Jayne Williamson-Lee) and Bhuvana will present their research on space-number metaphorical mappings at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) in Baltimore in March.

• Bhuvana and collaborators from CSU-Fresno, University of Münster, and Hongkong Polytechnic University will be presenting their crosslinguistic research on the acquisition of information structure at the 16th International Pragmatics Conference in Hong Kong in June. A second project focusing on information structure in Mandarin-speaking children and adults was presented at the American Psychological Association conference in Washington, D.C. in May.

• Bhuvana and collaborators from the University of Liverpool, IIT-Delhi, and IIIT-Hyderabad will be presenting research on the acquisition of causative constructions at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference in Boulder in March.

Fall 2018

• Norielle Adricula and Megan Pielke present their research on polysemy in English child language at the BU Conference on Language Development.

Summer 2018

• A team consisting of Bhuvana, graduate student Norielle Adricula, undergraduate students Mara Strother and Eileen Ford, and high school intern Youngbin Yoon collect data from children and adults for the "More is Up" project.

• Norielle Adricula and Megan Pielke start their data annotation process for the Prepositional Polysemy project.

• With the help of high school intern Youngbin Yoon, Bhuvana Narasimhan and Norielle Adricula examine the polysemous patterns of the visual perception verbs "look" and "see" in the language used in child-caregiver interactions.

• NYU undergraduate student intern Adam Richman began pilot work on a project on prosody and information structure.

Spring 2018

• Zachary Rosen defends his M.A. thesis titled "Disembodied Entities: Linguistic Factors Determining Semantic Role Assignment of Target Domain Referents in Metaphoric Duals" - congrats Zachary!

• Jayne Williamson-Lee successfully defends her B.A. Honors Thesis “Metaphor to Memory: Effects of Spatiotemporal Metaphors on the Emotional Valence of Autobiographical Memories.” Congratulations, Jayne!

• Norielle Adricula wins a research award from CARTSS - congratulations!

• Bhuvana receives education research grant from the Spencer Foundation Small Grants program! More details here.

Fall 2017

• Lab members and collaborators from other institutions present their research at the BU Conference on Language Development, Yale Workshop on 'Meaning in Flux,' and the Max Planck Institute Workshop on 'Many Paths to Language.'

Summer 2017

• Jayne Williamson-Lee and Norielle Adricula present research at the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) conference in Lyons, France

• Jayne Williamson-Lee wins UROP grant to work on Metaphor and Memory - congratulations!

• Bhuvana was awarded UROP and CARTSS grants to work on numerical language and cognition in children and adults.

• Zachary Rosen and a team of intrepid high school students (Samson Mammarapallil, Jessica Valle-Ruvalcaba, Amy Zhou from CU Science Discovery and Mason Smith) work on vertical spatial-numerical associations (More is Up metaphor) research!

Spring 2017

• Congratulations to Steve Duman who joins the University of Basel in Spring 2017 as Postdoctoral Instructor & Research Fellow at the University of Basel, where he will be conducting postdoctoral research in collaboration with Prof.Heike Behrens. 

• Steve Duman defended his dissertation (The Space-Time Topography of English Speakers) in April and passed with flying colors! Congratulations to Steve and fellow graduates!

Summer/Fall 2016

• High-school students Liza Hafner and Emma Herold (in the CU Science Discovery Program) interned at the LDC Lab in the summer of '16 to investigate grammar and word learning (together with Jill Duffield, Sean Kelly, and Jayne Williamson). 

• Congratulations to Vicky Lai who joins the faculty of the University of Arizona in Fall 2016 as Assistant Professor of Psychology and the Cognitive Sciences!

Summer 2015

• Madison Wagner (Scripps College) and high-school students Saud Alwatban, and Shefali Das (in the CU Science Discovery Program) interned at the LDC Lab over the summer of 2015 to work on research in children's word learning (together with Patricia Davidson, Fanyin Cheng, and Sean Kelly). and metaphor and embodied cognition (together with Steve Duman).

• Steve Duman and Kevin Gould win a $150,000 Small Business and Innovation Research grant from NSF to develop language learning games. Read about it here!

Spring 2014

Mariah Hamang successfully defends her MA thesis on Language Through The Body: The Grounding Of Motor Language Processing.