November 16-19, 2023
Keep an eye out @ 2023 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA!!
Rachel and Kyle will be presenting posters!!
February 2024
Iva will give an invited talk at the Department of Language Sciences colloquium series at University of California Irvine in February 2024!!
August 31-Sept 2, 2023
Strong LCL presence this year - three posters by LCL graduate students!
"The role of attention for alignment to discourse particles" by Rachel Williams, Diana Salcido-Padilla, Kyle Wolff, and Iva Ivanova
"When does alignment make speaking easier for bilinguals?" by Diana Uribe, Anahy Barragan-Diaz, Ivanna Delgado, and Iva Ivanova
"Language control over structural representations" by Anahy Barragan-Diaz and Iva Ivanova
October 14-15, 2022
Five posters were presented in person @ ARMADILLO by LCL and colleagues!
"The role of attention for entrainment: Evidence from discourse particles" by Rachel Williams, Diana Salcido-Padilla, Kyle Wolff, and Iva Ivanova
"When does alignment make speaking easier for bilinguals?" by Diana Uribe, Ivanna Delgado, Anahy Barragan-Diaz, and Iva Ivanova
"The U.S.A. and its Spanish-English code-switching; the case study of diminutives" by Anavictoria Dominguez, Margot Vanhaverbeke, Iva Ivanova, and Renata Enghels
"The Role of Working Memory for Syntactic Formulation in Bilinguals" by Josue Lopez Tapia, Eric Martell, and Iva Ivanova
"Exploring the Adaptability of the Bilingual Mind" by Christian Ruiz-Ortiz and Ashley S. Bangert
Josue was awarded Best Undergraduate Poster Travel Award– sponsored by Texas A&M University – San Antonio's Psychology Program. Great work and congratulations, Josue!!!
August 2022
Undergraduate Kyle Wolff gave a talk at the 4th International Symposium on Bilingual and L2 Processing in Adults in Children in Tromsø, Norway!!
His talk was entitled "Bilingual language control in connected speech". Fantastic work, Kyle!
Bilingual language control in connected speech by Kyle Wolff and Iva Ivanova
August 2022
Diana was awarded a 32-week funded research assistantship to work with graduate student mentor Rachel Williams and faculty mentor Iva Ivanova on "Entrainment from Discourse Particles".
Way to go Diana!!
May 2022
Iva gave an invited talk online in the Aurora Center for Language Acquisition, Variation & Attrition colloquium series at the Arctic University of Norway!!
May 2022
Iva gave an invited talk at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, SLATE Symposium in Champaign, Illinois!!
February 2022
Iva gave an invited talk online in the Psycholinguistics Coffee series at the University of Edinburgh!!
November 18-20, 2021
September 25, 2021
How does speaking one language and then another affect speech quality by Iva Ivanova and Kyle Wolff
September 20, 2021
September 2021
Abstract
This study asks if monolinguals can resolve lexical interference within a language with mechanisms similar to those used by bilinguals to resolve interference across languages. These mechanisms are known as bilingual language control, are assumed to be at least in part top-down, and are typically studied with cued language mixing, a version of which we use here. Balanced (Experiment 1) and nonbalanced Spanish-English bilinguals (Experiment 2) named pictures in each of their languages. English monolinguals from two different American cities (Experiments 3 and 4) named pictures in English only with either basic-level (e.g., shoe) or subordinate names (e.g., sneaker). All experiments were identically structured and began with blocked naming in each language or name type, followed by trial-level switching between the two languages or name types, followed again by blocked naming. We analyzed switching, mixing and (introduced here) post-mixing costs, dominance effects and repetition benefits. In the bilingual experiments, we found some signs of dominant deprioritization, the behavioral hallmark of bilingual language control: larger costs for dominant- than for nondominant-language names. Crucially, in the monolingual experiments, we also found signs of dominant deprioritization: larger costs for basic-level than for subordinate names. Unexpectedly and only in the monolingual experiments, we also found a complete dominance reversal: Basic-level names (which otherwise behaved as dominant) were produced more slowly overall than subordinate names. Taken together, these results are hard to explain with the bottom-up mechanisms typically assumed for monolingual interference resolution. We thus conclude that top-down mechanisms might (sometimes) be involved in lexical interference resolution not only between languages but also within a language.
Ivanova, I. & Hernandez, D. C. (2021). Within-language lexical interference can be resolved in a similar way to between-language interference. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104760
September 03, 2021
The role of working memory for syntactic formulation in language production by Eric Martell and Iva Ivanova
Bilinguals' referential choice under time pressure by Carla Contemori and Iva Ivanova
July 10, 2021
Bilingual Inhibitory Control in Connected Speech by Kyle Wolff and Iva Ivanova
June 2021
Minding the Brain is a podcast hosted by Dr. Jim Davies and Dr. Kim Hellemans that explores interesting topics surrounding scientific study of the brain.
May 19, 2021
Bilinguals' referential choice under time pressure by Carla Contemori and Iva Ivanova
May 05, 2021
Bilingual Language Control of Structural Representation by Andrea Seañez, Alejandra Fanith, and Iva Ivanova
April 2021
Congratulations Oscar!! We will miss you!
April 29, 2021
April 22, 2021
Congratulations Iva!!
March 13, 2021
Congratulations Diana!! We will miss you!
March 05, 2021
Bilingual Language Control of Structural Representation by Andrea Seañez, Alejandra Fanith, and Iva Ivanova
Bilingual Inhibitory Control in Connective Speech by Kyle Wolff and Iva Ivanova
February 5, 2021
Check out the recorded talk below!!
October 02-03, 2020
Structural Alignment to Non-native Accented Speech by Rachel Williams, Karly Schleicher, and Iva Ivanova
Bilingual Inhibitory Control in Connective Speech by Kyle Wolff and Iva Ivanova
September 03, 2020
Speech Prosody Across Language Backgrounds by Eduardo Hernandez, Kristen Tooley, and Iva Ivanova
Bilingual Language Control of Structural Representation by Andrea Seañez and Iva Ivanova
Structural Alignment to Non-native Accented Speech by Rachel Williams, Karly Schleicher, and Iva Ivanova
Bilingual Inhibitory Control in Connective Speech by Kyle Wolff and Iva Ivanova
August 17, 2020
This is a 32-week funded research assistantship.
September 01, 2020
See a project description here.
June 2020
This program will prepare Alan as an educator, and will specifically focus on addressing the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs). While also focusing on societal and cultural influences.
August 24, 2019 - June, 2020
This is a 32-week funded research assistantship. Diana was awarded the best poster award in the Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences category at the UTEP COURI Undergraduate Research Symposium.
March 2020
Martell, E., Diaz, R., Favela, G., & Ivanova, I. The role of working memory for syntactic formulation in language production.
Williams, R., Schleicher, K., & Ivanova I. Structural alignment to non-native speech.
February 9, 2020
Contemori, C. & Ivanova, I. (in press). Bilingual referential choice in cognitively demanding situations. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. doi:10.1017/S1366728920000176
November 2019
Ivanova, I., Seañez, A., & Cochran, M. The timing of bilingual inhibitory control.
Williams, R., Schleicher, K., & Ivanova, I. Structural alignment to non-native speech.
September 26, 2019
Declerck, M., Ivanova,I., Grainger, J., & Duñabeitia, J.A. (2020). Are similar control processes implemented during single and dual language production? Evidence from switching between speech registers and languages. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.
September 6, 2019
Ivanova, I., Horton, W. S., Swets, B., Kleinman, D., & Ferreira, V.S. (in press). Structural alignment in dialogue and monologue (and what attention may have to do with it). Journal of Memory and Language.
September 6, 2019
Iva will be presenting a talk and Rachel will be presenting a poster!
Ivanova, I. Timing of application of bilingual inhibitory control.
Williams, R., Schleicher, K., & Ivanova, I. Structural Alignment to Nonnative Speech.
August 22, 2019
Ivanova, I. Bilingual language processing and communication: What happens in the mind when bilinguals talk.
August 3, 2019
Martel, E., & Ivanova, I. The role of working memory on syntactic formulation in bilinguals.
June 1, 2019
Ivanova, I. The cognitive challenges of speaking two languages.
May 30, 2019
Iva will be presenting a talk and a poster!
Ivanova, I., Hernandez, D., & Atiya, A. Lexical alignment in the two languages of bilinguals
Ivanova, I. Timing of application of bilingual inhibitory control
April 20, 2019
October 26, 2018
September 25, 2018
Abstract
Four picture-description experiments investigated if syntactic formulation in language production can proceed with only minimal working memory involvement. Experiments 1-3 compared the initiation latencies, utterance durations and errors for syntactically simpler picture descriptions (adjective-noun phrases, e.g., the red book) to those of more complex descriptions (relative clauses, e.g., the book that is red). In Experiment 4, the syntactically more complex descriptions were also lexically more complex (e.g., the book and the carvs. the book). Simpler and more complex descriptions were produced under verbal memory load consisting of two or four unrelated nouns, or under no load. Across experiments, load actually made production more efficient (as manifested in shorter latencies, shorter durations or both), and sped up the durations of relative clauses more than those of adjective-noun phrases. The only evidence for disproportional disruptionof more complex descriptions by load was a greater increase of production errors for these descriptions than for simpler descriptions under load in Experiments 2 and 4. We thus conclude that syntactic formulation in production (for certain constructions or in certain situations) can proceed with minimal working memory involvement.
August 5, 2018
September 6-8, 2018
Ivanova, I. Bilingual – and monolingual? – language control.
Contemori, C., & Ivanova, I. Bilingual referential choice in cognitively demanding situations.
July 2-4, 2018
Ivanova, I. Bilingual – and monolingual? – language control.
Contemori, C., & Ivanova, I. Bilingual referential choice in cognitively demanding situations.
June 15-16, 2018
May 12, 2018
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Elizabeth
Joseph
April 21, 2018
Atiya, A., Hernandez, D.C., Anchondo, A., & Ivanova, I. Lexical alignment in the dominant and non-dominant languages of bilinguals.
April 6, 2018
March 29-April 13, 2018
March 15-17, 2018
Contemori, C., & Ivanova, I. Bilingual referential choice in cognitively demanding situations.
March 1-3, 2018
November 9-12, 2017
Ivanova, I. Control of word activation within and between languages. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic society, Vancouver, Canada, November 2017.
With Danbi Ahn (UCSD)
The conference center
The conference center
October 13-14, 2017
Atiya, A., Hernandez, D.C., Anchondo, A., & Ivanova, I. Lexical alignment in the dominant and non-dominant languages of bilinguals. ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference, College Station (TX), October 2017.
March 30-April 1, 2017
Ivanova, I., & Ferreira, V.S. Is syntactic processing in language production automatic? 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Boston (MA), March 2017.
November 17-20, 2016
Ivanova, I. Monolingual language control mechanisms. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic society, Boston (MA), November 2016.
September 30-October 1, 2016
Ivanova, I., Ferreira, V.S., & Gollan, T.H. Form overrides meaning when bilinguals monitor for errors. ARMADILLO: The Southwest Cognition Conference, El Paso (TX), September-October 2016.
August 3, 2016
Heart-warming farewell from UCSD
With Eva Wittenberg and Rachel Ostrand
With postdoc mentors Vic Ferreira and Tami Gollan
UTEP Psychology