Lauren Covey
Assistant Professor,
Montclair State University
1 Normal Ave, Schmitt HallMontclair, NJ 07043email: COVEYL at montclair.edu I joined the faculty at Montclair State University in Fall 2018 in the Linguistics Department, where I co-run the Experimental Linguistics Laboratory and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in linguistics and cognitive science.
My research examines sentence processing in both native speakers and adult second language (L2) learners, with a focus on the processing of long-distance syntactic dependencies. I use psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods to investigate language processing, including electroencephalography (EEG). Since coming to Montclair, I have begun a related strand of research focusing on bilingual processing to build on the strengths of our diverse multilingual student population. This research is in line with my interests in individual variability in language processing, with my new work aiming to understand the relative contribution of cognitive resources such as memory, attention, and chunking abilities to language comprehension
Recent News & Updates
Covey Lab cohort of LNGN 450: Research in Linguistics (SP24) during their final presentation of their project, "Metaphor in Bilinguals"
Francisco Villa (B.A. 2024) presented at the 2024 Student Research Symposium: "Developing 240 Spanish Word Pair Stimuli for a Psycholinguistics Experiment"
LSA 2024 presentation co-authored with Ranjeeta Mahraj (M.A. 2023): "Receptive Language Switching Costs in Urdu-English Bilinguals: A Partial Replication Study"
Faculty with undergraduate students at Spring 2024 graduation
Kya Wright (B.A. 2023) and Savannah Mitchell (B.A. 2024) presented at the Student Research Symposium in April 2023: "The relationship between language proficiency and memory performance in Spanish-English bilinguals."
Master's candidates defended their captone projects and graduated in May 2023. Congratulations, grads!
Emily Brennan (B.A. Linguistics & German, 2023) received the CHSS Dean's Award for her exceptional performance in the linguistics major.
As part of the Spring 2023 Teaching and Learning Showcase, Jonathan Howell, Sheyla Feratoska (B.A. Linguistics, 2023), and Lauren Covey presented a workshop titled, "More testing, lower stakes: Why your students will thank you for incorporating retrieval practice."