Research

Grants

External Awards:

• National Science Foundation BCS Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #1728019: An ERP Investigation of Individual Differences in the Processing of Wh- Dependencies by Native and Non-Native Speakers ($18,171); Co-PI with Alison Gabriele and Robert Fiorentino

• William Orr Dingwall Foundation 2017 Dissertation Fellowship in the Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Foundations of Language ($30,000)

• Language Learning Dissertation Grant ($1,980)

Internal Awards, Montclair State University:

• Separately Budged Research, FY24, Office of the Provost ($4,500); A tale of two hemispheres: The role of literacy in bilingual metaphor processing

• Student Research Funding, Summer 2023, College of Humanities and Social Sciences ($1,440)

• Student Faculty Scholarship, FY23, Office of the Provost ($2,000); Real-time language comprehension in second language learners of Spanish

• Summer Grant Proposal Development, FY23, Office of the Provost ($4,000); Disentangling the cognitive mechanisms that underlie comprehension of a second language

Publications

• Luque, A. & Covey, L. (In Press). Factors accounting for individual differences in L2 neurocognition. In K. Morgan-Short & J. van Hell (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Neurolinguistics. Routledge.

• Covey, L. & *Mikheeva, A. (2023). Cognate effects during speech production in Russian-English-German trilinguals. In P. Gappmayr & J. Kellogg (Eds.), Proceedings of the 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development, 187-199. Cascadilla Press.

• Covey, L. & Gabriele, A. (2023). Collecting and analyzing L2 psycholinguistic data. In A. Mackey & S. Gass (Eds.). Current Approaches in Second Language Acquisition Research: A Practical Guide (pp. 170-194). Wiley-Blackwell.

• Ghanim, I., Wambacq, I., & Covey, L. (2022). Contribution of semantic context to bilingual processing. International Journal of Bilingualism. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069221139384 

• Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., & Gabriele, A. (2022). Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02676583221116039 

• Aldosari, S., Covey, L., & Gabriele, A. (2022). Examining the source of island effects in native speakers and second language learners of English. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F02676583221099243 

• Gabriele, A., Alemán-Bañón, J., Hoffman, L., Covey, L., Rossomondo, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2021). Examining variability in the processing of agreement in novice learners: Evidence from event-related potentials. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(7), 1106–1140. https://doi.apa.org/doi/10.1037/xlm0000983 

• **Pham, C., Covey, L., Gabriele, A., Aldosari, S., & Fiorentino, R. (2020). Investigating the relationship between individual differences and island sensitivity. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 5(1): 94. 1–17. https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.1199 

• Feroce, N., Fiorentino, R., Covey, L., & Gabriele, A. (2020). Neural evidence for the processing of referential ambiguity and referential failure in Spanish. In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (Eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 153-174. John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/ihll.27.07fer

• Covey, L., Coughlin, C., & Minai, U. (2018). An eye-tracking study examining the role of question-answer congruency in children’s comprehension of only: A preliminary report. Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 39: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.26856

• Fiorentino, R., Covey, L., & Gabriele, A. (2018). Individual differences in the processing of referential dependencies in English. Neuroscience Letters, 673: 79-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.02.014

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2018). Can learners use morphosyntactic cues to facilitate processing? Evidence from a study of gender agreement in Hindi. Language Acquisition, 3: 327-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2017.1359272

• Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., & Covey, L. (2017). Understanding the symptoms and sources of variability in second language sentence processing (commentary). Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 20(4), 685-686. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000961

• Renaud, C. & Covey, L. (2014). Sensitivity to gender agreement in second language Hindi: A processing investigation. In R.T. Miller et al. (Ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 2012 Second Language Research Forum, (pp. 51-64). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.

Refereed Presentations

• *Mahraj, R. & Covey, L. (upcoming). “Receptive Language Switching Costs in Urdu-English Bilinguals: A Partial Replication Study.” Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting. New York, NY. January 4-7, 2024.

• Covey, L. & *Mikheeva, A. (2022). “Cognate effects during speech production in Russian-English-German trilinguals.” Poster presented at 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. Nov. 3-5.

• Aldosari, S. & Covey, L. (2022). “That-trace phenomenon in Najdi Arabic learners of English: Evidence from sentence acceptability judgments.” Poster presented at 47th Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD). Boston, MA. Nov. 3-5.

• *Mikheeva, A. & Covey, L. (2021). Trilingual word recognition in picture naming tasks: The study of Russian L1 speakers learning English as L2 and German as L3. Poster presented at 7th Annual Florida Psycholinguistics Meeting (online).

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2020). Individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies: An ERP investigation. Poster presented at 12th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (online).

• Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., **Pham, C., Wilson, D., & Gabriele, A. (2019). Examining island sensitivity in native and nonnative speakers: Evidence from acceptability judgments and event-related potentials. Talk presented at 44th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

• Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., **Pham, C., Wilson, D., & Gabriele, A. (2019). Tracking the dynamics of wh-dependency resolution inside and outside of islands: An ERP investigation of native speakers and L2 learners. Talk presented at XV Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA) Conference. Reno, NV.

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2018). Tracking the dynamics of wh-dependency resolution: An ERP investigation of native speakers and L2 learners. Talk presented at 37th Second Language Research Form (SLRF). Montreal, Canada.

• Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., & Gabriele, A. (2018). Individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies by native speakers and L2 learners: An ERP investigation. Talk presented in colloquium: “Event-related potentials and SLA: Brainwaves reveal new insights about individual differences in second language learning and processing,” organized by Sarah Grey & Harriet Bowden. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2018. Chicago, IL.

• Covey, L., Girolamo, T., Siew, C., Weyers, I., Yang, X., Vogt-Woodin, A., Coughlin, C., & Minai, U. (2017). Examining the role of pragmatics during children's comprehension of only: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at 42nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2017). Tracking the dynamics of wh- dependency resolution inside and outside of islands: An ERP investigation. Poster presented at 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Baltimore, MD.

• Feroce, N., Covey, L., Fiorentino, R., & Gabriele, A. (2017). Examining individual differences in the processing of referential dependencies in Spanish: An ERP investigation. Poster to be presented at 9th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Baltimore, MD.

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2017). Investigating island sensitivity in the processing of wh- dependencies: An ERP study. Poster presented at 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. MIT.

• Gabriele, A., Covey, L., Feroce, N., & Fiorentino, R. (2017). Individual differences in the processing of pronominal ambiguity in English and Spanish: An ERP investigation. Poster presented at Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University.

• Fiorentino, R., Gabriele, A., & Covey, L. (2016). Using event-related potentials to examine individual differences in the processing of pronominal reference. Poster presented at 29th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. University of Florida.

• Covey, L., Gabriele, A., & Fiorentino, R. (2015). Anticipatory processing of gender in L2 Hindi. Poster presented at 40th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.

• Renaud, C., Covey, L., Fistrovic, T., Ghanem, C., & Johnson E. (2015). His or her? L2 English learners' struggles with possessive determiners. Talk presented at Second Language Research Forum. Georgia State University. 

• Covey, L., Coughlin, C., Martinez-Garcia, M., Johnson, A., Yang, X., Siew, C., Major, T., & Fiorentino, R. (2015). An ERP investigation of the role of prediction and individual differences in semantic priming. Poster presented at 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Chicago, IL. 

• Gabriele, A., Fiorentino, R., & Covey, L. (2015). Examining individual differences in the processing of pronominal reference using event-related potentials. Poster presented at 7th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Chicago, IL. 

• Covey, L., Fiorentino R., and Gabriele, A. (2015). Predictive Processing of Grammatical Gender in Hindi. Poster presented at Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, July 14, 2015. University of Chicago.

• Gabriele A., Fiorentino R., Alemán Bañon J., Covey, L., & Rossamondo, A. (2014). Tracking emerging sensitivity to L2 morphosyntax: evidence for the role of the L1 from two longitudinal studies of early learners. Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference. Edinburgh, Scotland.

• Fiorentino R., Gabriele A., Alemán Bañon J., Covey, L., & Rossamondo, A. (2014). Tracking sensitivity to L2 morphosyntax: evidence for the role of the L1 from two longitudinal studies of early learners. Poster presented at 6th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language. Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

• Renaud, C. & Covey, L. (2012). Gender in Second-Language Acquisition: Processing Evidence from Hindi. Talk presented at Second Language Research Forum. University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. 

Invited Talks & Non-Refereed Presentations

• Howell, J., **Feratoska, S., & Covey, L. (2023). “More testing, lower stakes: Why your students will thank you for incorporating retrieval practice.” Workshop, Teaching and Learning Showcase, May 2, 2022. Montclair State University.

• Covey, L. (2022). “Your brain on language.” Invited talk, CogSci & Coffee: Cognitive Science for Everyone, March 14, 2022. Montclair State University.

• Covey, L. (2021). Native and non-native processing of wh-dependencies: An ERP investigation, Nov 17, 2021 (online). Research Institute for Multilingualism, Potsdam University.

• Covey, L. (2021). Island sensitivity in L2 learners: Evidence from event-related potentials and acceptability judgments. Centre for Research on Bilingualism, May 18, 2021 (online). Stockholm University.

• Covey, L. (2020). Individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies: An ERP investigation of native speakers and L2 learners. Departments of Hispanic and Italian Studies and Psychology, Nov. 24, 2020 (online). University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Covey, L. (2020). Individual differences in the processing of wh-dependencies: An ERP investigation of native speakers and L2 learners. Young Scholar Speaker Series, Feb. 14, 2020. Center for Language Science, Pennsylvania State University.

• Covey, L. (2017). Examining the role of pragmatics during children's processing of only: An eye-tracking investigation. Invited talk, Child Language Proseminar, August 30, 2017. University of Kansas.

• Yang, X. & Covey, L. (2016). Individual differences in prediction: An ERP study on word-pair semantic priming. Invited talk, Cognitive and Brain Sciences Proseminar, Oct. 17, 2016. University of Kansas.

• Covey, L. (2014). Tracking L2 development using ERPs: evidence from two longitudinal studies on the processing of gender and number agreement. Invited talk, Child Language Proseminar, Nov. 12, 2014. University of Kansas.

*Graduate student co-author

**Undergraduate student co-author