Dissertation
Salig, L.K. (2024). How bilinguals’ comprehension of code-switches influences attention and memory. https://doi.org/10.13016/1wqs-eoau
Papers
Salig, L. K., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Menendez, J., Lulli, M.C., & Slevc, L. R. (2026). ¿Sabes si viene un code-switch? Bilinguals can predict upcoming code-switches given enough context. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-026-01877-3
Salig, L. K., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Novick, J. M., & Slevc, L. R. (2026). Bilinguals have better recall for code-switched information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33(56). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02823-1
Salig, L. K., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Slevc, L. R., & Novick, J. M. (2025). Hearing a code-switch increases bilinguals’ attention to and memory for information. Journal of Memory & Language, 143(104647). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2025.104647
Thompson, R. M., Salig, L. K., & Slevc, L. R. (2025). Is musical ability related to second-language learning? A meta-analysis. Royal Society Open Science, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241193
Salig, L. K., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Slevc, L. R., & Novick, J. M. (2024). Linking frequency to bilingual switch costs during real-time sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000366
Oppenheimer, K., Salig, L. K., Thorburn, C., Exton, E. (2022). Taking language science to Zoom school: Virtual outreach to elementary school students. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16(9). https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12471
Salig, L. K., Valdés Kroff, J. R., Slevc, L. R., & Novick, J. M. (2021). Moving from bilingual traits to states: Understanding cognition and language processing through moment-to-moment variation. Neurobiology of Language, 1-62. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00046
Salig, L. K., Epting, L. K., & Rand, L. A. (2018). Rarely say never: Essentialist rhetorical choices in college students' perceptions of persuasive writing. Journal of Writing Research, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.17239/jowr-2018.09.03.03
Manuscripts
Salig, L. K., Yu, C., Leachman, M., Dondati Purushotham, N., Ortiz- Villalobos, V., Flores-Gaona, Z., Vélez Negrón, V., Girardini, C., Fang, H., Baron, A., Bedore, L., Booth, J., Peña, E.D., Satterfield, T., Brennan, J.R., & Kovelman, I. (under review). Neural tracking of surprisal in Spanish-English bilingual children during naturalistic heritage language listening. Preprint available at https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5964042
Salig, L.K., Baybaş, J., Brennan, J.R., Kovelman, I., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (under review). Gestures modify predictive processing during listening comprehension. Data and analysis scripts available at https://osf.io/h7p36/
Adler, R., Salig, L., Novick, J., Huang, Y. (under review). “What a fabulous study this is!”: Context, conflict, and the time course of interpreting verbal irony. Preprint available at https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kv7c5_v1
Flores-Gaona, Z., Salig, L.K., Ortiz-Villalobos, V., Kovelman, I., Satterfield, T. (under review). Immigrant family code-switching practices and heritage language transmission: A cautionary tale at the intersection of social success, language competence, and motivation.
Satterfield, T., Salig, L., Vélez-Negrón, V., Leachman, M., Girardini, C., Bautista, A., Solís-Barroso, C., Johnson, Z., Monk, A., Caruso, V., & Kovelman, I. (under review). Clitic left dislocation in early and sequential Spanish-English bilinguals: Supporting syntactic analysis through brain-imaging.
Salig, L.K., Leachman, M., Eggleston, R.L., Yu, C., Kovelman, I. & Brennan, J.R. (in preparation). Predictive processing in school-aged children with and without dyslexia . OSF pre-registration available at https://osf.io/fyt4k
Leachman, M., Salig, L.K., Hu, X., Brennan, J.R., & Kovelman, I. (in preparation). Hierarchical surprisal tracking in heritage bilinguals and English monolinguals during naturalistic story listening.
Outreach Work: OSF Repository
Krauska, A., Exton, E., Oppenheimer, K., Salig, L., Thorburn, C. (2024) Getting started with virtual language science outreach. https://osf.io/tn5cg/wiki/home/