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	Studies: Czech: We are currently looking for native Czech speakers for an online language processing study. We are testing speakers from 18-40 years of age, who acquired Czech as their first and dominant language, and learned any other languages as adults. Please contact us, if you may be interested in participating. Thank you! Announcements: 11/02/09: We will be meeting today at 5:30pm, at 2 Arrow St. #420. Jean Crawford, from UConn, will be presenting on syntactic satiation (please click here, for the abstract and background readings). Please continue to check our wiki, for the most up-to-date meeting schedule. Most of the wiki pages also now have open editing access (you will still need a password to view or edit some of the pages). 10/19/09: Our next lab meeting will be held on Monday, October 26th, at 5:30pm at 2 Arrow St. #420. Kate Davidson and Ivano Caponigro, from UCSD, will be presenting a talk titled "Scalar Implicatures in American Sign Language." Also, from 3:00 to 5:00pm, Loraine Obler from CUNY will be presenting on bilingual brain imaging, as part of a Ling200 invited lecture, in Sever 203. 10/19/09: We now have a lab wiki, where lab members can post descriptions of ongoing projects, data collection, and annotation manuals. It will also contain notes and information on past and upcoming lab meetings and local events (meeting announcements will continue to be posted here, as well). Please click here to see past announcements. Studies in Heritage Languages and Language Processing What are the major cognitive constraints on the processing of language in real time? What makes one a fluent speaker of a language learned since birth? In our lab, we address these questions by studying how native speakers respond to the structure and meaning of their language. We also study the knowledge of language in heritage speakers—those who grew up hearing and even speaking a language other English but who are now more comfortable in English. According to recent statistics about one third of American college undergraduates are heritage speakers. This large demographic group has been virtually neglected until recently, but understanding what they know is crucial to our understanding of language acquisition in general. We use behavioral methods to study native and heritage speakers of a range of languages such as English, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, and Persian.
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Studies:

Czech: We are currently looking for native Czech speakers for an online language processing study. We are testing speakers from 18-40 years of age, who acquired Czech as their first and dominant language, and learned any other languages as adults. Please contact us, if you may be interested in participating. Thank you!

Announcements:

11/02/09: We will be meeting today at 5:30pm, at 2 Arrow St. #420. Jean Crawford, from UConn, will be presenting on syntactic satiation (please click here, for the abstract and background readings). Please continue to check our wiki, for the most up-to-date meeting schedule. Most of the wiki pages also now have open editing access (you will still need a password to view or edit some of the pages).

10/19/09: Our next lab meeting will be held on Monday, October 26th, at 5:30pm at 2 Arrow St. #420. Kate Davidson and Ivano Caponigro, from UCSD, will be presenting a talk titled "Scalar Implicatures in American Sign Language." Also, from 3:00 to 5:00pm, Loraine Obler from CUNY will be presenting on bilingual brain imaging, as part of a Ling200 invited lecture, in Sever 203.

10/19/09: We now have a lab wiki, where lab members can post descriptions of ongoing projects, data collection, and annotation manuals. It will also contain notes and information on past and upcoming lab meetings and local events (meeting announcements will continue to be posted here, as well).

Please click here to see past announcements.

Studies in Heritage Languages and Language Processing

What are the major cognitive constraints on the processing of language in real time? What makes one a fluent speaker of a language learned since birth? In our lab, we address these questions by studying how native speakers respond to the structure and meaning of their language. We also study the knowledge of language in heritage speakers—those who grew up hearing and even speaking a language other English but who are now more comfortable in English. According to recent statistics about one third of American college undergraduates are heritage speakers. This large demographic group has been virtually neglected until recently, but understanding what they know is crucial to our understanding of language acquisition in general.

We use behavioral methods to study native and heritage speakers of a range of languages such as English, Russian, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, and Persian.