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CLS Weekly Meetings:Fridays 10-11:30am in Moore 453
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Everyone is welcome to participate!
News: Announcement of the Adele Miccio Memorial Travel Award
The Center for Language Science, located in the Moore building, is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in language acquisition and bilingualism.
Our research focuses on language science from a diverse set of perspectives. These include:
- typical language development
- atypical language development
- psycholinguistics
- cognitive neuroscience
Using sophisticated behavioral and neuroscience methods such as eye tracking, acoustic analysis, and electrophysiological recording of brain activity members of the CLS seeks to learn about the inner workings of language with a special focus on bilingualism.
The CLS meets weekly to discuss research, read papers together, share new methodological developments, and practice giving conference talks. One of our main goals is to foster collaborative research projects across the disciplines.
The CLS includes affiliated researchers around the world. Our many national and international collaborations bring distinguished visitors to the Penn State campus, and provide opportunities for our students to gain valuable research experience at other U.S. universities as well as in other countries. The CLS is an affiliate of the NSF Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University, opening up further opportunities for collaboration in deaf studies, translation, and sign languages.
Support for the CLS is provided from within Penn State by the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium; The College of the Liberal Arts; and the College of Health and Human Development. Funding for individual faculty and graduate students is provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Structure of CLS
The Center for Language Science resides within the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Health and Human Development. It is governed by an internal faculty advisory committee and also an external advisory board. The composition of each of these groups reflects the cross-disciplinary approaches that characterize the CLS.
The Internal Faculty Advisory Committee
Director of the Center for Language Science
Professor Judith Kroll - jfk7@psu.edu
(Department of Psychology)
Associate Co-Directors of the Center for Language Science
Professor Giuli Dussias - pdussias@psu.edu
(Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Professor Carol Miller - cam47@psu.edu
(Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Director of the Linguistics Program
Professor Philip Baldi - phb@psu.edu
(Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (CAMS))
The External Advisory Board
The advisory board for the CLS comprises four internationally-renowned researchers each representing our various disciplines.
Professor Margaret Deuchar
Director, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism
University of Wales, Bangor
Professor Karen Emmorey
Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
San Diego State University
Professor Laurence Leonard
Rachel E. Stark Distinguished Professor
Purdue University
Professor John Trueswell
Director of the IGERT Language and Communication Program
University of Pennsylvania