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Joe Bauman
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
Email: jrb922 [at] psu.edu

Cindy Blanco
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Research Interests:
Grammatical gender, phonology, morphology, (first) language acquisition, bilingualism, and cognition.

Geraldine Blattner
Fifth year PhD student and Graduate Assistant, French Department
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Research Interests:
Sentence processing, second language acquisition, language learning in education abroad, technology in the classroom.

Christopher Botero
Assistant Professor of Spanish & SLA, Georgia Regents University
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Research Interests:
Phonetics, phonology, bilingualism, second-language acquisition.

Susan C. Bobb
Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Göttingen
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Research Interests:
Bilingualism, word production, second language acquisition.

Mona Roxana Botezatu
Post Doctoral Fellow at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
Email: botezatr [at] einstein.edu
Research Interests:
Phonological, orthographic, semantic and cognitive control aspects of visual and auditory word recognition in bilingual, aphasic and aging populations

Joshua R. Brown
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
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Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, sociology of language, language contact, language and gender/sexuality

Janalyn Byrne
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Research Interests:
Phonetic implementation of tone, tone languages in contact, speech production and sentence processing

Matthew T. Carlson
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso
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Research Interests:
First and Second Language Phonology, First and second language acquisition, Emergent grammar, statistical learning, working memory and SLA, gesture, bilingualism.

Carmen Castro
Lecturer, Department of Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania
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David Counselman
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Ohio Wesleyan University
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Research Interests:
L2 pronunciation, L1 and L2 speech perception and production

Megan Dunn Davison
Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico
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Research Interests:
Language and literacy development and disorders in preschool-age children with a special interest in diverse, at-risk populations.

Evelyn Duran Urrea
Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, language contact, bilingualism, codeswitching, discourse analysis, functional syntax and Spanish as a heritage Language

Verónica González López
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Research Interests:
Cross-language speech perception and production, contact linguistics

Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo
Research Interests:
Codeswitching, bilingualism, sentence processing, sociolinguistics, language contact

Aroline Seibert Hanson
Post-doctoral student, The Pennsylvania State University
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Research Interests:
Second language acquisition and processing (specifically of clitic pronouns), and cognitive individual differences

Norkio Hoshino
Associate Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Research Interests:
Bilingualism, psycholinguistics, language production.

Adelina Hristova
PhD student, College of Education, Department of Learning and Performance Systems, Adult Education Program
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Research Interests:
Literacy for culturally and linguistically diverse populations, bilingualism and multilingualism in the global context, measurements of success for adult learners, comparative and international education, distance education and web-based learning.

Noelle Andrie (Isenberg)
PhD candidate, German Applied Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Web-based foreign language learning, applied psycholinguistics.

Hiroko Kitajima
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
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Research Interests:
Experimental phonology, bilingualism/multilingualism, and language contact

Jared Linck
Assistant Research Scientist - Second Language Acquisition, University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language
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Research Interests:
Bilingualism, individual differences in L2 acquisition, context of learning, immersion learning, executive functioning/cognitive control and their roles in L2 acquisition and use, aptitude for foreign language learning.

Aaron Mitchel
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bucknell University
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Research Interests:
First and second language acquisition, simultaneous bilingualism, bilingual language representation, and the evolution of language.

Juliana Peters

Tyler Phelps
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Research Interests:
Lexical and syntactic processing, codeswitching.

Gerard (Trace) Poll
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Research Interests:
Developmental language and literacy disorders in adolescents and young adults; relationships between delayed language emergence and language disorders in children; typical first language development.

Tracy Cramer Scaltz
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Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, sentence parsing, second language acquisition

Shelley Scarpino
Research Interests:
Typical and atypical first and second language phonological acquisition, emerging literacy in children, relationship between vocabulary and phonology

Ana I. Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Texas at El Paso
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Research Interests:
Bilingual lexical representation and reading comprehension processes; bilingual emergent literacy and vocabulary acquisition; second language pedagogy and teacher preparation; eye-tracking methodology.

Mike Shelton
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, Occidental College
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Research Interests:
Experimental approaches to phonology, cognitive representation of phonological structure, speech production.

Eva María Suárez Büdenbender
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Gretchen Sunderman
Associate Professor of Spanish, Florida State University
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Research Interests:
Second Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Lexical Processing.

Joyce Tam
Research Technologist
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Lab Affiliation:
The Language and Cognition Laboratory (The Purple Lab)
The Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory

Natasha Tokowicz
Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics and Research Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
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Research Interests:
Second language learning, bilingualism.

Jorge Valdés Kroff
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania
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Research Interests:
Sentence processing, auditory comprehension, psycholinguistics, codeswitching, and perception and production in bilingual populations