Philip Baldi
Professor of Linguistics and Classics
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Research Interests:
Language change, morphology, Indo-European linguistics

Paola E. (Giuli) Dussias
Associate Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
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Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, sentence parsing, code-switching, second language acquisition

Chip Gerfen
Associate Professor of Linguistics and Spanish Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Phonology, Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Mixteco

Carrie Jackson
Assistant Professor of German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
SLA, psycholinguistics, sentence processing

Judith F. Kroll
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Women's Studies
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Research Interests:
Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, second language acquisition, language processing

Ping Li
Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Information Sciences and Technology
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Research Interests:
Cognitive neuroscience, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, computational and neural mechanisms of language acquisition.

John Lipski
Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
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Research Interests: Spanish phonology, Spanish and Portuguese dialectology and language variation, the linguistic aspects of bilingualism, and the African contribution to Spanish and Portuguese.

Elina Mainela-Arnold
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Cognitive mechanisms involved in language acquisition, the way in which these mechanisms interact with environmental language input, and how this interaction can be used to explain individual differences in language ability. Children with specific language impairment (SLI).

Carol Miller
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Typical and atypical language development; children with specific language impairment; cognitive processes in communication disorders, with emphasis on cognitive and perceptual processing in children and adults with language disorders.

Maya Misra
Assistant Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Behavioral and cognitive neuroscience (ERP and fMRI) investigations of the language processing system; reading development and developmental dyslexia; automatic components of lexical access; development of proficiency and cognitive control in bilinguals.

Richard Page
Director of the Program in Lingusitics
Associate Professor of German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Germanic linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, language contact, Pennsylvania German, and phonology.

Pilar Piñar
Visiting Scholar at Penn State
Associate Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Gallaudet University
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Research Interests:
Gesture and sign language research, bilingualism and second language acquisition, sentence processing and literacy.

Nuria Sagarra
Assistant Professor, Spanish, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Director, Spanish Basic Language Program
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Research Interests:
Working memory, second-language morphosyntactic processing, computer-delivered feedback on error.

Robert W. Schrauf
Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Bilingual autobiographical memory, language, culture and cognitive aging; and applied linguistics and health sciences.

Rena Torres Cacoullos
Associate Professor of Spanish, Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Language variation & change, grammaticization, language contact, Hispanic linguistics

Janet van Hell
Professor of Language Development: Radboud University Nijmegen
Visiting Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Penn State
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Research Interests:
Second language learning and bilingualism/multilingualism; Language development in children with a typical or atypical language development (children who are deaf, children with dyslexia, with SLI, and bilingual children from an ethnic minority background).

Daniel J. Weiss
Associate Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Language Acquisition, Statistical Learning, Comparative Cognition and Communication with Nonhuman Primates.