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Colleen Balukas
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
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Cari Bogulski
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
Bilingualism and its cognitive consequences, second language acquisition, bimodal bilingualism, and how non-native languages can affect a native language

Mona Roxana Botezatu
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Research Interests:
Language processing: typical and atypical visual word recognition, code switching and inhibitory control during lexical retrieval in adult bilinguals. Language development: typical and atypical language and literacy development in bilingual children, with special interest in the cross-linguistic transfer of early literacy skills, as well as in the socio-cultural aspects of development.

Joshua R. Brown
Graduate Student, German and Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, sociology of language, language contact, language and gender/sexuality

Katie Chapman
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
Comparative cognition, animal behavior, non-human primate social communication and language, and lateralization of function.

Lindsey Corbin
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Research Interests:
Typical and atypical phonological acquisition in monolinguals and bilinguals, cognitive neuroscience, Indo-European linguistics.

David Counselman
PhD Candidate, Spanish Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Studying language acquisition and bilingualism from a psycholinguistic perspective.

Amelia Dietrich
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
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Evelyn Duran Urrea
PhD Candidate, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
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Research Interests:
Sociolinguistics, language contact, bilingualism, codeswitching, discourse analysis, functional syntax and Spanish as a heritage Language

Alison Klara Eisel
Graduate Student, German Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Grammatical gender arraignment and language/ dialect contact.

Christine Gardner
Graduate Student, German Linguistics
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Helen Marie Graves
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
Comparative Cognition

Jason Gullifer
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
Linguistics, Pyscholinguistics (Sentence Processing), Syntax and Syntactic Theory

Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo Graduate student, Spanish Linguistics
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Research interests: codeswitching, bilingualism, sentence processing, sociolinguistics, language contact

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

Alison (Vargo) Lutz
Graduate Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Research Interests:
Bilingual Spanish-English phonological acquisition and disorders.

Rhonda McClain
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Keyla Morales
Graduate Student, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
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Aaron Mitchel
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
First and second language acquisition, simultaneous bilingualism, bilingual language representation, and the evolution of language.

Ji Sook Park
Graduate Student, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Gerard (Trace) Poll
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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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.

Julianna Peters
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Myriam Ricci
Graduate Student, German Linguistics
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Shelley Scarpino
PhD Candidate, Communication Sciences and Disorders
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Research Interests:
Typical and atypical first and second language phonological acquisition, emerging literacy in children, relationship between vocabulary and phonology

Janalyn Sheetz
Graduate Student, Spanish Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Phonetic implementation of tone, tone languages in contact, speech production and sentence processing

Hiram Smith
Graduate Student, Spanish Linguistics
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Jorge Valdes Kroff
PhD Candidate, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
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Research Interests:
Sentence processing, auditory comprehension, psycholinguistics, codeswitching, and perception and production in bilingual populations

Arthur Wendorf
Graduate Student, Spanish Linguistics
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Research Interests:
Second language acquisition, second language testing, acquisition of the lexicon in a second language, technology in foreign language education, variation in speech rate across dialects of Spanish and the evolution of the Spanish lexicon

Benjamin Zinszer
Graduate Student, Psychology
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Research Interests:
Language attrition and relearning, concept and category formation, bilingualism, computational modeling