Congratulations! to our 6 graduating RAs: Teresa Turco, Maya Salmon, Jocelyn Marks, Nate Jones, Madison Barker, and Alma Reinebach! LCNL thanks you for your hard work and wishes you the best in future endeavors! Teresa Turco will be traveling this summer to Ghent, Belgium, to present her senior thesis at the…
Congratulations to our undergraduates who will participate in summer internships, training programs, and other academic enrichment! Sophomore Emily Perez will attain hands-on research experience through UROP (The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program) at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. Emily will participate in German language training and workshops on intercultural…
Update: Click here to listen to the recording of the radio show featuring our research if you missed it! LCNL researchers Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald will be interviewed on Perpetual Notion Machine, the weekly science show on Madison’s community radio station, WORT. If you’d like to hear Elise and Maryellen talk…
Our lab published a paper today in the journal Psychological Science by Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald titled “Production Practice During Language Learning Improves Comprehension”. Abstract Language learners often spend more time comprehending than producing a new language. However, memory research suggests reasons to suspect that production practice might provide a…
This Friday, April 13th in Union South the undergraduate symposium will feature four senior thesis presentations connected with LCNL (full program here). Teresa Turco will present a talk titled ‘The Effects of Accented Speech on Knowledge Acquisition’ at 9:30 am in the Alumni room. Her senior thesis was conducted in LCNL under…
Two LCNL projects were presented at the 31st Annual CUNY Human Sentence Processing Conference, March 15-17 at UC Davis. Check out the posters below: Steven Schwering and Maryellen MacDonald Syntax and recall serial: The effect of positional statistics on serial ordering. Mark Koranda and Maryellen MacDonald The Breadth of Phonological…
An LCNL collaborator, Professor Julie Washington, is featured in The Atlantic in the article Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English. The article discusses the importance of research on dialect and literacy. The author attended Washington’s recent plenary talk at NWAV46 at UW-Madison, where Professor Seidenberg introduced…
Jamie Dawson is a featured student on UW-Madison’s College of Letters and Science website today! Jamie works at LCNL with Elise Hopman on research related to language learning, accents, and dialects. Jamie is also an artist and part of UW’s First Wave Spoken Word and Hip Hop Arts Learning Community.…
Elise Hopman will present at the upcoming Kaleidoscope Graduate Conference at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her talk is titled “A Big Data Investigation into Predictors of Early Second Language Word Learning Accuracy” and will be part of the round-table discussion “Mastering Vocabulary: Language…
Elise Hopman and Maryellen MacDonald‘s abstract “Language production practice improves comprehension performance on grammatical dependencies in early L2 learning” was accepted to ISBPAC 2018 (the International Symposium on Bilingual Processing in Adults and Children). They will present this work in a talk in Braunschweig, Germany, May 24-25 2018. The talk…
