This week the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and technology profiled ELPer Kailen Shantz and his work as the Beckman Institute Student Researcher of the week! Read about Kailen and his work here: https://beckman.illinois.edu/news/2017/9/student-shantz

This week ELPer Andrew Armstrong was highlighted by the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology as their student researcher of the week! Congrats Andrew! Read more here  

Today Nyssa successfully defended her dissertation, titled “Reading between the lines: Psycholinguistic indices of prediction and formulaicity in language comprehension.” Nyssa has been with the ELP Lab from Day 1, and she’ll be missed sorely, but we’re proud of all…

We’re very excited to announce that ELP grad student Nyssa Bulkes has accepted a position as a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Prof. Vicky Lai at the University of Arizona.  Congrats Nyssa!

Darren Tanner has been selected to be among the first cohort of LEAP Scholars for 2016-2018. The LEAP Program is meant to honor excellence in scholarship and mentoring among junior faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. You…

ELP grad student Kailen Shantz has a new paper in press in Second Language Research looking at interactions between L2 proficiency and the linguistic variables of grammaticality and phrase frequency in L2 sentence comprehension.  Get the full text here! 

Tanner and colleagues have a new paper in Psychophysiology demonstrating that retrieval interference and reanalysis load have dissociable effects on the P600 component during sentence comprehension. Get the full text here!

Kailen Shantz’ new paper on phrase frequency and morphosyntax in L2 processing is now available online! Have a look! http://slr.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/10/18/0267658316673403