Events

Interested students and researchers are welcome to join Dr. Silvina Montrul and collaborators in discussing research happening in connection with the SLAB lab. Current projects include work on child L2 and heritage language acquisition, gender cues, and differential object marking. SLAB Meetings take place weekly every semester. For information about joining Zoom meetings, please email slab.uiuc@gmail.com

Spring 2025 SLAB Meeting Dates and Topics
Meetings are held Wednesdays from 2.30pm to 3.30pm (or longer if needed).

January 22nd – Organizational meeting

January 29th – Paul
(‘Effects of Grammatical Feature Dissimilarities on the Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Adolescent Spanish Heritage Speakers’)

February 5th – Cory (First Language Retention in Adult Korean Adoptees)

February 12th – Martine (Topic TBD)

February 19th – Walther
(Using Agent-based Simulation to test for Transmission of Language Change in Heritage Language Communities)

February 26th – Irina (Post doc work presentation (Title TBD))

March 12th – Franco(MA Paper (Title TBD))

March 26th – Karen (Topic TBD)

April 2nd – Brenda (MA paper prep (Title TBD))

April 9th – Izaro (Topic TBD)

April 16 – Eleanor (Qual 1 (Title TBD))

April 23rd – Melika (Qual 1 (Title TBD))

Aptil 30th – Ella (Topic TBD)

May 7th – Andrew (Topic TBD)