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.
Spring 2026 SLAB Meeting Dates and Topics
Meetings are held Wednesdays from 1:00pm to 2:00pm
| January 21 – Silvina, “Structural Maintenance in the Diaspora: Accusative Clitic Doubling in Argentine Immigrants in the United States” |
| January 28 – Cory, “First Language Retention in International Adoptees: Age, Re-exposure, or Ethnic Identity?” |
| February 04 – Andy, “What returnee bilinguals may teach us about language attrition, language stabilization, and individual variation” (Flores and Snape, 2025) |
| February 11 – Guest Speaker: Cristiana Luchetti, “Environmental drivers of language shift in heritage language communities” |
| February 18 – Paul, “The Effects of Literacy on the Development of Complex Morphosyntax in Monolingual and Bilingual Spanish-Speaking Adolescents” |
| February 25 – Cory, “Can early acquired languages be reactivated? Evidence from internationally adopted Korean Americans” |
| March 04 – Silvina, “How education level contributes to language change: Evidence from native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese” |
| March 11 – Brenda, “MA Project” |
| March 18 – SPRING BREAK |
| March 25 – |
| April 01 – Danny, “The Processing of Passive Voice Sentences in Spanish” |
| April 08 – Micah, “TBD” |
| April 15 – Andy, “TBD” |
| April 22 – Daniel, “TBD” |
| April 29 – Martine, “TBD” |
| May 06 – Aylin, “TBD” |
