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
A hearty congrats to grad student Nyssa Bulkes, who just received the award for best student poster at this year’s Mental Lexicon Conference! She was presenting her eye tracking work on anticipation, word recognition, and idiom comprehension in L1 and…
Congrats to grad students Nyssa Bulkes and Kailen Shantz who have recently had papers accepted for publication! Nyssa’s paper, published in Behavior Research Methods discusses a new norming database of English idioms, and can be found here: http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13428-016-0747-8 Kailen’s paper, published in…
Congrats to undergrad RA Rebekah Seyfert, who won the UIUC Department of Linguistics award for outstanding undergraduate student for 2015-16! Rebekah is a graduating senior who has been with us for three semesters, and has made great contributions to the…
A hearty congrats to Nyssa Bulkes, Ph.D. student in the ELP lab, who has been awarded a highly-competitive Beckman graduate fellowship for her interdisciplinary work focusing on context effects and prediction in visual word recognition. Cheers, Nyssa!
ELPers will be active on the conference circuit this fall. Here’s what we’ve got on tap: October 15-17: Neurobiology of Language Conference (Chicago, IL): Kailen Shantz and Darren Tanner “Talking out of order: does grammatical gender always precede phonology in…
The first data from the ELP lab are published and ready for the world! The paper was co-authored by lab director Darren Tanner and grad student Nyssa Bulkes, and investigated how cues to agreement dependencies differ in language production and…