Lab meetings

Meeting schedule for spring 2008:
Lab meetings will be held in the linguistics conference room on Tuesdays (10-11am) or Thursdays (9-10am). (See specific dates below.) The first meeting is on Tuesday January 22.

Journal article reading club:
• Please email me if you would like to recommend an article.

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  The dates for the 2008 spring semester are listed below.

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  Tues Jan 22 (10-11am)	Introductions
  Tue Feb 5 (10-11am)	Michael Rushforth The acquisition of gender assignment in Spanish
  Thur Feb 14 (9-10am)	Tutorial on web-based experiments
  Tue Feb 19 (10-11am)	Heeju Hwang Scrambling or Subject: An on-line investigation of event apprehension and sentence formulation
  Thur March 6 (9-10am)	Yin Bin (title TBA)
  Tue March 11 (10-11am)	Stephanie Huang Investigating Filler-gap Dependencies in Chinese Topicalization
  Thur March 27 (9-10am)	TUTORIAL on Applying for Human Subjects permission
  Tue April 8 (10-11am)	Ed Holsinger Tutorial on php script for web experiments
  Thur April 24 (9-10am)

Faculty

• Elsi Kaiser (elsi dot kaiser at usc dot edu)
  • sentence processing
  • syntax/semantics/pragmatics interface issues
  • anaphor resolution during real-time processing
  • Finnish linguistics

• Elaine Andersen (eanderse at usc dot edu)
  • Language production and comprehension
  • Normal and Atypical language acquisition
  • Language and cognitive impairment in Aging and Alzheimer.s disease
  • Language and non-linguistic cognition
  • Technology-based assessment of language and literacy

• Toby Mintz USC Language Development Lab
  • language acquisition
  • grammatical learning during infancy
  • word learning
  • computational modeling

Students

• Susie Choi (susiecho at usc dot edu)
  • Speech perception and production
  • Reading

• Ed Holsinger (holsinge at usc dot edu)
  • Meaning and Reference
  • Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
  • Lexical Architecture

• Emily Nava (hinch at usc dot edu)
  • Anaphor resolution in pro-drop languages
  • Architecture of the bilingual system
  • Neuroimaging
  • Prosody and syntax interface

• Michael Shepherd (mshepher at usc dot edu)
  • Speech Perception
  • Phonetics

• Erin Tavano (tavano at usc dot edu)
  • focus / pitch accent
  • semantics especially pronoun reference / anaphora
  • SLA, especially for languages with different modalities or writing systems.

• Aaron Walker (ahwalker at usc dot edu)

• Hao Wang (haowang at usc dot edu)
  • first language acquisition
  • neural basis of language
  • sentence processing

• Fuyun Wu (fuyunwu at usc dot edu)
  • sentence processing
  • syntax-semantics interface
  • language acquisition (first and second)
  • Chinese linguistics
  • neurolinguistics and cognition

Former members

• Todd Haskell (thaskell at usc dot edu)
  • subject-verb agreement
  • speech errors
  • sentence processing
  • language and vision

• Tania Ionin (ionin at usc dot edu) USC Second Language Acquisition group
  • second language acquisition of syntax/semantics, with a focus on the acquisition of determiners
  • syntax/semantics interface
  • first language acquisition

• Jelena Krivokapic (krivokap at usc dot edu)

• Eurom Ok (eok at usc dot edu)
  • Speech perception and production
  • Lexical activation
  • Korean phonetics and phonology

• Stephen Tobin (stobin at usc dot edu)

Useful links

• USC Phonetics lab
• USC Language Development Lab
• USC Second Language Acquisition group
• IRB
• E-Prime (experiment running software)
• Flxlab (experiment running software by Todd Haskell)
• Audacity (sound editor)
• Praat (phonetics program, sound editor)
• WebExp (software for web experiments)
• Frequency resources:
• Linguistic Data Consortium
• more coming soon.

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