Language Processing lab
People:
Faculty | Students
| Past members
Faculty
-
Lab Director: 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
- Roumyana
Pancheva
- syntax and the syntax/semantics interface
- cognitive neuroscience of syntax and semantics
- Maria Luisa
Zubizarreta USC Second Language
Acquisition Group
- syntax and lexical semantics
- syntax & prosody
- second language speech and acquisition
- language contact and language acquisition
Students
(This list is being updated)
- Mary Byram (byram at usc dot edu)
-
Optional Constituent Orderings
- Especially anything involving nouns in
the VP (For example: Dative Shift, Heavy NP Shift)
- The Nature of Focus
- This includes trying to distinguish one
type of
focus from another, defining these different types, and determining how
both the parser and the grammar represent focus.
- Xiao He
(hex at usc dot edu)
-
second language acquisition
- bilingualism
- psycholinguistics (anaphor
resolution)
- Ed Holsinger (holsinge at usc dot edu)
- Meaning and Reference
- Syntax/Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
- Lexical Architecture
- Stephanie Yu-Chi
Huang
(yuchih at usc dot edu)
- Heeju Hwang
(heejuhwa at usc dot edu)
- Sentence production
- Sentence processing
- Lucy Kyoungsook Kim(lucykimmy at gmail dot com)
- Interpretation of null arguments in Korean
- Interpretation of English articles by second language (L2) learners
- L2 learners' sensitivity to strong and weak subjacency violations in
English
- Specificity and Definiteness in Korean NP
- David Li (lidc at usc dot edu)
- Sentence processing
- Chinese linguistics
- Phonetics
- Yi-Hsien Liu (yihsienl at usc dot edu)
-
SLA for languages with different orthographies
- Syntax/Semantics Interface
- Chinese Linguistics
- Katy
McKinney-Bock (ksmckinn at usc dot edu)
- Syntax/Semantics
- Effects of focus on constituent ordering
- Experimental Syntax & measuring linguistic intuitions
- Language Acquisition
-
Emily Nava (hinch
at usc dot edu)
- Anaphor resolution in pro-drop languages
- Architecture of the bilingual system
- Neuroimaging
- Prosody and syntax interface
-
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
- Yin Bin (binyin at usc dot edu)
- (Bilingual) lexical processing
- Second language acquisition of tense/aspect morphology
Past members
-
Todd Haskell
(now at Western Washington University)
- subject-verb agreement
- speech errors
- sentence processing
- language and vision
-
Tania Ionin (now
at UIUC) 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
(now at Yale University)
- Eurom Ok
- Speech perception and production
- Lexical activation
- Korean phonetics and phonology
- Michael
Shepherd (mshepher at usc dot edu)
- Speech Perception
- Phonetics
-
Stephen Tobin (now at
UConn)
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