• 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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