People

Utako Minai, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Linguistics) 
Acquisition and processing of language meaning in children and adults

Ayumi Nobuki 
Pragmatics and negation comprehension by Japanese-speaking children and adults

Münir Özturhan (also affiliated with Second Language Acquisition Lab and Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Lab) 
Acquisition of quantifier in child Turkish

Karina Saechao (also affiliated with CLDP) 
Acquisition and development of African American English

Xuan Wang (also affiliated with Second Language Acquisition Lab and Neurolinguistics and Language Processing Lab) 
Acquisition and processing of wh-operators in child Chinese

Lindsay Williams Osabuohien (also affiliated with CLDP) 
Language development in children with and without disorder

Allison Monteleone (2022-2024 KU Center for Undergraduate Research Emerging Scholar) 
Children's quantifier comprehension and task effects

Jacob Killough Curry (2024-2025 KU Center for Undergraduate Research Emerging Scholar) 
Language development in young children

Natalia Lopez-Rios 
Meaning comprehension by bilingual children

Ayaka Sugawara, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Waseda University)
Acquisition of semantics-pragmatics-phonology interface in children and adults

Yuka Naito-Billen, Ph.D. (Assistant Teaching Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures) 
Acquisition of Japanese by adult second language learners

Megumi Ishikawa (Summer 2019 JSPS Research Fellow; Assistant Professor, Tsuda University) Acquisition and processing of passive sentences in Japanese and English

Tingting Wang, Ph.D. (University of Iowa)
Pronoun resolution in Mandarin-speaking second language learners of English; Quantifier comprehension in children and adults

John Haug (KU NCCS)
Quantifier comprehension in children and adult speakers; Experimental task and program development 

Samantha Ghali, Ph.D. (KU LSI) 
Language development in children with and without language disorder

Amaya Madden  
Acquisition and processing of negative polarity items by second language learners of Japanese

Erin Andres, Ph.D. (Post-doctral researcher, University of Missouri) 
Genetics of language impairment; Semantics-pragmatic interface in child language 

Nick Feroce, Ph.D. (Research Scientis, Efficacy and Impact team with Lexia Learning) 
Pronoun referent identification in second language acquisition; Quantifier comprehension in children and adults

Claire Selin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. (Post-doctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University) 
Specific language impairment; Child maltreatment; Semantics-pragmatic interface in child language

Xiao Yang, Ph.D. (Language Data Researcher at Amazon Alexa) 
Scalar implicature generation and individual differences; Focus word processing by children and adults

Lauren Covey, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Montclair State University) 
Syntactic processing of complex clauses in first and second language; Focus word processing by children and adults

Breanna Krueger, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. (Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming) 
Developmental speech pathology; children's speech perception

Yi-Syuan (Michelle) Liu, Ph.D., CCC-SLP. (Assistant Professor, California Baptist University) 
Online processing of quantifier meaning; Argument structure acquisition in Chinese-speaking children

Chia-Ying (Joleen) Chu, Ph.D. (Research fellow, Children's Hearing Foundation, Taiwan) 
Acquisition of demonstratives in English and Chinese; Language development and Theory of Mind; Eye-tracking studies on child Chinese

Adrienne Johnson, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Missouri Western State University) 
Semantic interaction among logical words in children's meaning comprehension; Syntactic processing in adult second language acquisition

Yi-chih Chan, Ph.D. (Research fellow, Children's Hearing Foundation, Taiwan) 
Quantifier meaning in child language and development of executuve function; Development of reading ability in child Chinese

Alex Vogt-Woodin, MA. 
Semantics, Philosophy of language

Naoko Nadtochiy (Takami), MA. 
Second language acquisition of quantifier meaning in English and Japanese

Lamar Hunt III (Graduate program in Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University) 
Acquisition and processing of quantifier meaning, an ERP study

Rachel Brown (Graduate program in Linguistics, University of Arizona) 
Children's logico-semantic knowledge about Englsih compounds

Katherine Patz (JET Program Assistant Language Teacher) 
Development of syntax in early bilingualism involving English and Japanese

Jesus Briseno (2019-2020 KU Center for Undergraduate Research Emerging Scholar) 
Quantifier comprehension in children and adults

Ben Hoepner 
Children's comprehension of scalar implicature; Art direction in stimulus development

Susanna Glenn (2018-2019 KU Center for Undergraduate Research Emerging Scholar) 
Children's meaning processing

Kristen Leucuta (Graduate program in Speech-Language Pathology, University of Idaho) 
Children's meaning processing

Brandon Johnson 
Quantifier meaning in child English

Gretchen Hess 
Quantifier meaning in child English

Ben Bolton 
Semantics of logical words in children and adults

Patrick Connelly 
Comprehension of mimetics by native speakers of Japanese