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Director

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

Graduate Students

  • 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 Child Language Acquisition Studies Lab)
    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

Undergraduate Students

  • Allison Monteleone (2022-2024 KU Center for Undergraduate Research Emerging Scholar)
    Language development in young children

Adjunct Researchers

  • Yuka Naito-Billen, Ph.D. (Assistant Teaching Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
    Acquisition and processing of Japanese
    • Megumi Ishikawa (Summer 2019 JSPS Research Fellow; 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 comprheension in children and adult speakers; Experimental task and program development 

Graduates/Former members

  • Samantha Ghali, Ph.D. (KU Life Span Institute)
    Language development in children with and without language disorder
  • Amaya MaddenAcquisition 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 languguage 
  • 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 languguage
  • 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