Research in the Language, Cognition and Development Lab investigates how language relates to cognition and how children learn languages.

Ongoing studies include:

• The influence of accessibility on English-speaking children's use of word order
• Accessibility effects on adults' use of word order during memory interference
• Thinking for speaking effects in Spanish-English bilinguals

The lab is located at The Center for Innovation and Creativity (CINC), 1777 Exposition Drive, Boulder, Room 223/224. If you would like to participate in any of these studies, please send email to: Bhuvana.Narasimhan@colorado.edu

Lab Members:

Bhuvana Narasimhan

Jill Duffield

I am a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. My research interests include child language, usage-based accounts of syntax, aphasia, and the psycholinguistics of complex syntax. My current research focuses on corpus studies of child and adult relative clauses.

Celeste Smitz

I am a Linguistics/Integrative Physiology double major-Dance minor with a bridge over to the Education Department. I am interested in and fascinated by Linguistics, especially Etymology, Grammar, Psycholinguistics, and learning and teaching Latin-derived languages. Research interests include bilingual/multilingual cognition and developmet, psycholinguistics, and SLA.

Skye Smith

Being an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado has allowed me to spend quite a bit of time at school in Boulder; my studies include Political Science, Literature, as well as Linguistics. I am interested in Linguistics because it examines language, a passion of particular importance to me.

Former Lab Members:

Vicky Lai
(currently at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

I am interested in the mental processes involved in semantics, including lexical semantics and language and thought. In the area of lexical semantics, I have been looking at the processing of homonymy, polysemy, and metaphor with the measures of reaction time and brain electrical activity (ERPs). In the area of language and thought, I have looked at the processing of temporal perspectives in English and Mandarin. And currently I am using offline measures to test thinking-for-speaking effects in bilingual speakers’ encoding of motion events.