Members of the language acquisition research interest group
Current Members

Name

Department

Research interests
lab or personal page

Cynthia Clopper

Linguistics

Dialect acquisition
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~cclopper

Kathryn A. Corl

Germanic Languages & Literatures

L2 acquisition; bilingual lexicon; role of attention/executive processes

Peter Culicover

Linguistics

Language learnabilty; Computational models of language acquisition and language change
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~culicove/culicover.html

Allison Bean Ellawadi

Speech & Hearing

Language development in children with autism spectrum disorder

Micha Elsner

Linguistics

Models of lexical and phonetic acquisition
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~melsner

John Grinstead

Spanish & Portuguese

L1 syntactic acquisition; Specific language impairment
http://u.osu.edu/langlab

Derek Houston

Otolaryngology

Early cognitive and linguistic development in infants and young children; language input and interaction; hearing loss and cochlear implantation

Ludmila Isurin

Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures

Bilingualism; L1 attrition
https://slavic.osu.edu/people/isurin.1

Kiwako Ito

Linguistics

Acquisition of prosodic prominence for referential resolution; Prosody in spontaneous speech; Dialectal adaptation

Marie-Catherine de Marneffe

Linguistics

Acquisition of semantics and pragmatics; French
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~mcdm

Monique T. Mills

Speech & Hearing Science

Narrative assessment and African American English
https://sphs.osu.edu/people/mills.298

Leslie Moore

Education T&L

Language socialization and acquisition
https://u.osu.edu/moore.1817/ Lab website

Mineharu Nakayama

East Asian Languages & Literatures

L1/L2 Japanese syntactic acquisition

Holly J. Nibert

Spanish & Portuguese

L2 phonological acquisition
https://sppo.osu.edu/people/nibert.3 http://u.osu.edu/langlab/

Shari Speer

Linguistics

Acquisition of prosodic aspects of language production and comprehension
https://linguistics.osu.edu/people/speer.21

Carmen Taleghani-Nikazm

Germanic Languages and Literatures

Conversation analysis; L2 pragmatic development

Laura Wagner

Psychology

Children's acquisition of semantics
http://faculty.psy.ohio-state.edu/wagner/

Alumni

Name

Department

Research interests
lab or personal page

Meghan Armstrong

Spanish & Portuguese

L1/L2 acquisition of intonation; dialect acquisition

Hartman Brawley

Linguistics

acquisition of semantics, especially of telicity

Carolyn Dahlgren

Psychology

acquisition of metaphor

Jeff Holliday

Linguistics

L1/L2 phonological acquisition; Attention and cue learning; Korean
http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/~jeffh

Elizabeth McCullough

Linguistics

L1/L2 phonological acquisition

Kristin Rohrbeck

Psychology

Development of language preferences

Bridget Smith

Linguistics

Acquisition of sound systems and sound change
http://www.ling.osu.edu/~bsmith

Puisan Wong

Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Speech and language acquisition
http://ent.osu.edu/directory/research-scientists/pusian-wong-phd/

Former Faculty

Name

Department

Research interests
lab or personal page

Mary Beckman

Linguistics

L1 phonological acquisition across languages
http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~edwards

Susan Nittrouer

Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Speech development
http://www.speechdevelopment.org/


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