January 9-12 2025
Yumeng Lin and Emily Brady present at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting. Yumeng’s talk on Friday in the 1:45 pm Acquisition session is titled “How Parent Language Input is (and is not) Tuned to Support Children’s Verb Learning”. Emily’s poster on Saturday in the 10:45 am session is titled “Parent Language in Two Different Play Contexts”.
November 23 2024
Huanhuan Shi presents a poster at Psychonomics in NYC titled “The Potential Role of Chunking in Preschoolers’ Novel Word Learning”.
November 18 2024
New paper out with Elena Tenenbaum and the RISE Consortium:
November 8 2024
We’re presenting a poster at BUCLD in Boston, MA: “Why does Mommy refer to herself in the third person?”
October 28 2024
New paper out with Allison Fitch, Amy Lieberman, Mike Frank, Jessica Brough and Matthew Valleau:
Fitch, A., Lieberman, A. M., Frank, M. C., Brough, J., Valleau, M., & Arunachalam, S. (2024). Referential transparency of verbs in child-directed input by Japanese and American caregivers. Journal of Child Language, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S0305000924000382
September 25 2024
New editorial with Yi Ting Huang to introduce a special issue of Language Acquisition on clinical populations acquiring non-English languages.
July 12 2024
We finished a second successful summer of SHARE-CSD, with three new students participating: Emma Baby, Carissa Lam, and Starr Martin, and we reunited with last year’s cohort as well! PhD student Vishakha Shukla provided mentorship and project guidance.
July 11 2024
With the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE) Consortium headed by Elena Tenenbaum, we’re presenting at the International Congress of Infant Studies in Glasgow, UK:
Stone, C., Vu, M. H., Hare, M., Waterman, A. K., Gilyard, K. R., Arunachalam, S., Bergelson, E., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Kline Struhl, M., Landa, R. J., Lew-Williams, C., Libertus, M. E., Luyster, R. J., Markant, J., Sheinkopf, S. J., Wagner, J. B., Park, K., Grapel, J. N., Soderling, A. I., Jeste, S, & Tenenbaum, E. J. (2024). Test-rest reliability in remote application administration with infants.
June 25 2024
Huanhuan Shi successfully defended her dissertation titled “Children’s Language Learning and Language Production Across Contexts – A Cognitive Load Perspective”!
June 1 2024
Huanhuan Shi presents her dissertation work at SRCLD in Madison, WI: “The role of chunked determiner phrases in syntactic bootstrapping”
May 15-18 2024
We’re presenting at INSAR in Melbourne, Australia:
Luyster, R. J., Sheinkopf, S. J., Tenenbaum, E., Stone, C., Hare, M., Gilyard, K., Vu, M. H., Lew-Williams, C., Wagner, J., Markant, J., Arunachalam, S., Bergelson, E., Sabatos-DeVito, M., & Jeste, S. (2024). Pilot Study of the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE) Battery.
Arunachalam, S., Boyd, T., Eveleigh, A., Buonocore, T., & Luyster, R. J. (2024). Learning new words: Overheard vs. addressed speech.
May 14 2024
Congrats to LEARN Lab students who are graduating this May! And a special congrats to those who won school-wide or departmental awards: Emily Brady, Angela Frechette, Bayle Margolis
April 24 2024
New paper out with collaborators from Indiana University and Boston University:
Gangopadhyay, I., Fulford, D., Corriveau, K., Mow, J., Li, P. H., & Arunachalam, S. Pupils dilate more to harder vocabulary words than easier ones. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13446
March 21-23 2024
Check out our posters at the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Pasadena, CA:
Is parents’ verb use tuned to whether the child knows the verb? A pilot study. Munir, T. Y. & Arunachalam, S.
With SHARE-CSD alumni:
Verb learning using mutual exclusivity in English-learning preschoolers. Gordon, K., Moran-Flores, A., Rivera, L., Shukla, V., & Arunachalam. S.
March 14-16 2024
Members of our team are going to the Meeting on Language in Autism in Durham, NC! Check out our posters:
With the Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE) Consortium headed by Elena Tenenbaum:
Predictive validity of parent-report measures of infant behavior for language development. Gilyard, K., Stone, C., Hare, M., Arunachalam, S., Luyster, R., Landa, R., Bergelson, E., Lew-Williams, C., Frank, M.C., Sheinkopf, S.J., Markant, J., Wagner, J., Vu, M., Sabatos-DeVito, M., Jeste, S., & Tenenbaum, E.
With our collaborators at Emerson College, presented by Rose Turner:
Does parent report of children’s unconventional language correlate with communication development? Turner, R., Buonocore, T., Luyster, R., & Arunachalam, S.
March 11 2024
New open-access paper out with collaborators from Emerson College:
Arunachalam, S., Steele, A., Pelletier, T., & Luyster, R. J. Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3121
March 2 2024
New open-access paper out with collaborators from University of Groningen and Macquarie University:
Svaldi, C., Kohnen, S., Robidoux, S., Vos, K., Reinders, A., Arunachalam, S., Jonkers, R., & de Aguiar, V. (2024). Spoken verb learning in children with language disorder. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 242, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105881
January 8 2024
Sudha Arunachalam is presenting lectures at the University of Groningen to researchers and Master’s students in the European Master’s in Clinical Linguistics program.
December 13 2023
New publication: In “Assessing receptive verb knowledge in late talkers and autistic children: advances and cautionary tales” in Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Sabrina Horvath and Sudha Arunachalam explore the possibilities and challenges of developing eye-gaze assessments of receptive vocabulary knowledge specifically for verbs.
November 17 2023
Our newest publication is now available online: In Event end-state encoding in 13-month-olds—completed and non-completed events are different, we present evidence that infants notice the difference between events that complete fully (e.g., covering something) and events that don’t quite complete (e.g., covering 80% of something). This is relevant for thinking about why children have difficulty learning verbs like “fill” and “cover” within and across languages!
November 4 2023
Former postdoc Jonet Artis presents our joint work at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD): “Which words do children understand but not yet say? Syntactic complexity and the comprehension-production gap”.
October 25 2023
Vishakha Shukla presents at Many Paths to Language at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen: “Attention to illustrations in autistic and non-autistic children following spontaneous parent narratives: An exploratory eye-tracking study”.
September 1 2023
Farewell to postdoc Jonet Artis, now President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland, and Ebony Goldman, now doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center. Welcome to new lab managers Payton Summers and Tarannum (Yumi) Munir, and several new undergraduate and Master’s students!
July 22 2023
The LEARN Lab hosted 3 undergraduate students as part of the SHARE-CSD program (funded by NIH R25DC020417, PIs Levi & Arunachalam): Lindsey Rivera, Alondra Moran-Flores, Kamille Gordon.
June 1 2023
LEARN Lab members are presenting posters at SRCLD:
First- and second-person pronoun comprehension in autistic and nonautistic children. Artis, J., Luyster, R. J., Carroll, L., He, Angela X., & Arunachalam, S.
Processing load and verb learning in an online study with autistic and non-autistic preschoolers. Shukla, V., Luyster, R. J., & Arunachalam, S.
May 16 2023
LEARN Lab members win school-wide graduation awards: MS-SLP students María Cobo Nieto and Tania Hernandez McShane, and undergraduate student Estefanía Narvaez!
May 5 2023
Collaborator Rhiannon Luyster is presenting some of our joint work at INSAR:
Do personal interests support word learning? A study with autistic and non-spectrum children. Luyster, R. J., Steele, A., Pelletier, T., & Arunachalam, S.
May 4 2023
Postdoc Jonet Artis and Sudha Arunachalam have a new paper out on vocabulary knowledge in young autistic children:
Semantic and syntactic properties of words and the receptive-expressive gap in autistic and nonautistic children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 66(5), 1771-1791. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_jslhr-22-00369
March 29 2023
Lab manager and incoming LEARN lab PhD student Lily Carroll was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!
March 9 2023
Postdoc Jonet Artis and doctoral student Vishakha Shukla are traveling to MoLA (Meeting on Language in Autism). They’re presenting posters on:
- The syntactic properties of the early vocabulary of children on the autism spectrum. Artis, J., Diagana, S. & Arunachalam, S.
- Parental tuning of narratives directed to autistic and non-autistic children: An exploratory eye-tracking study. Shukla, V., He, A.X. & Arunachalam, S.
and we also have collaborative work on:
- Do personal interests support word learning? A study with autistic and non-spectrum children. Luyster, R., Steele, A., Pelletier, T. & Arunachalam, S.
- Remote methods for assessing receptive language in infancy – comparison of looking-while-listening and parent-report. Stone, C. et al. (the RISE Consortium)
February 15 2023
Ebony Goldman joins us as a new Lab Manager. Most recently she worked at NYU’s NeLLab with Dr. Liina Pylkkänen. Welcome, Ebony!
January 22 2023
New paper out in Language Learning and Development. Shi, H., He, A. X., Song, H., Jin, K., & Arunachalam, S. Learning verbs in English and Korean: The roles of word order and argument drop. https://doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2023.2165926