Current Research Projects
Identifying Oral Language Profiles and Changes in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners
This project studies the heterogeneity in Spanish-speaking DLLs’ complex syntax and morphological skills and establishes dual language profiles among this population. Changes in profile characteristics and DLLs’ profile members are also investigated.
Related Publications and Presentations
- Jing, L., Smith, J., & Hammer, C. S. (in preparation). Identifying Oral Language Profiles and Changes in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners.
- Jing, L., Smith, J., & Hammer, C. S. (2024). Identifying Oral Language Profiles and Changes in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners. [Oral Presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading 31st Annual Conference. Copenhagen, Demark.
- Jing, L., Smith, J., & Hammer, C. S. (2024). Identifying Language Profiles in Spanish-English Dual Language Learners. [Poster Presentation]. XVIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language. Prague, Czech Republic.
Priming the Production of Relative Clauses in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
This project compares relative clause production in monolingual English-speaking children and bilingual Mandarin-English speaking children and investigate whether elicitation methods (structural priming vs. referential communication) influence production.
Related Publications and Presentations
- Jing, L., & Reuterskiöld, C. (under review). Felicitous Context and the Elicitation of Relative Clauses in Yong School-Aged Children. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology.
- Jing, L., Reuterskiöld, C. (in preparation). Priming the Production of Relative Clauses in Monolingual and Bilingual Children.
Completed Projects
Listener Perception of Speech Accuracy in Children with Speech Sound Disorders
Finding a consistent approach to judging speech production accuracy is challenging for clinicians who assess and treat children with a range of speech sound disorders. This study evaluates the reliability of an existing 3-point rating scale using a large group of speech-language pathologists as raters. Preliminary results show that SLPs reached substantial agreements with the consensus rating. Productions with major errors have a higher inter-rater agreement than productions with minor errors among SLPs. Vowel distortion errors were more challenging for SLPs to reach an agreement than consonant errors involving a change in the place or manner feature.
Related Publications and Presentations
Jung, L., Jing, L., Grigos, M.I. (2022). Graduate Student Clinicians’ Perceptions of Child Speech Sound Errors. Perspectives of ASHA Special Interest Groups, 7(4), 1275-1283.
Jing, L., Grigos, M.I. (2022). Listener Ratings of Speech Accuracy in Children with Speech Sound Disorders. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 31(1), 419-430.
Jing, L., Grigos, M.I., (2018). Listener Perception of Speech Accuracy in Children with Speech Sound Disorders. Poster presented at 2018 ASHA Convention, Boston, MA.
Rhyme Awareness in Children with Cochlear Implants:
Investigating the Effect of a Degraded Auditory System on Language and Literacy Development
Rhyme awareness is one component of phonological awareness skills, which are important prerequisites for children’s literacy development. This project investigates whether rhyme awareness in children with cochlear implants is subject to the neighborhood density effect in the same way as it does in typically developing children. This project is supported by the Emerging Research Grants of the Hearing Health Foundation. See the project page on Research Gate.
Related Publications and Presentations
Jing, L., Vermeire, K., Mangino, A., & Reuterskiöld, C. (2019). Rhyme Awareness in Children With Normal Hearing and Children With Cochlear Implants: An Exploratory Study. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2072. [link]
Jing, L., Reutersköild, C., (2019). The influence of individual differences, statistical properties and linguistic properties on children’s rhyme awareness. Poster presented at the 40th Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorder, Madison, WI. (Recipient of the NIH student travel award)
Research Experience
2022 – Present Post Doctoral Researcher, Developing Language and Literacy Lab
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Teachers College, Columbia University
PI: Carol Scheffner Hammer, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, FASHA
2015 – 2022 Graduate Research Assistant, Small Talk Lab, (lab manager till 2017)
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, New York University
Advisor: Christina Reuterskiöld, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
▪ Conducted research on language learning in children with hearing impairment
▪ Collaborated with the research team on projects studying ASD, DLD and bilingual language development
▪ Coordinated lab meetings, journal clubs, maintained lab website and Facebook page
2017 – 2021 Graduate Research Assistant, Motor Speech Lab
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, New York University
Advisor: Maria Grigos, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
▪ Conducted research on SLPs’ speech judgements and Childhood Apraxia of Speech
▪ Mentored an undergraduate student on her honor’s thesis and advised other students
2010 – 2012 Graduate Research Assistant, Crosslinguistic Influence and Working Memory Capacity
Dept. of Linguistics, Ohio University, Advisors: Scott Jarvis, Ph.D. (Now at University of Utah), Michelle O’Malley, Ph.D., and Liang Tao, Ph.D.
2009 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dialectological Investigation in Fujian
Dept. of Chinese Linguistic, Fudan University, Advisor: Huan Tao, Ph.D.