Bilingualism and Language Development Lab

We are into week 3 of testing child second language processing onsite at Young Scholars of Western PA Charter School. It has been great to be here!

Some serious brain science at Young Scholars of Western Pennsylvania today!

Excited to welcome new students to the Brain Bus!

Come join us as we begin the Center for Language Science at Penn State's Lecture Series this weekend! Saturday, April 7, Richard Page and Mike Putnam will be discussing "Language Contact."

We are very excited to share that our “Topics in Language Science” lecture series begins this Saturday, April 7th! This event will be held every Saturday in April, from 10:00-11:30 a.m. in 100 Thomas Building, and will feature leading scholars in the Language Sciences. Our very own Dr. Richard Page and Dr. Mike Putnam will present the first lecture “Language Contact”.

The series will continue every Saturday in April. We will feature lectures from Dr. Michele Diaz on language and aging, Dr. Janet van Hell on bilingualism, and Dr. Dennis Preston (Oklahoma State Univ.) on language and society. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

This event is free and open to the public, and all are welcome! If you’re unable to attend in person, the lectures can be viewed live at http://live.libraries.psu.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/8376d4b24dd1457ea3bfe4cf9163feda21.

Former CLS BiLD Lab post-doc Dr. Sarah Grey and colleagues have released some exciting new findings that suggest that being bilingual facilitates the acquisition of additional languages. For more information on this research, check out the article from the Georgetown University Medical Center here:

https://gumc.georgetown.edu/news/Does_Being_Bilingual_Help_Your_Brain_Learn_Additional_Languages

If Your Child is Bilingual, Learning Additional Languages Later Might be Easier

A lovely evening at SCASD's ESL Summer Picnic.

A lovely family picnic

Spreading the word about bilingualism research at The Bennett Family Center's International Picnic

Did you know that our sweet Twiggle van has been driving around Central PA for over 10 years? A bit of Spring Cleaning today, and we head out tomorrow to spend the last month of the school year with our favorite people: students, teachers, and families. Look for us at YSCP and Delta Middle in the coming weeks!

Dr. van Hell and former postdoc Dr. Grey's work on foreign accented speech processing is featured in PSU news. Check it out: http://news.psu.edu/story/463139/2017/04/20/research/recognizing-foreign-accents-helps-brains-process-accented-speech?utm_source=newswire&utm_medium=email&utm_term=463901_HTML&utm_content=04-20-2017-21-35&utm_campaign=Penn%20State%20Today

Recognizing foreign accents helps brains process accented speech | Penn State University Our brains process foreign-accented speech with better real-time accuracy if we can identify the accent we hear, according to a team of neurolinguists.

Our colleague and collaborator, Ping Li, is interviewed by François Grosjean in Psychology Today.

What is Different in the Bilingual Brain? An interview with Ping Li

Postdoc Katharine Donnelly-Adams and graduate student Fatemeh Abdollahi presented fresh of the press data tonight

The BiLD lab is currently attending the CNS conference in San Francisco. Today Kaitlyn Litcofsky presented a poster on her dissertation project.