UPenn Language Learning Lab

03/18/2021

Help Penn researchers with child development studies over the internet, from the comfort of your home! Your child will watch some fun videos while their looking patterns are recorded from your we**am. The study lasts about 10 minutes. Receive a $10 gift card for participation.

Sign up here:

Thanks for your interest! To participate in this study, your child must be between the ages of 2 and 4 years, typically developing, and learning English as their primary language in the home. If your child has been diagnosed with any hearing, vision, or learning difficulties, please first email us

03/08/2021

What happens to speech after entering a listener's mind? In a new paper, Spencer Caplan (https://spencercaplan.org), John Trueswell (https://web.sas.upenn.edu/trueswell-lab) and Alon Hafri (https://alonhafri.wixsite.com/home) show that understanding speech involves no retention of the acoustic signal over time.

Link to the paper:https://6b1f1e6e-7ab8-4743-a462-2549e0b5b1d6.filesusr.com/ugd/5e8468_6d71b2cfb2614054927b848bda7a7f59.pdf

Journal copy: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620968787

I am also a Ph.D candidate (entered 2015) in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania where I'm advised by Charles Yang and Mitch Marcus, and a member of the Language Development and Language Processing Lab in the Department of Psychology with John Trueswell. My dissertation, The...

03/01/2021

Registration is now open for the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing on Thursday, March 4th!

To access the conference you will need a CUNY 2021 website account.

Registration is free.
To register, please fill out the following google form:
https://forms.gle/RrET5Ex6XUuzyk4s6

Thanks to our organizing committee for making this possible.
John Trueswell (Chair), Delphine Dahan, Anna Papafragou, Gareth Roberts, Katheryn Schuler, Florian Schwarz, and Charles Yang.

If you have any questions please email us at [email protected]. We hope to see you there!

02/11/2021

Signing Black in America is a documentary about Black American Sign Language, a unique dialect of American Sign Language (ASL).

"The film aims to foster an understanding of the socio-cultural role of language, the history of Black ASL, creating awareness of Black ASL and the Black Deaf community, and raising awareness about language stereotypes and prejudices."

The documentary is available all month (February 2021).

*This video has embedded subtitles in English. We recommend you TURN OFF youTube's automatic closed captions so they don't interfere*Just like spoken languag...

02/05/2021

Check out Victor Gomes and Alex de Carvalho's interview with Lila Gleitman!

http://www.lscp.net/persons/decarvalho/Articles/Gomes_&_de_Carvalho_2019.pdf

Lila is a leading researcher in language acquisition. Best known for her work in syntactic bootstrapping, the process of using syntactic cues to learn the meaning of new words. In this interview, Lila shares how she arrived at this hypothesis, her thoughts on the current state of the field, and questions that remain unanswered.

01/27/2021

Please join us on Thursday, March 4th, for the 34th CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing!

The theme of the Special Session is
Language Acquisition and Language Processing: Finding New Connections, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Invited Speakers:
Anne Christophe, École Normale Supérieure
Cynthia L. Fisher, University of Illinois
Jeffery Lidz, University of Maryland
Christopher Manning, Stanford University
Elissa Newport, Georgetown University
Linda Smith, Indiana University

Thanks to our organizing committee for making this possible.
John Trueswell (Chair), Delphine Dahan, Anna Papafragou, Gareth Roberts, Kathryn Schuler, Florian Schwarz, and Charles Yang.

If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] or visit our website https://web.sas.upenn.edu/cuny2021/. We hope to see you there!

05/31/2019

Looking for a fun and interesting activity for your child this summer?

For less than 30 minutes of your time, we’ll pay you $20 (+ parking/travel expenses) to visit our lab at Penn and participate in one of our studies consisting of playing fun games with your child!

Sign up here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/trueswell-lab/participate/


Or, give us a call at 215-898-0327

05/30/2019

We're very excited to announce that our wonderful postdoc, Alex de Carvalho, just got a a tenured position as an Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of Paris Descartes - Sorbonne University! We're going to miss him very much but are looking forward to having an excuse to visit Paris more often :)

04/17/2019

Do you want to help science research? Visit our lab and have your child play a short, fun game!

Looking for 1 to 3 year-old children for fun science research at UPenn.

Help us understand the developing mind by playing a fun and quick game with your child
-Appointments take less than 30 minutes and consist of watching some interactive videos.
-We are located at UPenn's campus in University City, Philadelphia

You can sign up online by clicking here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/trueswell-lab/participate/
You can also call us 215-898-0327 at or send us an email at [email protected]