Bilingualism and Language Development Lab

11/15/2018

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!

10/31/2018

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

10/24/2018

Excited to welcome new students to the Brain Bus!

04/06/2018

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.

10/03/2017

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

06/07/2017

A lovely evening at SCASD's ESL Summer Picnic.

05/10/2017

A lovely family picnic

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

05/01/2017

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!

04/21/2017

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

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.

04/04/2017

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

An interview with Ping Li

03/27/2017

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

03/26/2017

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