UPenn Language Learning Lab

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.

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Children's Online Sentence Processing - The Language Learning Lab 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

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

Spencer Caplan – Linguist 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...

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).

Signing Black in America - more about this project at www.talkingblackinamerica.org *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...

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.

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

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 :)