Development
Shared Parental Responsiveness and Child Development Among Families with Low Income
Tools in Intonational Phonology can highlight the nature of prosody in Japanese children with ASD: Dissociating linguistic and para-linguistic aspects of intonation
Effects of Social Diversity on Early Attention, Perception, and Learning
LSLT: Upon Reflection. This semester, we've asked presenters to give reflective talks about their most prominent work from the past. How did they understand the question then, and how do they see it now? See the full lineup here! Lunch will be served starting at 12:15. Vegetarian options available. Let us know if you have other dietary restrictions!
The Language Science Center awarded Ama Arhin an undergraduate research fellowship for spring 2023.
Supporting Contexts, Individual Differences, and Systems to Improve the Impact of Math Instruction and Intervention
Zoom link: https://umd.zoom.us/my/zoeovans
Developmental Parsing and Cognitive Control
Modeling children's acquisition of speech acts and clause types
This project investigates how children come to associate clause types with their canonical function, and in particular, interrogatives to questions. We examined speech acts and clause types in speech to children. I will first report some of the results from our corpus study, and then discuss our plans to model the learning process computationally, and how we are going to use Robustly-optimized BERT approach (RoBERTa) to assist the annotation process.
The role of early experiences on the neurobiology of language and literacy development