SLA seminar: Mike Johns (ARLIS)

Email Tetiana Tytko (ttytko@umd.edu) for the Zoom link.

Integrating Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics in the Study of Bilingual Speech

Abstract: What happens in the lab does not always align with what happens in spontaneous production, and vice versa. Recently, there has been a push to use sociolinguistic data to test psycholinguistic models of language production and to use psycholinguistic methods to examine hypotheses that stem from spontaneous production. In this presentation, I will discuss two studies that do exactly this. In the first study, I will present data from a spoken corpus of Spanish-English bilingual speech and how it can be brought to bear on recent proposals on speech planning. In the second study, I will present evidence from a language processing task that challenges existing notions of what does and does not constitute a codeswitch.

Bio: Michael (Mike) Johns is currently a post-doctoral research associate at ARLIS, and the primary project with which he is involved focuses on how neurostimulation modulates lexical tone learning. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Penn State University, and his dissertation focused on the production and processing of Spanish-English codeswitched speech.