LABL is currently examining how bilingual adults are influenced by their native language while listening to second language sounds and words. Our findings thus far demonstrate that the two languages within the bilingual mind interact and are inseparable.

We are also conducting a study to measure whether a clay-based language stimulation program with young children, ages 2-5, is effective in improving vocabulary and oral language skills. The ultimate goals of this study are to 1) implement an intervention program for monolingual and bilingual children with a variety of language disorders; and 2) to examine whether the language intervention is beneficial for cognitive abilities (e.g., executive functions), given the domain-general link between language and cognition.

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Current LABL Members

PI: Max Freeman
Graduate students: Sabrina Corbett, Daisy Criollo, Jaqueline Lemus, Vaneiqua Wilson
Undergraduate students: Sara Kurutz, Natalie Jordan, Maria Tumminaro

Current Collaborators

Scott Schroeder Hofstra University
Viorica Marian Northwestern University
Henrike Blumenfeld San Diego State University
Matthew Carlson Penn State University
Hinda Rubin Claynguage

Lab alumni

Christina Blackman, Naomi Charles, Christina Masiakos, Outhura Rahming, Michaela Tadros, Haley van Den Berg