Bilingualism Matters opened in Pennsylvania, USA, in December 2014, hosted by the the Center for Language Science (CLS) at the Pennsylvania State University.
Branch aims
The Center for Language Science is home to a rich cross-disciplinary research program on the science of bilingualism throughout the lifespan from a range of perspectives, including experimental psycholinguistics, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and speech pathology.
The goal of our branch of Bilingualism Matters is to share the most exciting new findings about bilingualism with the public and particularly in contexts in which the use of two or more languages may be misunderstood.
Get in touch
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The Penn State team
Dr. Frances Blanchette
Branch coordinator
Dr Frances Blanchette is Assistant Director at the Center for Language Science.
Research interests: Syntax, (micro-)syntactic variation, English varieties (especially Appalachian), psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingualism.
Dr. Frances BlanchetteBranch coordinator
Dr. Paula Dussias
Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Dr. Paula (Giuli) Dussias is Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology and a member of the Center for Language Science.
Research interests: Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, sentence parsing, code-switching, second language acquisition
Dr. Paula DussiasProfessor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Dr. Matthew CarlsonAssistant Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
Katharine Donnelly Adams
Post-doctoral researcher
Katharine Donnelly Adams is a post-doctoral research in the Bilingualism and Language Development Lab at the Center for Language Science.
Katharine Donnelly AdamsPost-doctoral researcher
Jill PutnamAssistant Director, The Child Care Center at Hort Woods
Kimberly BrownAssistant Director, The Bennett Family Center
Anne Beatty-Martínez
PhD student
Anne Beatty-Martínez is a PhD student in Spanish and Language Science.
Research Interests: Bilingual language processing; codeswitching; cross-language priming effects
Anne Beatty-MartínezPhD student
Hyoun-A Joo
PhD student
Hyoun-A Joo is a studying for a PhD in German Linguistics and Language Science in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Research interests: adult second language learners; language acquisition; interface of syntax, morphology, and semantics.
