Meet the AP Editorial Team
Rachel Hayes-Harb, Editor
phonetics and phonology, speech perception, multilingualism, adult second language acquisition, word learning, lexical processing, Arabic, English
I am a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utah. My research focuses on a variety of phenomena related to the acquisition of the phonology of a second language (L2) by adult learners, specifically the development of L2 phoneme inventories and L2 phonolexical structure. My research typically involves experimental investigations of the perception of L2 sounds and the influence of various types of linguistic experience on L2 phonological development.
Associate Editors
María Carlo
bilingualism, academic vocabulary, language development, latinx education, cross- language transfer
Maria Carlo is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida in the Department of Child and Family Studies. She joined USF in 2017 as part of the USF Rightpath Research and Innovation Center. Maria specializes in bilingualism and literacy development in children and adults. Maria’s research focuses on the cognitive processes underlying reading in a second language. She is also interested in generating educational interventions that support first- and second-language development, particularly around vocabulary.
Anne Cook
adult reading comprehension, sentence processing, eye tracking, and discourse
I am a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah. My research focuses on the cognitive processes involved in adult reading comprehension. This research is grounded in theories of memory retrieval, in that basic memory processes can be used to explain complex phenomena that occur during reading. Phenomena investigated in my lab include reactivation and validation of text contents, the role of general world knowledge in comprehension, inference generation, conceptual components of word processing, and figurative language comprehension.
Francesca Foppolo
sentence processing, eye tracking, typical and atypical language development, bilingualism, semantics and pragmatics
I am an Associate Professor of Psycholinguistics in the Department of Psychology of the University of Milan-Bicocca. I study language processing in typically and atypically developing children, bilinguals, and adults by means of off-line and on-line techniques, particularly eye-tracking in visual context and reading. My research focuses on the processing of morphological cues (such as gender/number agreement); syntactic complexity and syntactic ambiguity and the use of parsing heuristics in processing; semantics and pragmatics of conversations (particularly, inferred and presupposed content).
Amanda Huensch
oral fluency, pronunciation instruction, speech perception and production, English, Spanish, French
I am Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. My research examines second language speech development in and outside of the classroom, including the relationship between perception and production, L2 fluency development and attrition, and foreign language instructors’ beliefs and practices related to pronunciation. Currently, I am exploring the linguistic features that contribute to intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness in beginning adult foreign language learners with a goal of better understanding the relationship among these constructs and how it develops over time.
Rafał Jończyk
bilingualism, emotion, creativity, foreign language effect, EEG/ERP, brain oscillations, Polish, English, Italian
I am an assistant professor at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and director of the Psychophysiology of Language and Affect (PoLA) lab. The main questions that guide my research concern the brain dynamics of language-emotion interactions, bilingualism, and creativity. I am also interested in how language shapes the way we perceive the world around us.
Ethan Kutlu
speech perception, sociophonetics, network science, corpus linguistics, multilingualism, heritage bilingualism, translinguistics, EEG, eye tracking, Turkish
I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department and an incoming Assistant Professor to the Linguistics and Psychological and Brain Sciences Departments at the University of Iowa. My research focuses on language development in multilingual communities and how the perception of multilinguals is impacted by attitudes, exposure to languages, and other socio-cognitive mechanisms. I use a variety of psycholinguistic and electrophysiological tools to explore the crossroads of language, cognition, and society.
Natalia Meir
bilingualism, morpho-syntax, heritage language development, Developmental Language Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder
I am a senior lecturer at the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, where I also serve as a Coordinator for Linguistics in Clinical Research Program. My research interests cover monolingual and bilingual typical and atypical language development (including Autism Spectrum Disorder, Developmental Language Disorder, Hearing Impairment). I am exploring the relationship between language and cognition. I am also investigating Heritage Language development and maintenance across the lifespan with a goal to understand which linguistic and extra-linguistic factors shape child and adult Heritage Language grammars.
Joan C. Mora
phonetics and phonology, speech perception and production, speaking fluency, pronunciation learning and teaching, instructed second language acquisition, individual differences.
I am associate professor in the department of Modern Languages and Literatures and English Studies at the University of Barcelona (UB) in Spain. I am interested in understanding how contextual and individual factors shape L2 speech learning. My current research interests focus on the role of cognitive and emotional individual differences in L2 speech learning and speaking fluency, phonetic training methods, phonological learning in the mental lexicon, and task-based pronunciation teaching and learning in instructed SLA.
Filip Smolík
language acquisition, lexical acquisition, acquisition of grammar, imageability, language impairments
I am a psycholinguist at the Institute of Psychology of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and I teach at the Department of Linguistics, Charles University. My main interest is the early acquisition and representation of grammatical and lexical knowledge. I also study effects of imageability in language acquisition and processing, relations between social cognition and language acquisition, especially in personal pronouns, and the relations between effects of memory and linguistic knowledge on various language tasks. I also participate in the development of assessment tools for early language, and work on more general questions of child development and longitudinal research.
Arhonto Terzi
syntactic theory, syntax-pragmatics interface, language acquisition, autism, aphasia
I am a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Speech and Language Therapy of the University of Patras, Greece. I am interested in the study of language as a cognitive capacity, and have been investigating the principles that underlie various areas of the syntax component, how these principles are acquired by children, and how they are affected in atypical development (autism and specific language impairment) and language breakdown (aphasia and Parkinson).
Alayo Tripp
phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, speech perception, word learning, epistemic trust, multilingualism, gender, developmental psychology
I am a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. My research characterizes differences in language knowledge and processing arising from social experience, and explores the significance of social beliefs in shaping linguistic behavior throughout the lifespan.
Seth Wiener
second language acquisition, speech perception, lexical representation and access, phonetics & phonology, speech production, bilingualism
I am Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Chinese Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University. My research program involves experimental investigations of spoken languages. Specifically, I explore the nature of the cognitive processes and representations that enable native and non-native listeners to understand language and recognize spoken words. I make use of a variety of psycholinguistic methods to examine speech perception and lexical processing in adult monolinguals, bilinguals, and second language learners.
Peng Zhou
typical language development, neurodevelopmental language disorders, language and cognitive development in autism, sentence processing, eye tracking, Mandarin
I am an Associate Professor of Developmental Psycholinguistics in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures and Director of the Child Cognition Lab at Tsinghua University. My research looks at language and conceptual development in both typical and atypical populations. I tackle this problem using a range of converging approaches, including cross-linguistic investigations and behavioral and neuroimaging techniques. Current research in our lab compares language and cognitive development in typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder, with the aim to address some of the key questions related to the nature of language and the nature of cognition.