That's a wrap on Language Science Day 2024!

Thank you to everyone who attended our 14th annual Language Science Day!

Language Science Day (LSD) is a signature annual event for Maryland's language science community, bringing together around 150 students and faculty from across the university and affiliated centers. Hosted in the LSC at 2130 HJ Patterson Hall, participants get to know their fellow language scientists, exchange ideas, showcase their research, and discover opportunities for training or collaboration. 
 

Schedule

Sessions and Speakers

Breakout Sessions • 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Room 1102: Learning and education

Individual differences in mobile-assisted language learning: What do we know so far?
Ekaterina Sudina

Linking language acquisition to law creation: The passage of Maryland’s 2024 Credit for All Language Learning Act
Drew S. Fagan

Supporting Comprehensive, School-Based Oral and Written Language Practice through Writing Curriculum-Based Measurement
Emily Reno

Examining how parental beliefs about bilingualism shape children's language environments and language skills
Alexus G. Ramirez

Room 2123: Language and cognition

Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Sentence Production Impairment in Aphasia
Yi Wei

The Conceptual Structure of Human Relationships Across Modern Cultures
Haroon Popal

LMs are not good proxies for language learners
Katherine Howitt, Sathvik Nair, Allison Dods, Robert Melvin Hopkins

Rooms 2114 & 2118: Panel on community-engaged research

Panelists:

• Yi Ting Huang (HESP, MLSC)
• Stefanie Kuchinsky (Walter Reed)
• Melinda Martin-Beltran (TLPL)
• Jennifer Myers (HESP)

Poster Session 1 (2:00 - 3:00 PM)

Enhancing Written Word Production in a Foreign Script: The Impact of Visual Orthographic Sequences
Xianglin Zhang, Yi Dai, Min Wang

Child Gender Differences in Identifying Vocal Emotions
Sasha Sweat, Rochelle. Newman

Summer Research in the Language Development Lab
Diana Reyes, Makayla Dizon, Rochelle Newman

Text, pictures, or audio? An eye-tracking study investigating the effect of multimodality on L2 reading comprehension
Tetiana Tytko, Bronson Hui, Nick Pandža

Exploring Language Breakdown and Recovery in Aphasia
Seongsil Lee, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah

The Language Science Station at Planet Word
Ge (Stella) Huang, Charlotte Vaughn, and the Language Science Station team

The Hatchlings Project: Community-Library Partnerships to Reduce Childhood Literacy Inequities
Ellie K. Taylor-Robinette, Carrie Sanders, Betsy Diamant-Cohen, and Rachel R. Romeo

Reducing bias when assessing language in preschoolers who speak African-American English
Nan Ratner, Carly Rosvold

Challenges with mixed-neurotype conversations in the workplace
Shevaun Lewis, Quentin Leifer, Kathy Dow-Burger, Aparajita Rao, Ira Kraemer, Andrea Zukowski

New Participant Registry: Communication Across the Lifespan
James Harvey

Poster Session 2 (3:00 - 4:00 PM)

Information Tracking and Inference-making in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury
Erica Wu, Jared Novick, Kelly Marshall

Input + ? = Grammar
Yuanfan Ying, Imane Bou-Saboun, Katherine Howitt, Lydia Quevado, Allison Dods, Elizabeth Swanson, Nate Frenkel, Jeff Lidz, Valentine Hacquard, Alexander Williams

Evaluating meaningful differences in learning and communication across socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds
Yi Ting Huang, Sophie Domanski, Megan Kanaby, Jonet Artis, Rhosean Asmah, Arynn Byrd

Contextual Factors in Bilingual Language Sample Analysis
Jessica Nolasco, José Ortiz, Yi Ting Huang

Still Soaring: Year 2 of the Preschool Language and Neural Engagement Study (PLANES)
Alicia Mortimer, Rachel R. Romeo, & The LEAD Lab Team

Why speaking is easier than listening
Allison Dods, Utku Turk, Sathvik Nair, Carmen Tang, Sebastian Mancha, London Dixon, Katherine Howitt, Rosa Lee, Colin Phillips

Priming compound production in EEG
Clara Cuonzo, Ellen Lau, Allison Macdonald

Current research snapshots from the Language and Music Cognition Lab
Bob Slevc, Rachel Thompson, Kelly Marshall, Mine Muezzinoglu

Look Away! Phoneme Detection with a Persean Listening Target
John H.G. Scott

Understanding Trust in Machine Translation (MT): A Language Science Station Study at Planet Word
Dayeon (Zoey) Ki, Yimin Xiao, Yongle Zhang, Marine Carpuat, Ge Gao, Charlotte Vaughn, Calvin Bao, Marianna Martindale