NLL celebrated the end of the school year with a bowling party at the UW HUB Games. We also celebrated our new graduates, who all have something exciting lined up for them: Claire and Charisse will join the Speech and Hearing Sciences MS program at UW, Xinyue will join Asian Languages and Literature MA program at UW, and Alex will join the ASL interpretation MA program at Gallaudet. Congratulations to all!
Dr. Qi Cheng recently published a paper entitled ‘Resolving syntactic-semantic conflicts: comprehension and processing patterns by deaf Chinese readers’ with her co-authors Karen Xu Yan (former UW CLMS student, currently at UCLA), Lujia Yang (former lab volunteer, currently at U Alberta), and Dr. Hao Lin (Shanghai International Studies University) in the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (JDSDE). This paper combined comprehension judgments and self-paced reading to examine the processing mechanisms of hearing and deaf readers and found that deaf readers endure more processing burden while resolving conflicting syntactic and semantic cues, regardless of their comprehension strategies. You can check out the paper here: https://academic.oup.com/jdsde/article-abstract/29/3/396/7618659?login=false
Dr. Qi Cheng and her collaborator Dr. Christina Zhao from UW SPHSC recently received a $40,000 grant from UW Royalty Research Fund (RRF) to study visual mismatch responses among deaf and hearing signers. You can read more about the project here: ASL mismatch responses in MEG
We are looking for deaf and hearing proficient signers to join our study! Please fill in the form here if you are interested: tinyurl.com/aslmeg
First year graduate student Yuting Zhang recently presented her work on Hong Kong Sign Language compounds at the 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL‐29) at Macau University of Science and Technology. She was also selected as one of the four finalists for the ‘Young Scholar Award’ competition. Congratulations, Yuting!
Undergraduate RAs Claire, Charisse, Gillian, and Xinyue have been taking EEG trainings with Dr. Mark Pettet from UW Psychology during spring quarter. photo credit Victoria Hennessy.
Dr. Qi Cheng has a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)! You can read it here. More details of the study can be found at the project webpage: How does early language experience shape the brain?
Cheng, Q., Roth, A., Halgren, E., Klein, D., Chen, J. K., & Mayberry, R. I. (2023). Restricted language access during childhood affects adult brain structure in selective language regions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2215423120.
Our first year graduate student, Yuting Zhang, just presented a poster on her masters thesis, ‘Compounding in Hong Kong Sign Language’, at the High Desert Linguistics Society (HDLS) in Albuquerque, New Mexico!
Our undergraduate RA, Jessie Zeng, just presented a poster on ‘Grammatical attainment by deaf English learners with and without early sign language support as compared to hearing L2 learners’ at the Boston University Conference on Language Development (BUCLD) on Nov. 5th! Great job, Jessie!
We had so much fun at the DeafNation Expo Seattle on Nov. 5 at Seattle Center! The lab had a booth with study promotion materials (flyers, intake forms, swags) right next to the UW ASL program booth. A lot of people stopped by our booth and learned about our research, and many signed up to participate in future studies. Hope to connect with the community again soon!
Happy Fall quarter! We will be meeting in person at GUG415L (the ling conference room) for our bi-weekly lab meetings, and all are welcome! Here is our tentative schedule for this quarter: