1. We are conducting computer-assisted analyses of children's and parents' conversations (with thanks to the CHILDES database developed by Brian MacWhinney) to determine the abstractness of children's early syntactic representations and the extent to which children are influenced by highly frequent combinations in their parents' speech. We welcome students who have appropriate coding skills and an interest in children’s first utterances: are they genuinely syntactic or only (more or less accurate) copies of the input?
2. We are looking for monolingual 15- to 22-month-olds whose multi-word speech seems to be rapidly developing. We welcome students who have both coding skills and transcribing skills.
2. We are examining the relation between bilingualism and higher cognitive processes.
1. We are updating our gender tutorials. See the first video - on gender schemas - here. Students with an interest in creating videos that will help the understanding of gender, ethnicity, and diversity are welcome to apply to the project of creating more tutorials.
2. We are surveying people of varying ethnicities and genders to determine how they assign characteristics to women, men, and themselves.