People

Meet the members of the Child Language Lab!

Principal Investigator & Lab Director

Professor Jenny Singleton is the new lab director since Fall 2018

 

Lab Alumni

  • Dr. Suzanne van der Feest – Lab director 2014 – 2018. Dr. Van der Feest is now at The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, where she runs the Developmental Speech Perception Lab.
  • Dr. Colin Bannard – Lab director and founder of the Child Language Lab. Dr. Bannard is now at the University of Liverpool.
  • Dr. Cindy Blanco – graduate student, PhD 2016. Graduate Student Lab Manager. Dr. Blanco now works at Duolingo. She currently collaborates with Dr. Smiljanic and Dr. Van der Feest on a project investigating the influence of speaking style on children’s word recognition.

Graduate Students and Visiting Scholars

  • Dr. Hoyoung Yi – CSD graduate student, PhD 2017
  • Dr. Jörn Klinger – graduate student, PhD 2015
  • Dr. Luiz Chacártegui Quetglas – graduate student, PhD 2014
  • Dr. Nick Gaylord – graduate student, PhD 2013
  • Frances Cooley – current (2018) PhD student in Linguistics
  • Dr. Katharina Mucha – visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017
  • Jael Bootsma, M.A. – visiting Researcher 2017-2018, current PhD student at McMaster University

Undergraduate Alumni 2017 – 2018

  • Rui Akaike – Honors Student and recipient of Kuhn Intellectual Entrepreneurship Award, graduated December 2017
  • Allison Thomas – CSD / Bridging Disciplines student, graduated 2018, now a graduate student at UT Dallas
  • Nicole Parson – CSD / Linguistics major
  • Lauren Wagner – Linguistics / Neuroscience major
  • Audrey Snow – Linguistics / European studies major
  • Lindsay Palmer – CSD / Linguistics major
  • Grace Lundstrom – Linguistics / Spanish major
  • Alison Van Alen – Linguistics / English major
  • Laura Nagy – Linguistics / CSD major, exchange student and intern in Brussels, Belgium, Spring 2018

Undergraduate Alumni 2014 – 2016

  • Suzanne Stiles – graduated in CSD, now a graduate student at Vanderbilt University
  • Amanda Clark – graduated in CSD, now a graduate student at the University of Houston
  • Emily Ford  – graduated in Linguistics, now a graduate student at UT El Paso
  • AnnaLissa Garcia – graduated in CSD, now a graduate student at UT Dallas
  • Carly Miller – graduated in CSD, now a graduate student at TCU
  • Samantha Moses – graduated in CSD, now a graduate student at UT Austin
  • Chloé Gomez – graduated in Linguistics 2018, now studying sign language
  • Aaron Quach – graduated in Linguistics 2018
  • Brianna Cooley – graduated in CSD 2017
  • Arielle Tamez – graduated in Linguistics 2017
  • Danielle Parsons – graduated in Linguistics 2015