To our amazing lab manager, Michelle Indarjit, who is taking the GRE on her birthday today:
Have a GREeeat day!
We’re all so excited to be here at Hands-On Transportation, hosted by Imagination Station!
We’ll be here until the event ends! Swing by to say hello, and check out some awesome vehicles!!
It's not quite autumn yet... However, we know the pumpkin spice is officially in the air, and that's good enough for us!
In any case, it's always a great time to get involved with research at Purdue, especially here at the LLAMA Lab!
Sign up (link below) or comment below to learn more!
www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/registry.html
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Hello LLAMA Lab lovers!
We’re here at Mosey Down Main Street!
Stop by to say hello! We’re here until 9PM tonight here in Downtown Lafayette!
We're back with Word Wednesday!
This week's word is an adjective. Feckless!
Definition: Lazy and irresponsible
Sentence: Our research assistants here at the LLAMA Lab are truly the opposite of feckless! We pride ourselves on our fantastically productive and hard-working group of students!
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We're excited for the semester ahead! Enjoy those last few days of summer break!
Hooray for Justin!Justin Kueser received F-31 funding from the NIDCD with mentorship from Dr. Larry Leonard. His study will examine how children with developmental language disorders understand passive sentences. This information is needed to develop effective treatments to help children’s comprehension of language. Big Congratulations Justin!
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It's another Double Word Wednesday!
This week's words are: Vindictive (adj.) & Vindicate (v.)
Vindictive: Strong, unreasoning desire for revenge
Vindicate: To prove one's self right/To clear someone from blame
The detective originally believed that the person--and possible suspect--in question had a vindictive side. However, that same person was later vindicated due to being completely innocent.
We'll be back next week with more vocabulary words!
18-month-olds typically say at least a few words and understand many more – but each toddler says their own unique set of words. Does a toddler’s unique “word set” change how they understand spoken words? We explored this question in the lab, in a study where toddlers viewed pairs of everyday objects, while we named one of the objects. Sometimes, the object pairs were not related to each other (like CAR and DOG) and other times they were related (like CAR and AIRPLANE). When the objects were related, it was harder for toddlers with more “connected” vocabularies to pick out the right word. This finding gives us more clues about how children learn to build their vocabularies and suggest it is important for children to learn words, and their connections to other word meanings. We are now exploring how these skills and connections change between the ages of 2 and 3 – more exciting discoveries to report soon!
Check out our paper in PLoS One –it’s freely available for everyone to read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219290
Want to get involved? We are always looking for families and children to take part in exciting studies about language learning. Send our lab a message on facebook, email us at: llamalab@purdue.edu – or sign up to hear about studies in the Purdue Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences registry here: www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/registry.html
Vocabulary size and structure affects real-time lexical recognition in 18-month-olds
The mature lexicon encodes semantic relations between words, and these connections can alternately facilitate and interfere with language processing. We explore the emergence of these processing dynamics in 18-month-olds (N = 79) using a novel approach that calculates individualized semantic structu...18-month-olds typically say at least a few words and understand many more – but each toddler says their own unique set of words. Does a toddler’s unique “word set” change how they understand spoken words? We explored this question in the lab, in a study where toddlers viewed pairs of everyday objects, while we named one of the objects. Sometimes, the object pairs were not related to each other (like CAR and DOG) and other times they were related (like CAR and AIRPLANE). When the objects were related, it was harder for toddlers with more “connected” vocabularies to pick out the right word. This finding gives us more clues about how children learn to build their vocabularies and suggest it is important for children to learn words, and their connections to other word meanings. We are now exploring how these skills and connections change between the ages of 2 and 3 – more exciting discoveries to report soon!
Check out our paper in PLoS One –it’s freely available for everyone to read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0219290
Want to get involved? We are always looking for families and children to take part in exciting studies about language learning. Send our lab a message on facebook, email us at: llamalab@purdue.edu – or sign up to hear about studies in the Purdue Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences registry here: www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/registry.html
Vocabulary size and structure affects real-time lexical recognition in 18-month-olds
The mature lexicon encodes semantic relations between words, and these connections can alternately facilitate and interfere with language processing. We explore the emergence of these processing dynamics in 18-month-olds (N = 79) using a novel approach that calculates individualized semantic structu...It's a Double Word Wednesday! 🤩
This week's words are both verbs. Venerate and Enervate!
Venerate and Enervate are not synonyms!
Venerate: To respect a person deeply
Enervate: To cause someone to feel drained.
Sentences: The professor's lectures were enervating as many students tended to fall asleep during lectures. However, this same professor was certainly venerated for their numerous contributions to the field of language sciences!
Happy Word Wednesday, everyone!
We know that we haven't been serving up some awesome vocabulary and terms lately, but we wanted to make up for this!
We've found an awesome YouTube channel, MagooshGRE, that also enjoys Word Wednesdays as much as we do! Here's a link to their "Vocab Wednesdays" playlist, which will be especially helpful for those preparing for the GRE!
We hope you enjoy, and stay cool out there today!
We'll be back with more for our fabulous word-lovers--also known as logophiles!-- next week!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up4Rc1wrLZ8&list=PL0BE1A07536688372
We're excited to read more about SLHS in India this summer!
Happy Summer! Lola Llama is loving this weather!
The LLAMA Lab is still open during the summer! Contact us to learn more about our child-friendly studies in our lab and other labs/groups within the Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department at Lyles-Porter Hall! We'd love for you to learn more and to have your child(ren) participate!
(We'd also like to mention that visiting us at Lyles-Porter is a great way to beat the heat on campus! We know it's hot out there!)
Artwork by our Research Assistant (RA), Elizabeth S.!
Introducing our new cover photo!
We met a fabulous and friendly llama not too long ago, and, naturally, we needed a lab group picture! Here's our Spring 2019 crew! (We can't wait to have you all back in the Fall semester, and we hope your summer vacation is lovely thus far!)
Pictured is one of our Research Assistants (RAs), Candace!
Candace will be headed to India tomorrow with other fabulous members of the Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department!
Read more about their travels and experiences over the next few weeks!:
slhsinindia.wordpress.com/
Safe travels to all! We can't wait to hear about Candace's travels when she returns!
Fun Fact!: One of our current RAs, Jaelyn, and LLAMA Lab Alumna, Elizabeth A., were part of last year's "SLHS in India" group! You can check out their experiences from last year in the link above!
We are thrilled that Candace is part of this year's group, and we wish her an amazing experience!
Friends, we're so excited to announce the first PhD defense for a LLAMA lab member - Ryan Peters. Everyone is welcome!
It's Member Monday!
Meet Elizabeth!
Year: Sophomore
Major: Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences
Minor: Spanish
Fun Fact: "I’ve been decorating cakes for over 10 years and even made a couple’s wedding cake back home!"
Thanks for all that you do, Elizabeth!
Check out this post from Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences!
Superb job to all!The 40th Annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) was recently held in Madison, Wisconsin from June 6th-8th, 2019. The purpose of this symposium is to share research and promote talks between scholars and students regarding child language disorders. Dr. Natalya Kaganovich of The Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Michelle Indarjit of The Language Learning and Meaning Acquisition (LLAMA) Laboratory (PI: Dr. Arielle Borovsky) both presented posters! They are pictured here with graduate student, Justin Kueser, and Dr. Patricia Deevy. A wonderful time was had by all!
Learn more about SRCLD!: www.srcld.org/Home/Home.aspx
It's a fabulous Word Wednesday!
This week's work is a noun! Canard!
Definition (from vocabulary.com): "A deliberately misleading fabrication"
Sentence (from wordsinasentence.com): "In order to sell magazines, the tabloid will knowingly print a canard that is not supported by facts."
