Check out this work by our fabulous Post-Doc, Dr. Sabrina Horvath and Dr. Sudha Arunachalam!New paper out in ASHA Perspectives! Sabrina Horvath (now postdoc at Purdue LLAMA Lab) and Sudha review evidence about how children learn new verbs. Not a SIG member? Get in touch and we'd be happy to send you the manuscript version.
pubs.asha.org/doi/full/10.1044/2019_PERSP-19-00088
How cool! It looks like the LLaMA Lab needs to take a field trip next summer!
The latest word on Planet Word: Downtown D.C.’s language museum is set to open in May
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An interactive museum in the historic Franklin School will use puzzles and games to explore words.There's SNOW place like the LLaMA Lab!
While some of us will be around for the next few weeks, we wish all students the best of luck and productive times during finals week (--especially to our superb research crew! Thanks for making the semester a "Fabulous Fall '19!" See you next month, year, and decade!)
(Artwork by Mackenzie!)
It's a bitter-sweet day for the LLaMA Lab!
We're excited to wrap up another fantastic fall semester with our crew! However, as we look back on the semester, we're sad to say good-bye to some of our own as the semester closes.
Thank you to our Fall '19 LLaMA Lab graduates: Mackenzie, Jonah, and Jenny for all of your great work over the past few semesters. We'll miss you so much!
We'd also like to recognize our summer '19 lab graduates as well: Stacey and (Dr.!) Ryan as well. We hope that your fall semester treated you all well!
It's been an awesome semester, and we're looking forward to the next semester (, year, and even decade) of research!
This past Saturday night, members of the LLaMA Lab took a field trip...all the way to the Roller System! It was here that the Illiana Derby Dames took on Lafayette Roller Derby!
Our lab manager, Michelle, was a non-skating official (NSO) that night. She was the jam timer, which (briefly put) means that she was responsible for starting, timing, and sometimes stopping game play. We even gave her a LLaMA Lab shout-out during the game!
We learned so much about roller derby that night, and we had a total blast!
Thank you to everyone who put all the details together to make this night one to remember!
(Picture of Michelle taken by Kit Ruff!)
We love this story about the amazing communication skill building playground in our department. Come play in this special place next semester during our Saturday Play Cafes! Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks! Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Purdue Infant-Child Language-Speech Labs Purdue Speech & Language Preschool
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Communication Playground helping kids with Language Issues
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The Bob L. and Joyce Beery Miles Outdoor Learning Space located outside of Lyles-Porter Hall was designed for researchers in Purdue’s Department of Speech, L...If you know an adult who stutters, check out this fantastic new community resource developed by one of our lovely colleagues, Barb Brown.The next meeting of the NSA West Lafayette chapter will be on Tuesday, November 5, 2019 at 6:30 pm in the West Lafayette Public Library. Please join us!
Hi everyone!
Check out some of the updates we've made on our website.
Enjoy!
www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/llamalab/
It's autumn!
'Tis the season for chilly weather, warm coats, cozy fires!, and fantastic research at Purdue!
Our lab and colleagues at the Dept. of Purdue University Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences have been working diligently on wonderful research!
Interested in signing yourself and/or your child(ren) up to participate? Check this link out! Please let us know if you have any questions!
www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/registry.html
Purdue Infant-Child Language and Speech Labs- PICLS
A good Saturday morning to all!
We’re so excited to kick-off our inaugural Play Café at the Preschool!
Q: What is the Play Café?
A: A fun, family-friendly event where children can play at the Preschool and Preschool playground! We have refreshments for both children and parents! Drop in and leave as you please.
Interested in learning more? Feel free to leave us a message or comment below!
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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
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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...
