BLAB news 2016-2019

Look out for the BLAB at CDS 2017, with pre-conference and conference talks by Dr. Bergelson!

Congratulations to our postdoc, Catherine Laing , who recently had a paper accepted to the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology ! Coming soon: “A perceptual advantage for onomatopoeia in early word learning: Evidence from eye-tracking.”

Congratulations to our graduate student, Charlotte Moore , who was recently awarded an SSHRC Doctoral fellowship!

Congratulations to our graduate student, Charlotte Moore , who finished up a great first year at Duke with her successful presentation at the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience’s first year festival!

Dr. Bergelson just had a paper accepted to Language Learning and Development: Semantic Specificity in One-Year-Olds’ Word Comprehension, Bergelson & Aslin, 2017.

Lab manager Shannon Dailey will be staying in the BLAB next year as a graduate student! She will continue working with Dr. Bergelson as she begins her PhD here at Duke this Fall.

The BLAB has a 100% acceptance rate to CogSci! Lab technician Andrei Amatuni and postdoc Catherine Laing were both accepted to the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in London this July.

Lab manager Shannon Dailey gave a talk titled “Semantic Relatedness Effects in Early Word Learning” at the Society of Research in Cognitive Development’s 2017 meeting in Austin, TX.

PI Dr. Elika Bergelson is a grant recipient of Trans-Atlantic Platform’s Digging Into Data Challenge Grant for the Analyzing Child Language Experiences around the World (ACLEW) project. ACLEW will be studying child language development across cultures.

The BLAB will be featured in two Special Sessions at Interspeech 2017 in Stockholm this August. The sessions focus on data collection and annotation issues in child language acquisition research, and on a Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE).