BLAB news 2020-

This fall, the BLAB welcomed new post-docs Charles Davis and Jasenia Hartman, new PhD student Genia Lukin, and new CNAP rotational PhD student Kristen Gilyard.

Shannon Dailey, PhD successfully defended her dissertation on the role of language input in children’s language development, after many years in the BLAB: first as lab manager and then as a PhD student. She will continue her work as a postdoc in the...

Jingxuan Liu ‘22 received the 2022 Jerome Bruner Thesis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her work focusing on adults’ perception of mispronunciation.

Charlotte Moore, PhD has become the first-ever PhD recipient from the BLAB, following the successful defense of her dissertation, “Variable wordforms, adaptable learners: Evidence from real-time word comprehension and naturalistic corpora.” She continues...

PhD student Shannon Dailey has received the competitive Summer Research Fellowship from the Duke Graduate School.

The BLAB welcomes incoming lab manager Lillianna Righter, recent graduate of the University of Maryland. Welcome Lilli!

BLAB graduate student Charlotte Moore will be giving a talk at this fall’s Boston University Conference on Language Development and BLAB postdoc Federica Bulgarelli will be presenting a poster. Charlotte also received a Paula Menyuk Award for her abstract...

In October, BLAB graduate student Erin Campbell will present at the Many Paths to Language Conference, organized by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.

BLAB postdoc Federica Bulgarelli was awarded a grant from the Charles Lafitte Foundation Program for Research in Psychology & Neuroscience to recruit bilingual babies from the Triangle area to participate in our lab’s studies.

Elika Bergelson was the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Early Career Contribution Award from the International Congress of Infant Studies. Congrats, Dr. B!