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Author:

Schwartz, Ana Isabel

Title:

The nature of cross-language lexical activation in sentence context: A pscyholinguistic analysis

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
lexical access
sentence processing

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Sandra J. Savignon, Committee Member
Cathleen M Moore, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member
Chip Gerfen, Committee Member

Author:

Jacobs, April Lynn

Title:

SEGMENTAL PRODUCTION IN BILINGUAL SPEECH: A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spanish
bilingualism
psycholinguistics
Language acquisition
Spanish phonetics
Spanish phonology
lexical processing

File:

Download APRIL_JACOBS_DOCTORAL_DISSERTATION_SPRING_2007.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry J Gerfen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Barbara E Bullock, Committee Member

Author:

De Prada Pérez, Ana

Title:

Subject Expression in Minorcan Spanish: Consequences of Contact with Catalan

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Subject expression
variation
microvariation
bilingualism
convergence
simplification
Spanish
Catalan
Minorca

File:

Download dePradadissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Nuria Sagarra, Committee Member
Barbara E Bullock, Committee Member
J. Marc Authier, Committee Member

Author:

Sumutka, Bianca Moravec

Title:

Lexical Parsing Strategies in Two Languages: Constraints on Language Selection in Word Recognition

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

language
psycholinguistics
bilingualism

File:

Download thesis.PDF

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Rick Owen Gilmore, Committee Member
David A. Rosenbaum, Committee Member

Author:

Barnes, Hilary

Title:

A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF SUSTAINED VENETO-SPANISH BILINGUALISM IN CHIPILO, MEXICO

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

Spanish
Veneto
language maintenance
bilingualism

File:

Download BarnesDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Almeida Jacqueline Toribio, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Bullock, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Philip Baldi, Committee Member

Author:

Gullifer, Jason William

Title:

The effect of syntactic constraints on parallel activation of words in the bilingual's languages

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

syntactic constraints
word recognition
psycholinguistics
bilingualism

File:

Download gullifer-masters_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Adams Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hoshino, Noriko

Title:

A PSYCHOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF NATIVE LANGUAGE CONSTRAINTS ON SPEAKING WORDS IN A SECOND LANGUAGE

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

language production
bilingualism

File:

Download Noriko_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Richard Alan Carlson, Committee Member
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member
Henry J Gerfen, Committee Member

Author:

Tokowicz, Natasha

Title:

Meaning Representation Within and Across Languages

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

context availability
lexical decision
ambiguity
translation
concreteness
bilingualism

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

J Toby Mordkoff, Committee Member
James Lantolf, Committee Member
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Sue Quigley, Committee Member

Author:

McClain, Rhonda

Title:

What distracting information tells us about bilingual speech planning: Evidence for asymmetries in bilingual translation

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

translation
speech production
bilingualism
Revised Hierarchical Model

File:

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Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bobb, Susan Christine

Title:

MORPHOLOGY IN BILINGUAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: THE ROLE OF SECOND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN ACQUIRING GRAMMATICAL GENDER

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

critical period
morphology
bilingualism
grammatical gender

File:

Download Thesis_Bobb_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member
Maya Misra, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member

Author:

Phelps, Tyler Elisabeth

Title:

Does Sentence Context Constrain Cross-Language Lexical Access?

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

sentence context
lexical access
cognate
bilingualism

File:

Download MastersThesisTEP.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zinszer, Benjamin Daniel

Title:

Lexico-semantic Interaction in Chinese-english Bilingualism

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

semantics
lexicon
concept
categorization
bilingualism
Chinese
interaction

File:

Download BenjaminZinszer-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Guzzardo Tamargo, Rosa Elisa

Title:

Linking comprehension costs to production patterns during the processing of mixed language

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

codeswitching
eye-tracking
sentence processing
bilingualism
task effects
switch costs

File:

Download RGT_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chip Gerfen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Member

Author:

Valdes Kroff, Jorge Rodrigo

Title:

Using eye-tracking to study auditory comprehension in codeswitching: Evidence for the link between comprehension and production

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

codeswitching
grammatical gender
sentence processing
visual world paradigm
bilingualism

File:

Download JRVK_PSU_Diss_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry J Gerfen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Member
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Hicks, Adam John

Title:

PERSPECTIVES OF BILINGUALS TOWARD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND ACCENT MODIFICATION THERAPY

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

bilingualism
accent modification therapy
culture
speech language pathology

File:

Download Adam_Hicks_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kathryn D R Drager, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bogulski, Cari Anne

Title:

Are bilinguals better learners?: A neurocognitive investigation of the bilingual advantage

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
vocabulary learning
cognitive control
ERP

File:

Download Bogulski_Dissertation_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Member
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Litcofsky, Kaitlyn Ann

Title:

Sentential codeswitching and cognate triggering: A neurocognitive study

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

codeswitching
bilingualism
psycholinguistics
ERPs

File:

Download Litcofsky_MastersThesis-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ting, Caitlin Yeh-Shan

Title:

Cognitive control in linguistic and non-linguistic contexts in bilinguals and monolingual

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
cognitive control
homograph processing
lexical ambiguity
psycholinguistics
word recognition

File:

Download Final_Electronic_Thesis_Ting.pdf

Committee Members:

Adriana Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dietrich, Amelia Jane

Title:

The Role of Probabilistic Cues in L2 Processing: Verb bias in Spanish and English

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

sentence processing
bilingualism
corpus linguistics
verb bias
psycholinguistics
Spanish

File:

Download DISSERTATION_-_FINAL_VERSION.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carrie Neal Jackson, Committee Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Member
John Lipski, Committee Member
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Ji Sook

Title:

Bilingual influence on cognitive processes related to linguistic abilities in school-age children

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

Cognitive processes
linguistic abilities
bilingualism
procedural learning
attention
processing speed
Serial Reaction Time

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Revision_Dec_1_2014_modified.pdf

Committee Members:

Carol Anne Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kathryn D R Drager, Committee Member
Krista M Wilkinson, Committee Member
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Member
Elina Mainela Arnold, Special Member

Author:

Zinszer, Benjamin Daniel

Title:

Lexical semantic variation and cross-language interaction in categorization

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

categorization
lexical semantics
bilingualism
immersion
anterior cingulate cortex
pars triangularis
word production

File:

Download Benjamin_Zinszer_-_Dissertation_11Dec2014.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Cm Molenaar, Committee Member
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Member
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Bulgarelli, Federica

Title:

Tracking multiple inputs: An investigation of the primacy effect in monolinguals and bilinguals

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

statistical learning
bilingualism
primacy effect

File:

Download Bulgarelli_Masters_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel J Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

McClain, Rhonda

Title:

Using event-related potentials to track the scope and time course of inhibition during bilingual speech

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
second language learning
event-related potentials
inhibition
language control

File:

Download rhondathesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Member
David A. Rosenbaum, Committee Member
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Eleonora Rossi, Special Member
Natasha Tokowicz, Special Member

Author:

Gullifer, Jason William

Title:

Using syntactic priming to identify cross-language constraints in bilingual language processing

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

syntactic constraints
word recognition
syntactic priming
psycholinguistics
bilingualism

File:

Download gullifer-diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Fran Kroll, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carol Anne Miller, Committee Member
Adriana Van Hell, Committee Member
Bradley Paul Wyble, Committee Member

Author:

Navarro-torres, Christian A

Title:

Examining Structural Constraints in Bilingual Language Processing and Speech Production

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
cognition
language production
language use
language processing

File:

Download Navarro-Torres_MA_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Fran Kroll, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Butler-trump, Lindsay Kay

Title:

Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic influences on the production of optional plural morphology among bilingual speakers of Yucatec Maya and Spanish

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

psycholinguistics
sociolinguistics
sentence production
morphosyntax
plural
bilingualism
Spanish
Yucatec Maya

File:

Download butler_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Carol Anne Miller, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ting, Caitlin Yeh-Shan

Title:

Syntactic processing in language and music: Behavioral and electrophysiological studies

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

psycholinguistics
syntactic processing
music cognition
bilingualism
event-related potentials

File:

Download Ting_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Janet van Hell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Janet van Hell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Kroll, Committee Member
Suzy Scherf, Committee Member
Carrie Jackson, Outside Member

Author:

Poepsel, Timothy John

Title:

The Influence of Bilingualism on Statistical Learning With Multiple Inputs

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

Statistical learning
language acquisition
bilingualism
speech segmentation
word learning

File:

Download Poepsel_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dan Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dan Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith Kroll, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Kristin Buss, Outside Member

Author:

Steuck, Jonathan William

Title:

THE PROSODIC-SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE OF INTRA-SENTENTIAL MULTI-WORD CODE-SWITCHING IN THE NEW MEXICO SPANISH-ENGLISH BILINGUAL COMMUNITY

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

codeswitching
prosody
syntax
variation
bilingualism
Intonation Unit
prosodic-syntactic interface
linguistics
sociolinguistics
cognitive psychology
functional linguistics
usage-based linguistics
New Mexican Spanish
Spanish in the US
corpus linguistics
Spanish
English
Prosodic sentence
Benefits of bilingualism
community norms
discourse analysis
variationist comparative method
prosody-syntax interface
Spanish of New Mexico
language in context
variationist linguistics
constraints of code-switching

File:

Download Steuck.dissertation.2018.The_prosodic-syntactic_structure_of_code-switching.pdfDownload Errata_Steuck_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Lynn Miller, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Committee Member
Melinda Fricke, Outside Member

Author:

Bice, Kinsey L

Title:

Dynamics of Language Processing and the Consequences for New Language Learning

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

bilingualism
language learning
ERPs
language processing
trajectory of learning

File:

Download Bice_Dissertation_to_Publish.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith F Kroll, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michele Theresa Diaz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Member
Daniel J Weiss, Committee Member
Carrie Neal Jackson, Outside Member

Author:

Johns, Michael

Title:

INTEGRATION IN CODESWITCHING: WHAT IS IT, HOW DOES IT SURFACE, AND WHY?

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

bilingualism
codeswitching
processing
production
psycholinguistics
sociolinguistics

File:

Download MA_Johns_-_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Eulalia Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Thomas Carlson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Rena Cacoullos, Committee Member
Michael Travis Putnam, Outside Member
Jorge Valdés Kroff, Special Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schloss, Benjamin J

Title:

Bilingual Language Control during Naturalistic Reading

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

fMRI
bilingualism
cognitive control
bilingual advantage
initial dip
multiband
naturalistic
reading
eye-tracking
FiRe fMRI
MVPA
decoding

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ping Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ping Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michele Diaz, Committee Member
Michael Hallquist, Committee Member
Paola Eulalia Dussias, Outside Member
Kristin Ann Buss, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cowan, Tiana

Title:

Error Patterns in Bilingual Sentence Repetition: An Analysis of Cognitive-Linguistic and Lexical-Semantic Factors

Graduate Program:

Communication Sciences and Disorders

Keywords:

bilingualism
sentence repetition
developmental language disorder
communication sciences and disorders

File:

Download Cowan_dissertation_Revised_final_TC.pdf

Committee Members:

Anne Olmstead, Major Field Member
Diane Williams, Major Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carol Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nicole Etter (she/her), Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Trawick, Sonya

Title:

Revisiting the Concept of "Triggering of Code-Switching

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

bilingualism
linguistics
code-switching
trigger
sociolinguistics
quantitative
corpus

File:

Download Trawick_Dissertation_12_July_2022.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Major Field Member
John Lipski, Major Field Member
Rena Cacoullos, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet van Hell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Link, Allison

Title:

Acquiring Grammatical Classes from Distributional Properties of the Input: The Challenge of Bilingual Acquisition

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

statistical learning
distributional learning
categorization
grammatical classes
grammar
artificial language
bilingual
bilingualism
language
language acquisition

File:

Download Link_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Daniel J Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elisabeth Karuza, Committee Member
Matthew Thomas Carlson, Committee Member

Author:

Callen, Cole

Title:

Acquisition and maintenance of morphosyntactic variation: Differential object marking in Spanish-speaking children and adult Spanish-English bilinguals

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

bilingualism
language variation
heritage spanish
language acquisition
language development
child language

File:

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Committee Members:

Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Major Field Member
Carol Miller, Outside Unit & Field Member
Naomi Shin, Special Member
Rena Cacoullos, Major Field Member
Karen Miller, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paola Migliaccio-Dussias, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miller, Adriana

Title:

Novel metaphor processing in a second language: A behavioral and ERP study

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

novel metaphor
EEG
bilingualism
second language
ERP

File:

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Committee Members:

Janet Van Hell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roger Beaty, Committee Member
Kristin Buss (She/Her), Program Head/Chair
Chaleece Sandberg (She/Her), Committee Member

Author:

Halberstadt, Lauren Perrotti

Title:

Investigating community norms and linguistic mechanisms in codeswitching: Bridging linguistic theory and psycholinguistic experimentation

Graduate Program:

Spanish

Keywords:

linguistics
psycholinguistics
sociolinguistics
codeswitching
bilingualism
language science
Spanish
corpus
eye tracking

File:

Download Halberstadt_Dissertation_2017_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Paola Dussias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Lipski, Committee Member
Matthew Carlson, Committee Member
Carrie Jackson, Outside Member
Damian Vergara Wilson, Special Member
Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paola Dussias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Merseal, Hannah

Title:

Examining Executive and Associative Contributions to Bilingual Creativity: A Neurocognitive Networks Approach

Graduate Program:

Psychology

Keywords:

creativity
bilingualism
network science
semantic memory
executive control
fMRI

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Committee Members:

Kristin Buss, Program Head/Chair
Rick Gilmore, Major Field Member
Roger Beaty, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Janet van Hell, Major Field Member
Chaleece Sandberg (she/her), Outside Unit & Field Member