The Words in the World Network encompasses a wide range of interests and expertise. The following members of the grant have registered this information with us to be shared.
| Collaborator | Affiliation, Location | Areas of expertise | Techniques | Notable Populations | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Archibald, John | University of Victoria, Canada | Second Language Acquisition; Phonology; Bilingualism; Psycholinguistics | Indigenous languages of British Columbia | ||
| Dr. Arnhold, Anja | University of Alberta, Canada | Prosody; Experimental research; Interaction between different areas of grammar; Typology | experimental phonology, production data and perception studies | Inuktitut (Canadian and Greenlandic, i.e., Kalaallisut), Finnish, English, German, Danish | |
| Dr. Atchley, Ruth Ann | University of South Florida, United States | ERP, fMRI, psychological tools for assessment of peripheral nervous system functions, stakeholder communication | populations with dementia, true monolingual participants | English | |
| Dr. Baayen, Harald | Eberhard Karls Universitt Tbingen, Germany | ||||
| Dr. Bassetti, Benedetta | University of Birmingham, United Kingdom | writing systems, scripts, orthographies, second language writing systems, bilingualism, biliteracy | orthographic effects on spoken word production and perception, phonological representations of words in L2 learners and late bilinguals, organising postgraduate research training, baby-lab, eye tracking for child language development, video lab for gesture studies, statistical analysis for corpora or lexical database | L2 learners and bilinguals, Italian learners of Chinese, Chinese-English bilinguals; infants and children (age 0-16) | Italian, Chinese, British English, Italian learners of Chinese, Chinese-English bilinguals |
| Dr. Charest, Monique | University of Alberta, Canada | Language development; Developmental language disorders; Language production, lexical and syntactic processing; Psycholinguistics; Language assessment, identification of language disorders | language sample analysis, clinical tools, eye-tracking paired with language production | Preschool and school-age children; children with typical language development and developmental language disorders (Specific Language Impairment) | |
| Dr. Connolly, John | McMaster University, Canada | speech perception; reading; electroencephalography & event-related potentials; communication impairments due to neuropathology; neural measures of language learning | EEG, ERP | language learners including English, Chinese, Arabic, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French, Japanese | English, Chinese |
| Dr. de Almeida, Roberto | Concordia University, Canada | Psycholinguistics; lexical semantics; concepts; sentence comprehension; word recognition/lexical access | ERP, statistical analysis, response time analysis, sentence recall/recognition, eye-tracking | persons with aphasia, children with autism spectrum disorder | English, Portuguese, French |
| Dr. Dressler, Wolfgang | University of Vienna, Austria | corpus linguistics and psycholinguitic data collection and analysis, morphological modeling, scaling of morphosemantic and morphotactic opacity | access to child language data, especially in German (L1, L2) and on Turkish as spoken by immigrants in Austria, as well as on standard-dialect variation, electronic corpora of German | German, Italian, Turkish | |
| Dr. Gagne, Christina | University of Alberta, Canada | compounds; conceptual combination; language comprehension; language representation; psycholinguistics | statistical methods (ANOVA, regression, mixed effects), lexical decision & other psycholinguistic tasks, typing latencies, accuracy data analysis, Supercard programming | English | |
| Dr. Gillon, Brendon | McGill University, Canada | semantics; syntax; morphology; pragmatics; logic; count vs. mass nouns, argument structure | Chinese, English, French, Sanskrit | ||
| Dr. Gomez, Pablo | DePaul University, United States | Eye-tracking, modeling, ERP, English, Spanish | modeling and statistics | English, Spanish, contacts in the Valencia community | |
| Dr. Goral, Mira | The City University of New York, United States | persons with aphasia who may be interested in participating in research and can offer insight into language processing, Spanish-English bilinguals in NYC | Hebrew, Spanish | ||
| Dr. Hockley, Bill | Wilfred Laurier University, Canada | cognition; human memory; recognition; attention | characteristics of words and sentences as they relate to and impact memory; linguistic properties of stimuli in memory studies | ||
| Dr. Katz, Albert | University of Western Ontario, Canada | language processing; comprehension and production of metaphor; comprehension and production of irony & sarcasm; everyday and autobiographical memory | ratings, questionnaires, episodic memory tests, moving windows, ERP | English | |
| Dr. Kiefte, Michael | Dalhousie University, Canada | speech perception; speech production; speech processing | audio recording, automatic phoneme segmentation, automatic formant tracking | English, Acadian | |
| Dr. Libben, Maya | University of British Columbia, Canada | eye-tracking; psychopathology; stroke; language; EEG | mobile eye-tracking, behavioural testing, ActiveTwo EEG, integrated eye-tracking and EEG, neuropsychological assessment | English monolinguals, clinical elderly patient populations, healthy elderly control populations, stroke patients | English |
| Dr. Manouilidou, Christina | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia | behavioural tasks | Greek-speaking and Slovenian-speaking aging populations as well as individuals with MCI, Alzheimers disease, PPA | Greek, Slavic (Slovenian) | |
| Dr. Mondini, Sara | Universit degli Studi di Padova, Italy | transcranial electrical stimulation (tES, tDCS, tRNS), clinical interventials in language difficulties, questionnaire for measuring cognitive reserve | Italian-speaking elderly people, individuals with aphasia or dementia | Italian | |
| Dr. Myers, James | National Chung Cheng Univeristy, Taiwan | Asian languages, psycholinguistics | web-based experiments and databases | Yes; Chinese (Mandarin, using traditional characters; Southern Min), Taiwan Sign Language | |
| Dr. O'Brien, Mary | University of Calgary, Canada | second language Acquisition; German; phonetics; processing; prosody | eye-tracking, phonetic analysis, auditory training (segmental & prosodic) | monolingual English speakers, beginner to intermediate learners of a range of languages | English, German |
| Dr. Padakannaya, Prakash | University of Mysore India | language and cognitive assessment tools in local languages, eye-tracking, vocabulary and spelling teaching modules; illiteracy; training/intervention for children with dyslexia, SLI, autism spectrum disorder, children from lower SES | children with dyslexia, SLI, autism spectrum disorder | English as a non-native language; Kannada, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam | |
| Dr. Ralli, Angela | University of Patras, Greece | morphological variations, issues in approaches regarding language contact | Greek students | Greek, English, French | |
| Dr. Rowsell, Jennifer | Brock University, Canada | digital literacy; critical discourse analysis; multimodality; language diasporas; language, literacy and multiliteracies | ethnographic research in K-12 classrooms, artifact collection, Visual Studio Code, hand-movement recording, visual and modal analysis, embodiment | K-12 children | |
| Dr. Smolka, Eva | Universitt Konstanz, Germany | psycholinguistic tasks (priming, sentence-to-picture matching), EEG | German native speakers (age 20-35); German-English bilinguals; Slavic-German bilinguals; children at kindergarten and school age | German, Hebrew | |
| Dr. Spalding, Tom | University of Alberta, Canada | compounds; conceptual combination; language comprehension; language representation; psycholinguistics | statistical methods (ANOVA, regression, mixed effects), lexical decision & other psycholinguistic tasks, typing latencies, accuracy data analysis, Supercard programming | English | |
| Dr. Taler, Vanessa | University of Ottawa, Canada | Alzheimer; mild cognitive impairment; semantic processing; ERP | ERP, statistical methods | ||
| Dr. Thordardottir, Elin | McGill University, Canada | language development; vocabular development; bilingualism; developmental language impairment; language intervention | language assessment in children, naturalistic language sampling, formal language tests, bilingual assessment, intervention studies to assess training techniques | monolingual and bilingual speakers of Icelandic and French, children with typical language development, children with language impairment | English, French, Icelandic, various combinations of bilingual acquisition: French/English, French/minority language, Polish/Icelandic, second language learning of Icelandic |
| Dr. Tucker, Ben | University of Alberta, Canada | Phonetics; spoken word recognition; spontaneous speech; lexical representation; speech perception | sound booths, audio recording, speech synthesis, behavioural methods, eye-tracking | English, Romanian, Indigenous languages | |
| Dr. Westbury, Chris | University of Alberta, Canada | Experimental psycholinguistics; semantic access; reading; aphasia; psychometrics | computational modeling (especially semantics), topic modelingm textual analysis, experimental design, big data analysis |