Welcome to the Language Creation Lab!

We are the University of Connecticut’s Language Creation Lab, directed by Dr. Marie Coppola. We study language acquisition and creation as well as the relationship between language and cognition, as revealed by D/deaf individuals with varying degrees of language input.

Our Study of Language and Math project (SLAM), supported by an NSF CAREER Award, investigates language and number concepts, focusing on the acquisition of language and number among Deaf and Hard of Hearing children. To learn more or get involved, visit our SLAM website.

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  • Number Cognition

Contact Us

Department of Psychological Sciences
406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269-1020

marie.coppola@uconn.edu
860-486-4907

Recent News

ADOS-2 in ASL Project Collaboration

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No autism assessment instrument is validated for use with Deaf/ Hard of Hearing children in the US. The ADOS-2 in ASL project aims to adapt ADOS-2 (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule – Second Edition), a tool for assessing autism into ASL (American Sign Language). Dr. Marie Coppola and Dr. Inge-Marie Eigsti presented this project “Challenges in […]

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Dr. Coppola Working Under AAAS Fellowship!

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Congratulations to Dr. Marie Coppola for being awarded a fellowship with the American Association for the Advancement of Science! She is working as the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences under the Division of Social and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) […]

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Projects Accepted for Presentation at Future Events!

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Multiple presentations have been accepted for the 49th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development! The following projects were accepted and will be presented at the conference November 7th – 11th, 2024. Pragmatic knowledge in Asymmetric Language Contexts (Poster Presentation) The Role of Language in Building One and Two-Place Predicates: Event Imitation in Homesigners (Stage […]

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