The Language Creation Lab will present two posters based on our research with adult homesigners in Nicaragua, “Agent and Patient Categories in English-Speaking Children and Homesigners” and “The emergence of negation in Nicaraguan homesign systems.” See the conference program HERE. These posters represent collaborative work with Dr. Annemarie Kocab and Danielle Novak (Johns Hopkins University), and Dr. Jesse Snedeker, Dr. Irene Canudas Grabolosa, Dr. Victor Gomes, and Hanna-Sophia Georgievska Shine (Harvard University).
News
ADOS-2 in ASL Project Collaboration
Dr. Coppola Working Under AAAS Fellowship!
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) Science & Technology Policy Fellow.
She was recently in D.C working on disability policy under this fellowship! Read more in this UConn Today article.
Projects Accepted for Presentation at Future Events!
Madeline (Maddie) Quam’s Successful Dissertation Defense
Plenary Presentation at Evolang Conference in Madison, WI
Dr. Coppola gave presented on "The context of Transmission Matters in the Creation and Evolution of Language" at The Evolution of Language Conference in Madison, WI!
BRIEF Paper Video
Watch this short video about the results and findings from Corina Goodwin, Emily Carrigan, Kristin Walker, and Marie Coppola’s paper “Language not auditory experience is related to parent-reported executive functioning in preschool-aged deaf and hard-of-hearing children.”
New Paper Published!
Corina Goodwin, Emily Carrigan, Kristin Walker, and Marie Coppola’s paper “Language not auditory experience is related to parent-reported executive functioning in preschool-aged deaf and hard-of-hearing children” was published in the Journal of Child Development.
This study used the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) as a parent-reported measure of preschool-aged children’s executive function, and investigated the role of language and auditory experience within this measure.
The results showed no difference between children exposed to language at birth, whether that language was spoken or signed. But children who had delayed exposure to language, whether spoken or signed, did tend to have more trouble with executive functioning.
Click the link below to read the paper and find out more about the results!
Best Paper in Language 2019 Award!
The best paper in Language 2019 award was given to “The noun-verb distinction in established and emergent sign systems” written by (pictured above, clockwise from upper left) Natasha Abner, Molly Flaherty, Katelyn Stangl, Marie Coppola, Diane Brentari, and Susan Goldin-Meadow. This article was featured in Language Volume 25, Number 2.
Their article discussed emergent sign systems and highlighted important findings, including: a noun-verb distinction in human communication and how the distinction emerges and develops in a new sign language.
Congratulations to our lab director Dr. Coppola and the other authors as well!
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Do you have a child with hearing loss between the ages of 2.5-5.5?
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