Current Members of the Language Acquisition & Processing Lab
Director: Karin Stromswold, M.D., Ph. D. karin@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Lab Manager: Diane Molnar dmolnar@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Postdoctoral Associate:
Natalie Batmanian, Ph.D. (Acquisition and
processing of Turkish). nbr@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Graduate Student:
Choon-Kyu Lee (MA
thesis: The processing of Korean
relative clauses). choonkyu@eden.rutgers.edu
Undergraduate Students:
Mahvish
Haq: (PEGI Project: Factors that affect handedness) mhaq@eden.rutgers.edu
Roomi
Kunuria (PEGI Project) roomikunuria246@netzero.com
Avneet Madan
(PEGI Project: Biological risk factors for poor neonatal outcome in high risk
children) amadan@eden.rutgers.edu
Leah Zilberman (PEGI Project: PAL Articulation test item analysis: Which items 'work' and why?
leahzilb@eden.rutgers.edu
Ali Shafqet
(PEGI Project: Perinatal
neurotransmitters and neurodevelopment) ashafqet@eden.rutgers.edu
Ewa
Slodownik (PEGI Project: PAL Syntax test item analysis: Which items 'work' and why?
snowflake543@gmail.com
Shira
Yudkowitz (PEGI Project: Early
intervention and special educational services from 0 to 5) shirayud@eden.rutgers.edu
Ravali
Tammareddy (PEGI Project: Early
psychological/behavioral therapy and long term outcome in high risk children) vishnu87@eden.rutgers.edu
Serena
Whittington (PEGI Project: Using the 'Draw a Picture' task to assess children's
cognitive, fine motor and psychosocial development ) swhittin@eden.rutgers.edu
Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Lab Manager: Diane Molnar
Natalie
Batmanian, Ph.D. (Acquisition and processing of Turkish). nbr@ruccs.rutgers.edu
Graduate Students:
Choon-Kyu Lee (MA thesis: The processing of Korean relative clauses). choonkyu@eden.rutgers.edu
Undergraduate Students:
Naz
Durakoglu (PEGI
Project: Naming practices in twins
and singletons) nazzz@eden.rutgers.edu
Rena Gersten (BA thesis: The Effects of Siblings on Language Development) rgrs10@yahoo.com
Anna Lineback
(Accuracy of a parent-administered test of articulation) lineback@princeton.edu
Lindsey Poet (BA
thesis: Is phonology genetic?) linzpoet@eden.rutgers.edu
Avneet Madan (PEGI
Project) amadan@eden.rutgers.edu
Pamela Mendez: (PEGI Project:
Autism: Biological and
psychosocial factors) superaries14@hotmail.com
Andrew Miller
(What Makes a Passive Sentence Passive?) andemille@eden.rutgers.edu
Leah Ziberman (PEGI Project) leahzilb@eden.rutgers.edu
Shira Yudkowitz
(PEGI Project) shirayud@eden.rutgers.edu
Fall 2004-Spring 2005
Lab Manager: Diane Molnar
Postdoctoral Associate:
Natalie
Batmanian, Ph.D. (Acquisition and processing of Turkish)
Graduate Students:
Choon-Kyu Lee (The processing of Korean relative clauses)
Christie Veitch (MA thesis: Adult processing of
Get and
be
in active and passive sentences)
Undergraduate Students:
Andrea DiDonato (BA thesis: Do premature twins catch-up?)
Andrew Miller (Morphological
distinctiveness and ambiguity in sentence processing)
Valeria Krivelevich (Perinatal Project)
Teny Kuydan (Perinatal Project)
Avneet Madan (Perinatal Project)
Lindsey Poet (Perinatal Project)
Debbie Rodriguez
(Perinatal Project)
Fall 2003-Spring 2004
Lab Manager: Diane Molnar
Postdoctoral Associate:
Ellyn Sheffield, Ph.D.
(Developmental patterns in preterm children: Do they catch-up or fall behind?)
Graduate Students:
Dana Chesney (Spoken language processing in dyslexic adults)
Andre Nuendel (Acquisition of German relative clauses)
Christie Veitch (The acquisition & processing
of full and truncated actives
& passives)
Scot Zola (Acoustic cues for syntactic structures/Acoustic correlates
of stress)
Undergraduate Students:
Renuka Ati (Handedness and linguistic and nonlinguistic development)
Andrea DiDonato (Linguistic and non-linguistic comorbidity in biologically
at-risk children)
Christopher Healey (Morphological distinctiveness and
ambiguity in sentence processing)
Scot Holodak (Collecting, managing & analyzing large datasets)
Valeria Krivelevich (Perinatal Project)
Debbie Rodriguez
(Perinatal Project)
Katie Schramm (BA thesis: Do language-specific genes exist?)
Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Lab Manager: Diane Molnar
Postdoctoral Associate:
Ellyn Sheffield, Ph.D. (The impact
of early acoustical experience on linguistic and nonlinguistic development)
Graduate Students:
Natalie
Batman-Ratyosyan, (Ph.D. thesis: Acquisition of Turkish
word order & inflection )
Marian Chen (MS Thesis: Eye-tracking study of passives)
Andre Nuendel (Acquisition of German relative clauses)
Christie Veitch (The acquisition & processing
of full and truncated actives
& passives)
Scot Zola (Acoustic cues for syntactic structures/Acoustic correlates
of stress)
Undergraduate Students:
Renuka Ati (Perinatal Project)
Maria Balcells (Perinatal Project)
Scot Holodak (Collecting, managing & analyzing large datasets)
Raquel Homick (Acquisition of complex syntactic structures)
Shirley Rajan
(Perinatal Project)
Katie Schramm (Perinatal Project)
Medha Tare (BA thesis: Language impairments in prematurely born children)
Fall 2001-Spring 2002
Lab Manager: Janet
Eisenband
Postdoctoral Associates:
Ellyn Sheffield,
Ph.D. (Perinatal factors & language
development)
John Alderette,
Ph.D (Phonology/morphology interface)
Graduate Students:
Natalie
Batman-Ratyosyan (Ph.D. thesis: Acquisition of Turkish word order & inflection )
Marian Chen (MS
Thesis: The acquisition of passives)
Christie Veitch
(The acquisition & processing of full and truncated actives & passives)
Scot Zola
(Acoustic cues for syntactic structures/Acoustic correlates of stress)
Maria Balcells
Erin Bashall
Alana deRoche
Casey Hawkens
Carolyn Hayden (BA
thesis: Processing Passives)
Laszlo Szabo
Medha Tare
Fall 2000-Spring 2001
Lab Manager: Janet
Eisenband
Postdoctoral Associates:
Irina Sekerina,
Ph.D. (Eye-tracking studies of language acquisition and language processing)
Jennifer Vendetti,
PhD.
Doctoral students:
Natalie
Batman-Ratyosyan, (Ph.D. thesis: Acquisition of Turkish word order &
inflection )
Marian Chen (MS
Thesis: The acquisition of passives)
Kai Zimmerman,
(PhD Thesis: Full-form Storage and Blocking in Morphology and Syntax )
Research Assistants:
Jill Ratzan
Ingi Soliman
Fabiola Duverger
Cathy Fonseca
Ned Norland
Tovah Segelman
Laszlo Szabo
Medha Tare
Fall 1999-Spring 2000
Postdoctoral Associate:
Irina Sekerina,
Ph.D. (Eye-tracking studies of language
acquisition and language processing)
Graduate students:
Natalie
Batman-Ratyosyan, (MS thesis: Early stages of Turkish acquisition)
Marian Chen
(Passives)
Mindi Sudhakar (MS
thesis: Acquisition of pronouns)
Kai Zimmerman,
(Ph.D. thesis: Full-form Storage and Blocking in Morphology and Syntax )
Victoria Chen (BA
thesis: Twin study of phonological
development)
Chris Dymek
(Eye-tracking project)
Andrew Connolly
(BA thesis: Complexity and morphological
overregularization)
Koleen McCrink (BA
thesis with Dr Walker-Andrews: Emotion and word learning)
Rebecca Nappa (BA
thesis: Complexity and the Acquisition of
Inversion in Wh-questions)
Ned Norland
(Projects: Eye-tracking studies of passives and pronouns)
Laszlo Szabo
(Project: Hungarian acquisition)
Tovah Segelman (Complexity project)