Iowa State University Applied Linguistics and Technology Program
Language Processing, Acquisition and Change Laboratory (PACE Lab)
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Areas of research
Language Processing
How does the human mind process the natural language as we formulate and communicate our thoughts?
Language Acquisition
What cognitive processes are responsible for first and second language acquisition in children and adults?
Language Acquisition
What cognitive processes are responsible for first and second language acquisition in children and adults?
Language Change
How did languages change over the centuries of their history, and how can we reconstruct their ancient states?
Active research projects
Corpus-based grammar of Gothic
We are combining corpus and philological methods to reconstruct the functions of verb moods in 4th century Gothic, a crucial source of data on the history of Germanic languages.
High variability in L2 phonology acquisition
We are researching the role of high-variability input in the acquisition of second-language phonological contrasts and its implications for computer-assisted learning of pronunciation.