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Aug 2, 2023
NSF Awards Jason Bishop Over $400K for a Giant Speech Database
The public database will allow researchers to study differences in people’s speech patterns and what causes them.
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Jul 19, 2023
Graduate Center Honors Psycholinguist Susan Nittrouer
Alumna dedicates her career to help children overcome language-learning difficulties such as hearing loss and dyslexia.
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Apr 26, 2023
Three Graduate Center Professors Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Linda Martín Alcoff, Ofelia García, and Virginia Valian join the prestigious honorary society.
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Nov 9, 2022
Professor Barbara Weinstein Honored by Columbia Teachers College
She is recognized as a trailblazer in addressing hearing loss in older adults.
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Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences

Bilingualism, Executive Function, and Beyond: Questions and insights
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019
Sekerina, I. A., Spradlin, L., & Valian, V. V. (Eds.) (2019).
The study of bilingualism has charted a dramatically new, important, and exciting course in the 21st century, benefiting from the integration in cognitive science of theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, and cognitive psychology (especially work on the higher-level cognitive processes often called executive function or executive control). Current research, as exemplified in this book, advances the study of the effects of bilingualism on executive function by identifying many different ways of being bilingual, exploring the multiple facets of executive function, and developing and analyzing tasks that measure executive function. The papers in this volume (21 chapters), by leading researchers in bilingualism and cognition, investigate the mechanisms underlying the effects (or lack thereof) of bilingualism on cognition in children, adults, and the elderly. They take us beyond the standard, classical, black-and-white approach to the interplay between bilingualism and cognition by presenting new methods, new findings, and new interpretations.
Published May 2019

The Handbook of Psycholinguistics
Incorporating approaches from linguistics and psychology, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics explores language processing and language acquisition from an array of perspectives and features cutting edge research from cognitive science, neuroscience, and other related fields.
The Handbook provides readers with a comprehensive review of the current state of the field, with an emphasis on research trends most likely to determine the shape of psycholinguistics in the years ahead. The chapters are organized into three parts, corresponding to the major areas of psycholinguists: production, comprehension, and acquisition. The collection of chapters, written by a team of international scholars, incorporates multilingual populations and neurolinguistic dimensions. Each of the three sections also features an overview chapter in which readers are introduced to the different theoretical perspectives guiding research in the area covered in that section.
Timely, comprehensive, and authoritative, The Handbook of Psycholinguistics is a valuable addition to the reference shelves of researchers in psychology, linguistics, and cognitive science, as well as advanced undergraduates and graduate students interested in how language works in the human mind and how language is acquired.
Published October 2017
Wiley, 2017

Language Development and Disorders in Spanish-speaking Children
Springer, 2017
Richard G. Schwartz and Alejandra Auza Benavides
Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.
Published June 2017