Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) SITE SMA # 1659607
Director: Prof. Isabelle Barrière, Ph.D.
Long Island University/Brooklyn Campus
Co-Director: Prof. Jonathan Nissenbaum, Ph.D.
Brooklyn College/CUNY
Deadline for Application: April 15, 2018
Overview
The REU Site Intersection of Linguistics, Language and Culture Program is recruiting talented undergraduate students residing in the NY area from (but not limited to) historically disadvantaged groups to partake in a part-time year-long program to engage in research on language(s) and benefit from workshops that will help you prepare for the next step in your educational journey.
List of Mentors and Research Sites
To successfully complete the program, students will devote 6 to 8 hours a week in the Fall and Spring semester and 15-18 hours a week in the summer to a research project with one of the participating mentors and at one of the research location (see list below). REU Students are awarded a stipend of $6,500 a year for participation in the program: $2,000 for 12 weeks in the Fall semester, $2,000 for 12 weeks in the Spring semester and $2,500 in the Summer (June and first week of July) to compensate for their work.
Mentors |
Areas of Specialization |
Research sites (websites when available) |
Prof. Isabelle Barrière |
Acquisition of word and sentence-structure in monolingual and bilingual toddlers and preschoolers, emergent literacy |
YVY Research Institute (http://www.yeled.org/res.asp) and LIU/Downtown Brooklyn |
Prof. Tempii Champion |
Development of discourse skills in linguistically and culturally diverse populations |
LIU/Downtown Brooklyn |
Prof. Daniel Kaufman
|
Documentation and analyses of endangered and undocumented languages |
Endangered Language Alliance http://elalliance.org/ |
Prof. Laura Koenig |
The principles that underpin speech production across different languages |
Adelphi, Long Island and Haskins Laboratory http://www.haskins.yale.edu/ |
Prof. Nelson Moses |
Atypical speech-language- and communication in school age children; the relation between language and cognitive development |
LIU/Downtown Brooklyn |
Prof. Jonathan Nissenbaum |
Interface between sentence structure (syntax) and meaning (semantics) and speakers’ knowledge of sounds (phonetic). |
BC Linguistics Lab |
Prof. Valerie Shafer |
The perception, representation and processing of sounds and words and their neurological underpinnings |
Developmental Neurolinguistics Laboratory (http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Speech-Language-Hearing-Sciences/Research-Labs/Developmental-Neurolinguistics-Laboratory) |
Prof. Martha Tyrone |
Sign language and gesture production in healthy and impaired deaf and hearing individuals; speech acoustics and articulation in toddlers, and instrumented measures of gestures and speech prosody in adults. |
LIU. Downtown Brooklyn http://www.liu.edu/brooklyn/slhc and Haskins Laboratory http://www.haskins.yale.edu/ |
Prof. Gina Youmans |
Acquired disorders including in individuals with Aphasia, Parkinson, Alzheimer; Pragmatic impairments |
LIU/Downtown Brooklyn |
1. Eligibility Requirement
To be eligible, students must fulfill all of the following requirements by the start of the REU program:
Completed applications should be submitted via email to Intersectionlinglangcult@gmail.com no later than the date listed above.
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