Acronyms
SES
Socioeconomic Status
Dr. Raza
These children have less vocabulary skills compared to their peers
Two common indicators used to measures SES
Maternal education & household income
AAE
African American English
Who presented on Bilingual language lab at KU?
Dr. Rojas
This language disorder clusters in families and there is emerging evidence for to identification of a specific gene.
Genetics in SLI
Three methodological approaches to studying morphosyntactic features of SLI and AAE
Contrastive, non-contrastive, and patterns & system
L1 & L2
Language 1 and language 2 (first language and second language)
Who presented on brain recognition of abstract categories
Stephen Politzer-Ahles
This is a response in the brain when noticing sounds at an unconscious level.
MMN (Brain response and linguistic category)
L1 Persian speakers and L2 Turkish speakers showed similar preferences for this part of language
Verb marking
MMN
Mismatch negativity
Who presented on the effects of animacy information on the processing of 3rd person plural agreement in L2 Turkish?
Munir
A systematic, rule-governed dialect
AAE
This is a promising gene found to be associated with SLI
BUD13
SNP (genetics)
Single nucleotide polymorphism
Who presented on accented speech exposure in bilingual children
Dialectal differences as determined by a change in VOT and F0 differing by region and possibly age.
Tracking the spread of sound change within populations of younger speakers (Dr. Holliday)
Three types of Korean stops
Fortis, lenis, aspirated