People
The Center for Language Science (CLS) is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in language acquisition and bilingualism.
Our many national and international collaborations bring distinguished visitors to the Penn State campus, and provide opportunities for our students to gain valuable research experience at other universities both nationally and abroad. Navigate through the links to learn more about the individuals that form our community.
CLS Directors
Assistant Director, Center for Language Science
Associate Research Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Branch Coordinator, Bilingualism Matters at Penn State
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Professor of German and Linguistics
Director of Linguistics Program
Associate Director of the Center for Language Science
Director of Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
Director, Center for Language Science
Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
PI, NSF NRT program, Linguistic diversity across the lifespan: Transforming training to advance human-technology interaction
Faculty
Professor of Psychology, Linguistics, and Neuroscience
Faculty, Center for Healthy Aging
Co-Fund, Social Sciences Research Institute
Distinguished Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine
Founding Director, Center for Language Science
Associate Teaching Professor of Linguistics and African Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Linguistics Program
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Linguistics, and Neuroscience
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Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Hintz Family Endowed Chair in Children's Communicative Competence
Associate Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders and Linguistics
Staff
Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Lab Manager, The Dussias BrainTracking Lab
Graduate Students
Visiting Scholars
Affiliates
Associate Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, University of Florida at Gainesville
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Second Language Acquisition Lab
Director of Ph.d. in Educational Neuroscience (PEN), Gallaudet University
VL2 Co-Principal Investigator
Professor of Psychology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Software Engineer for Language Systems, Tobii Dynavox, Stockholm, Sweden
Former CLS Lab Manager
Professor of Instruction and Teacher Education, University of South Carolina
Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, NL
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Language Acquisition Lab, Second Language Acquisition Lab
Scientific Director, Ikerbasque Research Professor,
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language
Senior Researcher of Language and Communication at Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC),
Radboud University Nijmegen
Director at Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, University of Potsdam
Lecturer of Psycholinguistics, University of Glasgow
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, MuGlab: The MultiGrammar Lab
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso
Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ISÍ (I see) Eye-tracking laboratory
Associate Professor of Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, Bangor University
Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics,
University of Cambridge
Facultad de Comunicaciones, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín / Colombia
Professor, Speech Language, San Diego State University
Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
Executive Committee, Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience
Full Professor of Spanish and Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Professor of Linguistics
Principal investigator at CLS, Radboud University and the
Donders Institute at Radboud University
Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Cognition and Language Lab
Assistant Professor, Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Child Language and Cognition Lab
Professor and Chair of Linguistics, Northwestern University
Professor, University of California, San Diego
Hispanic Program Coordinator, ADRC
Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Spanish, Fordham University
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Bilingualism and Language Development Lab (BiLD Lab)
Professor of Psycholinguistics
Director/Head of Dept. of Lund University Humanities Lab, Lund University
Professor, National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning,
Beijing Normal University
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Covenant College
Professor of Semantics and Cognition, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Dept. of Linguistics and Basque Studies, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
Faculty of Arts, Psycholinguistics Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Department of Pragmatics of English
Adam Mickiewicz University
Professor of English Linguistics and English as a Second Language (ESL)
Rosalind Franklin Fellow, University of Groningen
Assistant Professor, Department of Language and Communication, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ISÍ (I see) Eye-tracking laboratory
Alumni
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
University at Buffalo
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Associate Director, Articulation and Assessment at the University of Southern California
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science, Villanova University
Director, Language Use and Variation Lab
Language Data Researcher, Amazon
in Neuroengineering; Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics, Florida Atlantic University
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Associate Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition, Augusta University
Assistant Professor of Communication Science and Disorders,
University of Missouri at Columbia
Associate Professor of Spanish, Shepherd University
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Learning and Instruction, University at Buffalo
Postdoc at the Dept. of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Northwestern University
Faculty Development Specialist for Digital Learning, University of Tennessee
Assistant Director of Human Imaging: Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
Graduate Teaching Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University
Research Associate Professor, Center for Social Policy, The University of New Mexico
Managing Editor, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
