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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.

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Alumni

Fatemeh  Abdollahi
Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State
Milton  Amaya
Graduate Student of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
Colleen  Balukas
Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish in the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,
University at Buffalo
Olivia  Barnum
Senior Healthcare Analyst at Analysis Group
Joseph  Bauman
Associate Teaching Professor of Spanish, Penn State
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
Nicole  Benevento
Associate Director, Articulation and Assessment at the University of Southern California
Trevor  Bero
Communications Specialist, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Grant M. Berry
Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science, Villanova University
Director, Language Use and Variation Lab
Kinsey  Bice
Language Data Researcher, Amazon
in Neuroengineering; Department of Psychology and Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences
University of Washington
Geraldine  Blattner
Associate Professor of French and Linguistics, Florida Atlantic University
Susan C. Bobb
Assistant Professor, Gordon College
Cari  Bogulski
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Christopher  Botero
Associate Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition, ​Augusta University
Mona Roxana  Botezatu
Assistant Professor of Communication Science and Disorders,
University of Missouri at Columbia
Josh  Brown
Associate Professor of German, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire
Ph.D. Candidate in Linguisitcs, Northwestern University
Eva María Suárez Büdenbender
Associate Professor of Spanish, Shepherd University
Federica  Bulgarelli
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Learning and Instruction, University at Buffalo
Cole  Callen
Postdoc at the Dept. of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, University of Minnesota
Estilita  Cassiani
Assistant Professor of Instruction in Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Northwestern University
Chris  Champi
Spanish Teacher, Head-Royce School
Lindsey  Chandler
Faculty Development Specialist for Digital Learning, University of Tennessee
Katie  Chapman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Arkansas
Assistant Professor, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Calvin University
Aleah Combs
Lab Manager, Aphasia Research Laboratory at Boston University
Research Scientist, Tobii
Abby  Cosgrove
Assistant Director of Human Imaging: Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
David  Counselman
Associate Professor of Spanish, Ohio Wesleyan University
Tiana Cowan
Postdoctoral Researcher at Boys Town National Research Hospital
Zahaira J. Cruz Aponte
MA student
Juliana Ivette Cruz Martínez
Graduate Teaching Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University
Carly Danielson
School Psychologist, The Hope Learning Centers
Megan Dunn Davison
Research Associate Professor, Center for Social Policy, The University of New Mexico
Johan  De La Rosa
Assistant Professor, Universidad del Norte
Isabel  Deibel
Polyglot Linguist Curriculum Designer at Duolingo
Danielle  Dickson
Former Postdoctoral Fellow in the BiLD lab
Amelia  Dietrich
Managing Editor, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad
Dominick  DiMercurio II
Data Scientist, NIMH Data Archive, Digital Infuzion
Melisa  Dracos
Assistant Professor, Baylor University