 Fabulous news here, just a few weeks ahead of the lab's anniversary in November: Our new revamped and updated website under the Indiana University domain name is finally working again! After a long time spent familiarizing myself with the new web content management system, and with the help of UITS, we managed to mostly recreate the prior site. That was a big project, thank you all for helping me with it!
You'll find it here: https://psycholinguistics.indiana.edu/. Content across both sites is mostly parallel. This site on Weebly has broader content, and will probably be the most recent, in case there are discrepancies across both. Happy browsing! Hello everyone and welcome to the Fall 2025 semester! Our lab meetings will be resuming - and the first one is TONIGHT at 4:30 pm in Ballantine as usual (in the lab). We'll be discussing the lab's various projects for the coming academic year, celebrating summer progress and outlining goals for the Fall. Make sure to bring any other topic that's relevant for you. Bring your planners, we'll aim to get a schedule going! See you there...  Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Hanson on a wonderful hybrid defense! Great work and warm wishes for your new job at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash starting.... next Monday! :) Here is a picture of the committee and Stacey after the results were announced, with committee members Elena and Isabelle remotely shown on top.  We are pleased to share that our latest paper, by Bihua Chen and Isabelle Darcy is now out in Journal of Phonetics! We examine how people recognize reduced speech in L1 and L2, and what is the role played by contextual information (meaning) vs. auditory information in addition to just the meaning. The download link is: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1lRI3Lix~1H-u This is a personalized URL providing 50 days' free access to the article, until September 03, 2025. Check it out! And as always, feel free to e-mail with questions/comments. Here is the doi link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2025.101433  The first page of Chen & Darcy (2025) in Journal of Phonetics
 Our old website is down... For about 2-3 weeks now, most websites at Indiana University have been down - the picture above shows you the current status of my lab's website! The IT department is attempting to restore service, but they've decided to rebuild their hosting servers. Not a small undertaking! As a result, our old beloved website (still entirely written in html by me!) will probably have to be retired, because the new system won't allow it. While very unfortunate, a change like this had been coming for a long time. It is sad to see the old website gone, but I believe it has been archived. (I'll post a link once I find it. And I have the files, of course). But I do not know whether I can re-make on a different platform yet. We will see! In the meantime, this website here with Weebly will serve as a replacement. Stay tuned and please keep checking in on us!
We're delighted to report that Bihua Chen and I. Darcy just got a paper accepted in Journal of Phonetics!! Congratulations Bihua! What a great achievement! The paper will be out soon. Its title is "Effects of Sentential Context on Nonnative Recognition of Reduced Speech: Does Meaning Explain It All?" In that study, we explore the processing mechanisms L2 listeners use to handle reduced speech, which - despite being extremely common in everyday speech - is quite challenging to decode. We'll post here links to the paper and to the data as soon as we can!
The lab is delighted to announce another PhD! Hunter Brakovec successfully passed his doctoral defense today! His dissertation is entitled Third Language Transfer and Development, and is available from his website [LINK]. Check it out! Congratulations Hunter!! Click here for the official announcement and abstract.
On Friday, March 28th, Brian Rocca defended his doctoral dissertation entitled "The effects of lexical characteristics, phonetic categorization, and vocabulary size on language learners' phonolexical representations: A lexical friction account"
The defense itself and the Q&A / discussion in the audience were a rousing success! Congratulations on a job really well done, Brian! And good luck in your new lab at Northwestern! In early January, we published a State of the Scholarship paper in SSLA! This is the result of several years of work, which started during a wonderful workshop in Marseilles, in May 2022. We're happy with the results - let us know what you think!
In other news, Isabelle will be at the 47th German Linguistics Society Conference, taking place in early March at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz -- her alma mater!! She's very excited about this! :) Her invited talk is entitled: Learning the sounds of words in a second language: Exploring individual differences and modulating factors at the phonology-lexicon interface. Here's a photo of the campus main entrance:  The main campus entrance -- so many memories! |
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