Small steps, consistently, and even if they "feel" invisible, are the best way forward. They're working all right, and we need to trust them. Happy New Year everyone! And for this year, "keep calm and carry on" :-) 
Very best wishes to all for a rich, healthy and successful year!

2026 will have many smaller and bigger changes and adventures in store for us. Let's see where this year will take us! ​

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.

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 It is sad to see the old website gone, but I believe it has been archived.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.