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.

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!