Lobo Language

Housed in @linguisticsunm, the Lobo Language Acquisition Lab is dedicated to illuminating the benefits of bilingualism & combatting linguistic bias.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Huge congratulations to lab member, Sarah Lease, whose article "Contextual frequency effects in children’s phonetic variation: The case of Spanish word-initial /d/" just came out in Language Variation and Change!🎊

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Huge congratulations to lab member Devin Tankersley who was one of four students to receive a Fulbright research award! Tankersley will be doing research in Taiwan, where he earlier received a master's degree and began learning Taiwan Sign Language (TSL).

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

The Spanish-English bilingualism research team is feeling very accomplished this semester having done a large amount of data collection, coding, and analysis! The team includes (left to right) Monica Perez, Naomi Shin, Jadin Moore, and Sarah Lease.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Meet Sharmaine! She has been a great contributor to the team doing research on child speech in Diné Bizaad.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

There was great linguistics representation at UROC! Audriana Sauceda presented "Combatting Linguistic Bias through Research and Community Outreach" and Melanie T'akhipaf Kirk-Lente and Joshua Birchall presented about the need for appropriate research tools in Pueblo communities.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Meet Monica! :) It is her second year with the lab, working on data collection and coding on demonstrative use in bilingual children and adults.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Congratulations to lab member Cormac League, who was awarded distinction for his MA thesis "Negation in Dene Languages"!

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

At our lab meeting today, lab members Evelyna Johnson, Devin Tankersley, Rikki Farrell & Kayleigh Russell presented "Grappling with variation and linguistic biases". This workshop was created for professionals who work with deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Great job team🎉

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Lab co-director Naomi Shin published a chapter called "Monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition and language change" in the book "Lifespan Acquisition and Language Change-Historical sociolinguistic perspectives". Congratulations Naomi!🎉

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Huge congratulations to lab member Eliza Forrest for defending their thesis on Friday! They passed with distinction following an amazing presentation!🎉

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Lab Co-Director Naomi Shin visited Louisiana State University to give a talk on children's acquisition of structured variation, and met with Dr. Janna Oetting and her D4 Child Language Lab. She also gave a research methods talk to LSU's Linguistics program. What an amazing trip!

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Lab members Elisabeth Baker Martinez and Fredy Mendieta-Rodríguez presented their dissertation research at UNM's Latin American & Iberian Institute on Friday, March 1.  Elisabeth and Fredy are both PhD Fellows this year. Congratulations, Elisabeth and Fredy!!

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

The UNM newsroom posted an article on the work of lab members Audriana Sauceda and Dawnadine Harvey! They are a part of the Teacher Outreach team, which does research on linguistic bias.
You can access the article through this link!
https://t.co/JapfNRKGS0

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

This week's lab member highlight is Rikki! Along with their work with Hand Talk and ASL, Rikki also holds lab hours and crochets awesome earrings!

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Alec Goldberg and Cormac League presented: “Dinék'ehiígo Ałchíni bich'į' Ya'áti'” on their research and findings with the Indigenous Child Language Research Center (ICLRC). They have been working with a language nest that is studying child directed speech with Navajo children.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Congratulations to lab members Dawnadine and Devin for presenting at the Diné Language Teacher Institute (DLTI) winter conference last month on January 13th! They discussed the topics of language variation and linguistic bias, and their implications for Navajo language learning.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

The Indigenous Child Language Research Center website is launched! There you can find more information about all the amazing work they are doing, and the Child Language Acquisition Symposium for Indigenous Communities that they will be holding this May! https://t.co/2KJqc8jksK

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Huge congratulations to the Indigenous Child Language Research Center (ICLRC) for launching their brand new website! You can learn more about their research projects and their team by clicking here: https://t.co/nVBJ4jtrKB

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Meet Ryan D Smith! He is a research assistant with the Indigenous Child Language Research Center (ICLRC). He studies gesture development in Navajo children and helps with administrative tasks. In his free time, Ryan enjoys drafting and woodworking, and restoring his classic car.

[Lobo Language @LoboLanguage]

Seven scholarly commentaries on Naomi Shin & Karen Miller's 2021 theoretical article titled "Children's acquisition of morphosyntactic variation" were published in the Language Learning and Development journal! Congratulations Naomi & Karen, links are available in our link tree!