Research

Centre-funded Projects

List of Projects:

  • Acquisition of the English past tense markers by native adult speakers of Mandarin and Turkish.
  • A collaborative environment for functional neuroimaging of language.
  • A longitudinal study of language and reading development of students in native language and second language school programs.
  • A neuroimaging study of speech production and perception in congenitally blind and sighted speakers.
  • Acquisition of relevance implicatures as a window into the child’s ability to engage in pragmatic reasoning.
  • Audio-visual and contextual enhancement in the comprehension of phonetic and prosodic cues in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment."
  • Bilingual acquisition and infant development.
  • Brain signatures of 'nativeness' in native-like second language.
  • Broca’s aphasia and specific language processing mechanisms.
  • Centralised recruiting system for the McGill Infant Research Group.
  • Conversational profiles between infants and caretakers: Relations to interactional synchrony, developing attention skills, and speech competence.
  • Critical periods for acquiring language.
  • Dimensions of semantic processing: A combined fMRI/ERP study.
  • Electrophysiological investigations of human language.
  • Electrophysiological Studies of Discourse Comprehension.
  • Elucidating the role of the right cerebral hemisphere in contextualized language.
  • Event-related fMRI and brain potential imaging of sentence comprehension in young and older adults.
  • Examining nature of grammatical processing and mechanisms of language development, through sentence comprehension tasks administered to children, second language learners, and individuals with language impairment.
  • Functional imaging of conversational interactions.
  • Investigating lexical access and reading comprehension in normally developing and at-risk second language learners.
  • Investigating the organization of pragmatic language following right-brain-damage.
  • Investigating the perception of the dental-alveolar contrast by 4 groups of subjects, monolingual English, monolingual French, simultaneous bilingual English and French and early L2 learners of French using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
  • Language learners in contact: Linguistic and social development in two-way immersion.
  • Language processing in young and old bilingual and monolingual adults.
  • Maintenance fund for equipment and training of new users in the McGill Language Acquisition Lab.
  • Mapping the neural basis of sensorimotor adaptation in speech production.
  • Meaning retrieval, meaning storage and meaning representation in the brain.
  • Neural activation of vocal emotions in speech.
  • Neural systems underlying early language experience.
  • Operational support for the McGill Language Acquisition Lab and the McGill Infant Research Group.
  • Pragmatic language understanding in adults with right hemisphere damage and acquired brain injury.
  • Prosody perception in Alzheimer’s disease.
  • Software for studying infant language.
  • Spoken language production and perception: Cortical sensorimotor areas and sensorimotor organization.
  • Syntax and phonology and their interaction in L2 acquisition.
  • The creation of video-stimuli for a study of bilingual children's acquisition of word order in French & English.
  • The emergence of the vowel system in deaf children after cochlear implant.
  • The impact of semantic context on the initial activation of word meanings during spoken language comprehension.
  • The influence of early episodes of otitis media on infant speech perception and speech production.
  • The mental representation of movements, or motor imagery.
  • The neural bases of prosodic processing.
  • The neural basis of conversational synchronies
  • The neural processes involved in idiom processing in English-French bilinguals.
  • The relationship between phonemic perception, speech production and speech motor learning in children with primary developmental speech sound disorder.
  • The relationship between working memory and temporal aspects of L1 conversational speech.
  • The role of prosody in first and second language comprehension.
  • The role of the SMA in spoken language production: A combined transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electroencephalographic (EEG) study.