Lab Manager Syelle Graves is pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at the Graduate Center, and she is a Chancellor’s Teaching Fellow at Hunter College. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY New Paltz with a degree in French and linguistics. Her main research interests are innateness and semantics of first [...]
Research Assistant Erin Quirk is a Ph.D. student in Linguistics at The CUNY Graduate Center. Her primary areas of interest are first and second language acquisition and computational linguistics. Currently, she is working on a project that investigates the grammars of children and the adults they speak with through computational [...]
Research Assistant Paul Feitzinger is LARC’s resident software developer and general technologist, and has a strong passion for open source software. He is currently re-implementing some of the LARC’s experiments as web applications and programmatically gluing pieces of the lab together in Good Ways (he hopes). Paul is currently pursuing [...]
Intern Alina Samusevich is currently studying psychology and Spanish at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College. She is currently working as an intern at LARC on various projects. She is also conducting an honors thesis examining the bilingual Stroop task in heritage Russian speakers. She will graduate next year [...]
Intern Dorota Botwina is pursuing a Master’s degree in general psychology at the Graduate Center. She is also currently working on a second Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French at Hunter College. Her research interests include second language acquisition and bilingualism. Her current research investigates ego depletion and its effect [...]