Notes on Contributors

Teresa Bajo is Full Professor at the Department of Experimental Psychology of Granada University and head of the Memory and Language Research Group in the Mind, Brain and Behaviour Research Center. Her research is dedicated to the study of inhibitory control in language selection and in memory, cognitive processes in language translation, and interpreting.

Andrew Barss is a faculty member in the departments of Linguistics and the Program in Cognitive Science at the University of Arizona. He has conducted research on the syntax and semantics of anaphora, WH-movement, quantifier scope, and focus constructions.

Catherine T. Best is Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia. Her research and theory have focused on cross-language speech perception, and on the role of regional accent variation in native speech perception and spoken word recognition. She is widely known for her Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) and its more recent extension to second language (L2) learners, PAM-L2.

Ocke-Schwen Bohn is the professor and chair of English Linguistics at Aarhus University, Denmark. He received his Ph.D. from Kiel University (Germany) and spent his time as a post-doc working with James Flege at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. With funding from German and Danish research agencies, and in collaboration with American, Canadian, and Australian colleagues, Bohn's research focuses on the causes and characteristics of foreign accented speech, speech perception (in infants, cross-language, and second language acquisition), and bilingual memory. He has published widely in journals such as Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Journal of Phonetics, Memory, Speech Communication, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

David Braze is a linguist and senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories. He studies the cognitive structures and processes that support the human ability to fluidly assemble compositional meaning from more-or-less novel strings of words. Dr. Braze's investigations of reading comprehension explore how its cognitive bases (ability to comprehend speech, word knowledge, decoding skill, memory, executive function, and so on) are related to the ability to construct meaning from print, and how that may vary from one person to the next due to differences in biology or experience. Central to his research are questions of how lexical, grammatical, semantic and pragmatic processes interact with one another to yield the apprehension meaning from language, whether perceived by ear or by eye.

Trevor A. Brothers is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology at UC Davis. His research focuses on anticipatory processes in sentence and discourse comprehension.

Esteban Buz is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester in 2016. His graduate work was partly funded by a pre-doctoral National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (F31HD083020), a Provost Fellowship from the University of Rochester, and a National Institutes of Health training grant awarded to the Center for Language Sciences at the University of Rochester (T32DC000035). His research focuses on language production and specifically how and why speakers' vary their speech in and across different situations. Of special focus in this researcher is whether speech variability is partly for achieving and maintaining robust communication.

Krista Byers-Heinlein (B.A., McGill University; M.A., Ph.D., University of British Columbia) is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Concordia University, in Montreal, Canada. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Bilingualism and directs the Concordia Infant Research Lab. Her research investigates monolingual and bilingual language development in the early years.

Helen Smith Cairns is Professor Emerita, City University of New York, in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, Queens College, and the doctoral programs in Linguistics and in Speech, Hearing, and Language Sciences, at the CUNY Graduate Center. After receiving her Ph.D. in Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Processes at the University of Texas at Austin in 1970, she joined the Queens College faculty in 1971, where she taught until her retirement in 2003, having served as Department Chair and Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. She has pursued research in sentence processing and in first language acquisition, writing or editing six books (one co-authored with her husband, Chuck) and numerous articles and chapters. She is most proud of the students she has mentored over the years.

Laurie Beth Feldman is Professor of Psychology, at The University at Albany, State University of New York and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT. She completed her undergraduate degree at Wellesley College and graduate degrees at the University of Connecticut. The unifying theme to her program of research is the question of how a language user concurrently manages two linguistic codes. These interactions include two languages, two writing systems for one language, native and accented speech, speech and text, and emoticon and text. Much of this work has depended on collaboration with people in China, Germany, Israel, The Netherlands, Serbia, and Turkey and was supported by funds from NAS, NSF, NICHD, IARPA, and Fulbright. She is a Fellow of APS, and a member of the AAAS and the Psychonomic Society.

Fernanda Ferreira is Professor of Psychology and Member of the Graduate Group in Linguistics at the University of California, Davis. She obtained her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1988 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and prior to moving to UC Davis in 2015, she held faculty positions at Michigan State University and the University of Edinburgh. She has published over 100 papers and her research has been funded by the National Sciece Foundation and the National Institutes of Health in the United States, and the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom. She served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and she is currently an Associate Editor of Cognitive Psychology and of Collabra, an Open Access journal recently launched by University of California Press. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and is currently an elected member of the Psychonomic Society's Governing Board.

Eva M. Fernández received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2000. She is Professor at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) in the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders, and doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in the Programs in: Linguistics; Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages; and Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. Her research focuses on cross-linguistic language processing in monolingual and bilingual populations; she has additional research interests in measures of student success in higher education. Her work has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Education, and the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She currently serves as Assistant Provost at Queens College.

Julie Franck is Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche at the University of Geneva. Her work combines theoretical insights from linguistic theory and psycholinguistic experimental methods with the aim of identifying general principles of syntactic production and comprehension in adults and children. Her interest in exploring the relations between grammar and processing has developed through several topics including agreement, the acquisition of word order and subordination, the learning of hierarchical structure in artificial grammars, and the processing of islands.

Angela D. Friederici studied German, Romance languages, linguistics, and psychology in Bonn, Germany and Lausanne, Switzerland. She obtained her doctorate from Bonn University, Germany and conducted postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After being appointed full professor of Cognitive Psychology at the Free University Berlin, Germany, she was founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, where she is head of the Department of Neuropsychology. Her research is focused on the neuroscience of language. Angela D. Friederici is Vice President of the Max Planck Society, and honorary professor at the Universities of Leipzig, Potsdam and at the Charité Berlin.

Chiara Gambi is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the same university in 2013 and has subsequently been a post-doc with the Psycholinguistics Group at Saarland University before joining the Developmental Lab at the University of Edinburgh in 2014. She has published in Cortex, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, and in Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, Her research focuses on the relationship between comprehension and production, and particularly between the latter and prediction processes.

Merrill F. Garrett, Ph. D. University of Illinois, 1965. Professor Emeritus, University...