We are thrilled to announce that Dr Anthony Fauci is the 2021 Beatty Lecturer! The acclaimed immunologist and champion of science-driven policy-making during the COVID-19 pandemic will deliver the virtual lecture McGill University Oct 1👏mcgill.ca/x/ZUG #Beatty2021 McGill Alumni

did you know children can learn two languages without confusion or developmental delay? pass it on. i think every day about how this wasn't common knowledge in the late 80s and how i grew up without spanish because of it.

Important work by Avleen K Mokha | Mirabel on language development and neurodevelopmental disorders

Our new Letter to the Editors of Psychological Science: What Have We Learned About Bilingualism? Regarding Nichols et al. (2020). with @gigi_luk, janver, PoLaR Lab and John Grundy doi.org/10.25384/SAGE.…

If you understand but cannot speak a second/heritage language, you are bilingual. Stop putting yourself down for not speaking the language because trust me, you are very much distinct from a monolingual who experiences the world through only one language. #ReceptiveBilinguals

A call to action by @mehrgoltiv & @debra_titone for researchers (esp. psycholinguists & cognitive) to more fully embrace social experiences as part of theory and experiment, incl. a framework and examples on how to do so osf.io/gm2fn/

Excited to share my latest paper w/ @debra_titone and Brendan Johns on Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology! Corpus-based measures of contextual and semantic diversity are better predictors of the lexical organization of multiword and idiomatic phrases than frequency dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep000…

an important paper on contrast coding! also, i'm happy to see Bilingualism:Language and Cognition (CUP Linguistics), #eyetracking, and #individualdifferences doing comparatively well

no, in bilingual research you don't need a monolingual control

New paper with @debra_titone, Junyan Wei and Jason Gullifer is out on Memory & Cognition! Our eye-tracking data of English-L1 English-French bilinguals reading language-switched idioms suggest a primary role of direct retrieval in idiom recognition. link.springer.com/article/10.375…

We're pleased to see our consensus study on quantifying #bilingual experience in children available online. This was a collaborative effort of 132 #researchers, #teachers and #SLTs from 29 countries. The paper is freely available here: doi.org/10.1017/S13667…

Excited to be presenting my first grad school poster at INSNA #Sunbelt2022! 🌱

Stop by my poster (#77) at #ecvp2022 from 11-12.30 today 👁‍🗨 Friend or Foe: The Role of Semantically Related Distractors during Bilingual Object Search 👁‍🗨 Melissa Vo @debra_titone @SceneGrammarLab

I will be recruiting graduate students for September 2023! If you're fascinated by the bouba/kiki effect, or how the feeling of a word can affect its meaning (looking at you "moist"), let's figure it out together at Carleton University! Get in touch to learn more! (Please RT!🙏)

You've probably installed a bunch of packages in R. But did you know they are a fantastic way to organise your own analysis? A thread on how to write your own package in R. #rstats #coding #datascience