A5048790049- Language Development and Disorders
- Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Multilingual Education and Policy
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Language and cultural evolution
- Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Phonetics and Phonology Research
- Text Readability and Simplification
- Multiple Myeloma Research and Treatments
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Topic Modeling
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Career Development and Diversity
- Linguistic Variation and Morphology
University of the Philippines Manila
2023-2025
Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics
2025
University of Potsdam
2018-2024
Deutsche Post (Germany)
2023
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
2020-2023
Max Planck Society
2020-2021
Newcastle University
2019
University of Trento
2019
Macquarie University
2019
University of Groningen
2019
A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative the typological diversity present in world’s 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at alarming rate, and next 50 years represents last chance we have to document many them. Here, take stock 45 research published four main journals: Journal Child Language, First Language Acquisition Learning Development. We coded each article for several variables, including (1) participant...
ABSTRACT The benefits of parental educational involvement (PEI) are well documented in the literature, specifically on children's learning outcomes and social‐emotional development. Thus, it is important to explore factors that influence PEI. This paper a qualitative study motivators, facilitators, barriers PEI among low‐income parents Philippines. Through purposive sampling, 31 were engaged semi‐structured interviews or pakikipagkwentuhan , data collection method informed by indigenous...
Zheng Xin Yong, Ruochen Zhang, Jessica Forde, Skyler Wang, Arjun Subramonian, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Winata, Lintang Sutawika, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Yin Lin Tan, Long Phan, Rowena Garcia, Thamar Solorio, Alham Aji. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching. 2023.
Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes participant developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts global of participants time, calling into question generalizability our empirical foundation. We provide examples from study early child development significant epistemic ethical costs lack to demonstrate why greater...
Abstract We live in an unprecedented era of language endangerment and loss. In the midst this crisis, it is becoming more evident that psychological cognitive sciences know very little about how most world’s languages are acquired, represented, processed. Therefore, opportunity to understand our important defining species-specific trait being rapidly lost. Perspective, we highlight extent problem, focusing on a key group at heart transmission loss—child learners. show that, due sampling...
We report on two experiments that investigated the acquisition of Tagalog symmetrical voice system, a typologically rare feature Western Austronesian languages in which there are more than one basic transitive construction and no preference for agents to be syntactic subjects. In experiments, 3-, 5-, 7-year-old Tagalog-speaking children adults completed structural priming task manipulated word order, with uniqueness allowing us tease apart thematic role order from roles. Participants heard...
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/ Winter School Language Acquisition, free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, describe school, our experience organizing it, and lessons learned. The had diverse organizer team, composed 26 (17 from under represented areas: Subsaharan Africa, South Southeast Asia, Central America); volunteer with...
Over the last decade, there has been a slow but steady accumulation of psycholinguistic research focusing on typologically diverse languages. In this review, we provide an overview Philippine languages at sentence level. We first discuss grammatical features these that figure prominently in existing research. identify four linguistic domains have received attention from language researchers and summarize empirical terrain. advance two claims emerge across different domains: ( a) The...

 This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in Philippines, specifically that Tagalog-English bilingualism. More importantly, it describes process adapting Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS- MAIN) to Tagalog, basis Filipino, which is country’s national language. Finally, results a pilot study conducted on bilingual children and adults (N=27) are presented. The showed Story Structure similar across two languages develops significantly with...
Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic has massively limited how linguists can collect data, and out of necessity, researchers across several disciplines have moved data collection online. Here we argue that the rising popularity remote web-based experiments also provides an opportunity for widening context linguistic research by facilitating from understudied populations. We discuss collecting production adult native speakers Tagalog using unsupervised experiment. Compared to equivalent lab...
This article investigates the word order preferences of Tagalog-speaking adults and five- seven-year-old children. The participants were asked to complete sentences describe pictures depicting actions between two animate entities. Adults preferred agent-initial constructions in patient voice but not agent voice, while children produced mainly regardless voice. preference, despite lack a close link subject Tagalog, shows that this preference is merely syntactically-driven (subject-initial...
It is a common finding across languages that young children have problems in understanding patient-initial sentences. We used Tagalog, verb-initial language with reliable voice-marking system and highly frequent patient voice constructions, to test the predictions of several accounts been proposed explain this difficulty: frequency account, Competition Model, incremental processing account. Study 1 presents an analysis Tagalog child-directed speech, which showed dominant argument order...
Abstract We investigated whether Tagalog-speaking children incrementally interpret the first noun as agent, even if verbal and nominal markers for assigning thematic roles are given early in Tagalog sentences. asked five- seven-year-old adult controls to select which of two pictures reversible actions matched sentence they heard, while their looks were tracked. Accuracy eye-tracking data showed that agent-initial sentences easier comprehend than patient-initial sentences, but effect word...
Our original target article highlighted some significant shortcomings in the current state of child language research: a large skew our evidential base towards English and handful other Indo-European languages that partly has its origins lack researcher diversity. In this article, we respond to 21 commentaries on article. The both importance attention typological features environments contexts which are acquired, with many commentators providing concrete suggestions how address data skew....
A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative the typological diversity present in world’s 7,000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at alarming rate, and next 50 years represents last chance we have to document approximately half them. In current paper take stock 45 research published four main journals: Journal Child Language, First Language Acquisition, Learning Development. We coded each article for following variables:...
Abstract Western Austronesian languages have typologically rare but theoretically important voice systems that raise many questions about their learnability. While these been featured prominently in the descriptive and typological literature, data on acquisition is sparse. In current paper, we report a variationist analysis of Tagalog child-directed speech using newly collected corpus caregiver-child interaction. We determined constraints condition use, selection, argument position, thematic...
A survey of diversity in leading language acquisition journals revealed that only 2% the 7,000+ languages world are represented. With a long-term aim empowering researchers everywhere to contribute this literature, we organized First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/). was free 5-day virtual school facilitated interchange expertise among early career about all levels development monolingual and multilingual contexts. Our paper provides an...
Increasing geographical and cultural diversity in research participation has been a key priority for psychological researchers. In this article, we track changes participant developmental science over the past decade. These analyses reveal surprisingly modest shifts global of participants time, calling into question generalizability our empirical foundation. We provide examples from study early child development significant epistemic ethical costs lack to demonstrate why greater...
The COVID-19 pandemic has massively limited how linguists can collect data, and out of necessity, researchers across several disciplines have moved data collection online. Here we argue that this rising popularity remote web-based experiments also provides an opportunity for widening the context linguistic research by facilitating from understudied populations. We discuss collecting production adult native speakers Tagalog using unsupervised experiment. Compared to equivalent lab...
In the target article, Cristia, Foushee, Aravena-Bravo, Cychosz, Scaff, and Casillas (2022) convincingly show need to broaden current language acquisition research base, not only in linguistic diversity, but also terms of regions cultural groups studied. conducting understudied populations, such as rural settings, authors highlight importance using a multi-method approach. They present challenges adapting these methods new settings offer possible ways promote this type research. commentary,...
Western Austronesian languages, like Tagalog, have unique, complex voice systems that require the correct combinations of verbal and nominal markers, raising many questions about their learnability. In this article, we review experimental observational studies on both L1 L2 acquisition Tagalog. The reviewed reveal error patterns reflect nature Tagalog system. main goal article is to present a full picture commission errors in young Filipino children’s expression causation agency by...