• AN INVESTIGATION OF NEURAL MECHANISMS UNDERLYING VERB MORPHOLOGY DEFICITS IN APHASIA 

  Pifer, Madeline R (2019)

  Agrammatic aphasia is an acquired language disorder characterized by slow, non-fluent speech that include primarily content words. It is well-documented that people with agrammatism (PWA) have difficulty with production ...

• Role of Processing Speed and Cognitive Control during Word Retrieval in Persons with Aphasia 

  Gehman, Megan (2019)

  It is possible that word retrieval is not associated with general processing speed but is associated with a highly specific cognitive process - that of inhibiting competing alternative words. This study aims to measure ...

• INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF PARENTAL QUESTION INPUT ON CHILDREN WITH ASD 

  Curdts, Lydia Leslie (2019)

  The current study analyzed individual mechanisms of language gains following the Solomon et al. (2014) randomized control trial (RCT) of the Play and Language for Autistic Youngsters (PLAY) Project, a DIR/Floortime based ...

• The effect of child gender on parental nonverbal communication 

  Booth, Tiara (2019)

  Previous work has studied parental verbal communication and found differences based on child gender. The current study was designed to better understand any differences in maternal nonverbal communication based on child ...

• Understanding and remembering pragmatic inferences 

  Kowalski, Alix (2018)

  This dissertation examines the extent to which sentence interpretations are incrementally encoded in memory. While traditional models of sentence processing assume that comprehension results in a single interpretation, ...

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