Cynthia was awarded the Institute of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) summer graduate fellowship. During this summer fellowship, she will be working on writing a NIH grant proposal to support her dissertation work.

Undergraduate honors student, Devon Murphy, will be attending the University of Connecticut School of Law in Fall 2022.

Lab coordinator, Juandiego Carmona, will be attending Teachers College, Columbia University, for his PhD in School Psychology starting Fall 2022.

Several members of the lab recently got accepted to present at the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2022 Annual Meeting being held May 11-14 in Austin, Texas. See poster titles below!

• Autistic individuals may see emotions differently: How gradable adjectives can be used to determine emotional recognition- Devon Murphy, Lee Tecoulesco, Juandiego Carmona, Peter deVilliers, Letitia Naigles
• Differentiating among low, medium, and high “um” users with ASD and ADHD- Cynthia Boo, Nancy McIntyre, Peter Mundy, Letitia Naigles
• Identifying profiles of grammatical production in children on the autism spectrum via cluster analysis- Amanda Mankovich, Kacie Wittke, Jessica Blume, Ann Mastergeorge, Alexandra Paxton, Letitia Naigles
• Internal state language production in storybook versus personal narratives in TD children and children with ASD- Juandiego Carmona, Cynthia Boo, Letitia Naigles
• Investigating the relationship between early joint attention and later usage of verb subcategories in ASD- Kaya LeGrand, Julia Parish-Morris, Letitia Naigles

Our own, Dr. Letty Naigles, has been invited to give a talk for the online workshop: Jabberwocky Words in Linguistics, hosted by the University of Bucharest and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.                               

Cynthia received a certificate of achievement for having the best graduate research poster at the Annual Psychological Sciences Poster Night held on November 3rd. Well done!

Professor

Lila R. Gleitman

(1929 – 2021)

In 2008, Lila and I (Letty) were chatting at BUCLD and I told her that my high-school aged twins were ‘studying Julius Caesar’.  What I meant was that they were reading the Shakespeare play, but she assumed I meant they were reading Caesar’s Gallic Wars–in Latin.   That was Lila, always zeroing in on something language-related, and we had a good chuckle about yet another example of referential ambiguity. So when, in 2009, BUCLD held a 80th birthday celebration for Lila, I vowed to create a Latin Oration in her honor.  The result–which benefited greatly from Andrea Calabrese’s tutelage–can be seen below, followed by the translation.

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Cynthia, Letty, and colleagues recently published an article in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Congrats! Click here to view the article.

Cynthia successfully defended her Masters thesis on July 29, 2021. Her thesis was titled, “Structural and Pragmatic Language Abilities of Children with ASD, ADHD, and Comorbid Symptoms of Both during Conversational Discourse in a Virtual Reality Task”. Hooray, Cynthia Boo, M.A., M.S.!

Lee Tecoulesco, Cynthia Boo, and former lab members Manya Jyotishi, PhD, and Jenna Lame all presented at this years International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) conference held July 15-23, 2021. Bravo!

Screenshot of the Generics symposium Q & A.

Grad Lab members met at Letty’s house this past week to celebrate the end of the semester..in person!! Everyone in attendance was fully vaccinated.