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Language Acquisition Laboratory/ Bilingualism Laboratory Linda D. Jarmulowicz, PhD is associate professor and interim dean of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She joined the faculty in 2001, after receiving her PhD in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the
linguistic rhythm, literacy and bilingualism. She is interested in language processing in all its forms, and is particularly interested in the intersections of different areas of language development, such as phonology
City University of New York in 2000. Prior to that, she earned an MA in Speech-Language Pathology from Lehman College in 1997 and has an undergraduate degree in Linguistics and Psychology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She is a member of ASHA special interest groups 1, 10 and 14 (Language Learning and Education, Issues in Higher Education and Cultural and Linguistic Diversity), the Linguistics Society of America (LSA), the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). She has been on the editorial board of reviewers for Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, and has reviewed for numerous journals. Dr. Jarmulowicz currently directs the Language Acquisition Laboratory and co-directs the Bilingualism Laboratory with Dr. Kim Oller.
and morphology, and the influence of language on literacy development. From 2005 to 2011, Dr. Jarmulowicz co-directed an NIH-funded project Bilingual Phonology and Literacy (co-PIs: D.K. Oller, and E.H. Buder) which collected longitudinal data on over 300 children. From 2010-15, she directed a personnel preparation grant supported by the U.S. Department of Education to train and support speechlanguage pathology and audiology
Research Interests Dr. Jarmulowicz directs the Language Acquisition & Analysis Laboratory, where she conducts research in the areas of lexical organization, derivational morphology, 26
students to work with interpreters to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services to non-English speaking children and their families. Current Research and Applications Dr. Jarmulowicz focuses on two primary branches of research — prosody and literacy and the language/development of young English learners. In the area of prosody and literacy, she is particularly interested in the morphophonology of derived words and how production of
