Isabelle Darcy: Cognitive Science Program: Indiana University Bloomington
Field of study
- Psycholinguistics, phonology, native and non-native speech processing, word recognition, first and second language acquisition of phonology, foreign accent.
Education
- Ph.D., Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France and Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2003
- M.A., German and Romance Linguistics and Literature
Research interests
- I obtained a PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (France) and from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz (Germany) in 2003.
- Studying the psycholinguistics of language processing and learning can reveal how humans acquire a new language system and establish long-term memory representations of this new knowledge. Within the Department of Second Language Studies, my research program focuses on the psycholinguistic investigation of how multilingual people acquire the phonological systems of their various languages. The research we conduct in my lab, the Second Language Psycholinguistics Lab, covers all domains of phonology and how they are acquired and represented in the bilingual's mind. At the moment, we are particularly interested in understanding how phonological knowledge interacts with word recognition and word encoding in the mental lexicon of bilinguals; another area of interest is the impact of individual differences in executive functions on phonological processing and acquisition.