Katie is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her B.A. in Brain and Cognitive Science at the University of Rochester and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Georgetown University. She is pictured here with her daughters Joan (5) and Dory (9 months).

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Alessandra Pintado-Urbanc is the current lab manager of the Child Language Lab. She graduated with a B.A. in Linguistics from The University of Pennsylvania in December 2022. She is particularly interested in psycholinguistics and language acquisition. Born into a trilingual household, Alessandra has always enjoyed learning new languages and traveling!

Yiran Chen is a fifth-year PhD student in the Child Language Lab. She graduated with a B.S. in Psychology, Child Studies and French from Vanderbilt University. She is interested in various topics in psycholinguistics and language acquisition, particularly the acquisition of linguistic variation. In her free time, Yiran enjoys making music and food.

Daoxin is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics. Before coming to Penn, she earned her BA in English Language from Tsinghua University. She uses various methods to investigate the acquisition of linguistic generalizations: How do learners identify the regular rules in their language in the presence of irregular items? How do they make use of the input data available to them? Why do children seem to be better at learning the rules than adults?