Rita Kaushanskaya, Ph.D.
Education
B.A. University of California-Berkeley
M.A. Northwestern University
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Teaching
CD 240 Language Development in Children and Adolescents
CD 455H Undergraduate Honors in Communicative Disorders
CD 709 Language Problems of School Age Children and Adolescents
Interests
Rita’s research focuses on second-language acquisition and bilingualism in children and adults. The overall goal of her research program is to uncover the nature and the developmental trajectory of cognitive mechanisms that underlie language learning. Her work examines how monolingual and bilingual children and adults learn words in a new language, and how bilinguals manage their two languages when they must speak or read in one language only. Currently, Rita is exploring links between vocabulary learning and literacy in monolingual and bilingual children. Her research takes place in the Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Laboratory, housed in the Goodnight Hall and the Waisman Center.
Highlighted Activities
Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (2007). Age-of-acquisition effects in the development of a bilingual advantage for word learning. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press; Somerville, MA.
Marian, V., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). Language context guides memory content. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 925-933.
Kaushanskaya, M., & Marian, V. (2007). Non-target language recognition and interference in bilinguals: Evidence from eye tracking and picture naming. Language Learning, 57, 119-163.
Marian, V., Blumenfeld, H.K., & Kaushanskaya, M. (2007). The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (LEAP-Q): Assessing language profiles in bilinguals and multilinguals, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 940-967.
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Department of Communicative Disorders
University of Wisconsin
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Madison, WI 53706