LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION LAB

We are a Psycholinguistics lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso (PI Iva Ivanova). We study the mental processes of language use in conversation. We specialize on (bilingual) language production, conversational alignment and language control. We do experimental and corpus work, including measuring characteristics of spontaneous speech. We are funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. 

We are part of an interdisciplinary research group at UTEP, the Consortium for Scientific Research on Bilingualism, and we have collaborators from around the world. 

We are enjoying our unique location on the (quite literally) US-Mexico border - nearly everyone is bilingual (on a continuum), and it is a culturally and historically fascinating region. 

The Language and Communication Lab is accepting graduate students for 2024. Please contact Iva (imivanova AT utep DOT edu) with inquiries. We look forward to welcoming you to El Paso and the lab!