Biography:
Hello, my name is Carly Levy and I am a current student at Penn State majoring in Linguistics. My hometown is in Bucks County, PA, where I love to go for hikes, cook at the local cafe, sing and listen to music, and watch movies with my family. At college, I have been a research assistant in Dr. Carrie Jackson’s second language acquisition lab for three semesters now and plan to go onto graduate school researching psycho- and sociolinguistics.
Project Summary
I am beyond ecstatic to go to Braunschweig this summer to research how American-accented German affects an L1 German listener’s ability to anticipate the upcoming words of a sentence before actually hearing them. My lab partner and I will examine this concept, also known as prediction, through eye-tracking and the visual-world-paradigm in hopes of understanding if accents and a person's exposure and experience with L2 speakers (and even attitudes towards them) affect their ability to engage in predictive processing.