Biography:
Hello! My name is Jasmine, and I am a third-year Schreyer scholar with double majors in psychology and Spanish. Currently, I work as a research assistant in the Bilingualism and Linguistic Diversity (BiLD) Lab, and as a Spanish tutor for Penn State Learning. Outside of school, I enjoy writing novels, playing guitar, and baking the occasional batch of cookies.
I am traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to investigate how Puerto Rican Spanish speakers process native Spanish accents that match or mismatch their own. Through Dr. Rosa Guzzardo Tamargo's lab, I will measure accented speech processing with a combination of behavioral and EEG tasks. My research will expand upon the interlanguage speech intelligibility benefit (ISIB) put forth by Bent and Bradlow (2003), which proposes the advantage of a shared native language in nonnative speech, but does not consider the advantage of a shared native accent within the same native language.