[ Second language psycholinguistics ]

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Talks and Posters

Selected Research Presentations (slides/handouts on request if not available here)

Chen, B. & Darcy, I. (2022, June). Effects of Auditory Context on Nonnative Recognition of Reduced Speech: Does Meaning Explain It All? [Poster]. LabPhon18, online.

Phillips, S.; Aguilar, A.; Alt, H.; Darcy, I. (2021, June) Pause for thought (groups): how non-native pausing behavior affects comprehensibility of L2 speech. Paper presented to the 2020 Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference (virtual meeting)

Scott, J. H. G. & Darcy, I. (2020, July) German unassimilated coronal nasals cause reduced inhibition. Poster presented to the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://labphon.org/labphon17/detailed-programme (virtual meeting).

Daidone, D., & Darcy, I. (2020, July) The relationship between second-language lexical encoding accuracy and individual differences in perception, cognitive abilities, and vocabulary size. Poster presented to the 17th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Vancouver, BC, Canada. https://labphon.org/labphon17/detailed-programme (virtual meeting).

Scott, J. H. G. & Darcy, I. (2020, April) Psycholinguistic evidence for underspecification: German Regressive Nasal Assimilation. Paper accepted at the 26th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC-26), Athens, GA. https://glac2020.weebly.com/ (Conference canceled)

Rocca, B., Hancock, Z., Lee, S. S., Darcy, I. (2020, April). Improving Pronunciation in Spontaneous Speech: A Comparison of Instructional Method [Paper presentation]. Paper accepted at the TESOL 2020 International Convention & English Language Expo, Denver, Colorado (Conference canceled).

Brian Rocca, Zoie Hancock, & Isabelle Darcy (2019, November) Comparing pronunciation teaching methods. Talk presented at INTESOL 2019, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Rocca, B., Hancock, Z., Lee, S. & Darcy, I. (2019, September) Improving pronunciation in spontaneous speech? A comparison of two instructional methods. Poster presented at PSLLT 2019, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Scott, J. H. G. & Darcy, I. (2019, May) The awfully elusive German language: In search of a property theory of mid and back continuants. Poster presented to the 25th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 25), Iowa State University, Iowa City, Iowa.

Park, H. & Darcy, I. (2018, September) Vowel Epenthesis in Korean English Learners' Pronunciation: At the crossroads of perception, mental lexicon, and cognitive abilities. Paper presented to the 10th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Gordon, J. & Darcy, I. (2018, September) Teaching Segmentals vs. Suprasegmentals: Different Effects of Explicit Instruction on Comprehensibility. Paper presented to the 10th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

Darcy, I., & Holliday, J. J. (2018, June) Teaching an old word new tricks: Phonological updates in the L2 mental lexicon. Paper presented to the 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Lisbon, Portugal.

Scott, J. H. G., & Darcy, I. (2018, May) Phonetic category revision in early L2 German dorsal fricatives. From na�ve listener to beginning learner. Paper presented to the 24th Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC 24). The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Maryland.

Hancock, Z. & Darcy, I. (2018, April) Powerful Pronunciation Instruction: A comparison of two instructional methods. Poster presented to the 2018 Learning Symposium ("Best Practices in Teaching Speaking and Pronunciation"). Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Plenaries and Keynotes

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Darcy, I. (2025, March) Title. Conference Name

Darcy, I. (2019, June) Improving pronunciation in spontaneous speech? A comparison of two instructional methods (with Zoie Hancock, Joshua Lee & Brian Rocca). Plenary address for the L2 Pronunciation Research Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice. University of Barcelona, Spain.

Darcy, I. (2017, September) "A psycholinguist walks into a classroom�": A road-map for bridging research and practice in pronunciation teaching. Plenary address to the 9th Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Sept. 1, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.

Darcy, I. (2015, June) Powerful and effective pronunciation instruction: how can we achieve it? Closing address for the MA Program in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, June 5, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Darcy, I. (2015, April) Lexical function of pitch in the first language shapes cross-linguistic perception of Thai tones. Invited keynote speaker. Mini Workshop on prosodic aspects of language learning. Institut für Linguistik, April 20, Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Darcy, I. (2014, November) Inhibiting your native language can help you learn the phonology of a second: The relationship between cognitive abilities and phonological skills. Invited keynote speaker. Workshop "Linguistic and psycholinguistic studies in L2 Phonology", November 22, Stuttgart, Germany.

Selected Invited lectures (slides/handouts on request)

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Darcy, I. (2022, February) Teaching an old word new tricks? Phonological updates in the bilingual mental lexicon. Invited talk for the Institute of Communication, Language and the Brain Speaker Series. Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Darcy, I. (2021, January) Qualtrics Essentials: A workshop. Second Language Studies Departmental Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Darcy, I., & Rocca, B. (2020, November) A Window into the Classroom: How Teachers Integrate Pronunciation Instruction. Second Language Studies Departmental Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Darcy, I. (2020, March) Learning to forget? Phonological updates in the bilingual mental lexicon. Invited talk for the Northwestern University Cognitive Science Program speaker series. March 3, 2020. Northwestern University, Evanston.

Rocca, B., Hancock, Z., Lee, S. & Darcy, I. (2020, March) Comparing pronunciation teaching methods: Communicative vs. non-communicative instruction. Second Language Studies Departmental Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Darcy, I., Hancock, Z., Rocca, B., & Lee, S. (2019, November) Improving pronunciation in spontaneous speech? A comparison of two instructional methods. Second Language Studies Departmental Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Darcy, I. (2019, April) Learning to forget: phonological updates in the bilingual mental lexicon. Invited speaker, 4th Second Language Acquisition Instruction & Research Workshop. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Darcy, I. (2019, April) Pronunciation teaching: what we know and what we'd like to know. Invited speaker, 4th Second Language Acquisition Instruction & Research Workshop. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Darcy, I., with Charles Lin, Chung-Lin Yang, Chien-Han Hsiao, & Joshua Lee (2018, November) When blue is a disyllabic word: An ERP study of perceptual epenthesis in the mental lexicon of second language learners. Language and Cognition Lab Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Darcy, I. & Holliday, J. J. (2018, September) Are phonological updates in the L2 mental lexicon perceptually driven? Invited paper, 10th annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. September 6-8, 2018

Darcy, I. (2018, June) Executive functions and L2 phonological development: a study in multiplicity. SimPhon.Net Workshop 5 ("Psycholinguistic, cognitive and neurolinguistic modeling in phonetics and phonology"), University of Stuttgart / Stuttgart Research Focus (SRF) Language and Cognition.

Dissertations completed in the lab

Brian Rocca (2025) 'Title'. Defense date: March 2025

Franziska Krüger (2024) 'From Bordeaux to Porto In Second Dialect Learning: The Acquisition Of A New Phonological Contrast By Upper Saxon German Speakers'. Defense date: December 2024

Matthew Ajibade (2024) 'The effects of native language experience on the phonological perception of complex labial-velar stops'. Defense date: August 2024

Ryan Lidster(2023) Investigating whether discriminability predicts lexical encoding accuracy for American English learners of phonemic length in second language Japanese - Defense date: May 2023

Danielle Daidone (2020) 'How learners remember words in their second language: The impact of individual differences in perception, cognitive abilities, and vocabulary size'. Defense date: April 2020

John Rothgerber (2020) 'The Influence of Native Language Phonotactics on Second Language Lexical Representation in Japanese Learners of English'. Defense date: April 2020

John H.G. Scott (2019) 'Phonemic and Phonotactic Inference in Early Interlanguage: Americans Learning German Fricatives in L2 Acquisition'. Defense date: May 3, 2019. Full text available on ProQuest under the number #13878342.

Chisato Kojima (2019) 'Lexical Encoding of Length Contrasts in Learners of Japanese as a Second Language'. Defense date: March 2019

Ala Simonchyk (2017) 'The interactions between perception, production, lexical encoding and orthography in the acquisition of palatalization in Russian'. Department of Second Language Studies, Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures Indiana University. Defense date: May 4, 2017

Joshua Williams (2017). '"Modality Adaptation Hypothesis": Neurocognitive alterations to novel visuospatial components of sign language during initial acquisition in adulthood'. Co-Chair with Prof. Sharlene Newman, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. Defense date: March 31, 2017.

Miguel Marquez-Martinez (2016). The Acquisition of French Nasal Vowels: From First Language Allophony To Second Language Phonological Contrast. (Co-Chair with Laurent Dekydtspotter). Departments of French and Italian, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: October 14, 2016

Aaron Albin (2015). Typologizing native language influence on intonation in a second language: Three transfer phenomena in Japanese EFL learners. Defense Date: May 14, 2015

Rob Bedinghaus (2015). The effect of exposure to phonological variation on perceptual categorization and lexical access in second language Spanish: the case of /s/-aspiration in Western Andalusian Spanish. Defense date: May 4, 2015

Vance Schaefer (2015). Influence of the first and second language on the perception of Thai tones. Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: October 5, 2015

Chung-Lin Yang (2015). Phonological variations and L2 word learning: The role of orthography in word recognition and production. Department of Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: March 10, 2015

Joshua Gordon (2015). Teaching and Learning L2 pronunciation: A closer look at classroom and extra-classroom factors in the development of intelligibility in ESL learners. Department of Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: December 17, 2014

Terrin Tamati (2014). Individual and Group differences in the perception of regional dialect variation in a second language. Departments of Linguistics, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University. Defense date: June 20, 2014

Lorenzo Garcia-Amaya (2012). Second language fluency and cognition: The study of Spanish second language development in an overseas immersion program and an at-home foreign language classroom. (Co-Chair with Kimberly Geeslin). Departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Second Language Studies, Indiana University. Defense date: April 23, 2012